Strange Little Smile

The stories behind the songs: A WITCH'S LETTER TO GOD. It seems almost trendy to call yourself a witch these days, which overall I take to be a good sign. As Lisa Lister points out in her book 'Witch', to reclaim that word (is to an invoke an encounter with 'the witch wound', and that work is not for the fainthearted. In 'My Grandmother's Hands', Resmaa Menakem traces the epigenetic roots of the brutality inflicted on slaves in the U.S. back to the persecution of European women during the witch hunts, where between 35,000 - 100,000 'witches' were executed. The trauma that was imprinted on the bodies and minds of the victims and perpetrators, still has strong reverberations today.