Episode 9: Italian American Protection Magic with Marybeth Bonfiglio and Kara Wood

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In this episode we share our experience and perspectives on Italian American protection magic as an ancestral practice and how that relates to living in the world today. My guests for this episode are Marybeth Bonfiglio and Kara Wood.

MaryBeth is a writer and a practitioner of ancestral folk magic of her ancestors (from Sicily and mainland Italy). She is deeply devoted to knowing and understanding her roots and learning their ancient and not-so-ancient ways of being together, and with the land. She also gathers people on her ancestral land of Sicily to anchor in the earth, village practices, food stories, ancestral arts, dance, music, and celebration—all within community.

To learn more about her work: @marybethbonfiglio and @radicisiciliane

Kara (she/they) lives on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA.She is a folk herbalist and an ancestral medicine connector. She creates a container for people to connect with their ancestors, the elements, the plants and with their bodies.The years of ancestral healing work she has practiced has led to ancestral medicine rooted in her Italian, Mediterranean and European folk ways. Kara offers seasonal plant medicine classes, private herbal consultations for specific concerns and preventative holistic self care. As well as private ancestral connection sessions, helping individuals to find their own ancestral medicine within. She is on instagram @cimarutaremedies and more info can be found at www.cimarutaremedies.com

Links and notes from this episode:

Angela Puca, Phd: https://www.youtube.com/c/AngelasSymposium/about

The Taranta project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtswRJcVI1E

Tribe from Brazil mentioned by Kara: Huni Kuin people https://www.iskubu.de/huni-kuin/

Dare Sohei as mentioned by Marybeth: https://bodyaltar.org

Background image: photo of altar by Kara Wood

Music by: Auld Lang Syne