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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Bethan Christopher

Author
Danielle Van de Velde
Published
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://daniellevandevelde.com/podcast/

Bethan Christopher is a UK based illustrator known for her vibrant,
 nature-inspired art. Her work draws on the botanical world, a lifelong
 study of creative esotericism and her ancestral lineage of Norse and
 Indian spirituality. She is the internationally published author of
 Rebel Beauty For Teens, the women's body-love bible Grow Your Own
 Gorgeousness and founder of Bopha School, a project that provides clean
 water, menstrual hygiene education and reusable sanitary products to
 school children in the poorest provinces of Cambodia.
 
 Join us as Bethan shares:

  • Her happy and magical upbringing in the wilderness of the Isle of White
  • How finding a ‘hag stone’ initiated her witchcraft as a girl
  • The important role that her father played in exploring how story and land weave together and esoteric writings
  • The felt presence of her ancestors and lineages
  • The essential relationship with land and nature for magic
  • Her beautiful way to work magic for herself and her clients
  • Her connection with the warrior witch Queen, Boudicca of the first century CE
  • The critical role of artists and creatives in these times, and the spell-craft of her writing and art
  • Her incredible personal development program development and coaching to help recovering addicts and young women, and how magic and coaching are linked, 

and so much more. 

You can find out more about Bethan here:

Website

Instagram


The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

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Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

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Production:

Kymberly Sng

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