For the final Wassail Wednesday of 2022, shiver to the melancholy strains of “Marigold, Cold,” followed by a few recipes for hot winter’s punch. And finally, a collection of belated musical stocking stuffers: old wassail classics, a Smoking Bishop shout-out, and a few odds & ends. Happy New Year and wassail!

Bonus Episode ~ It’s Christmas Eve! Enjoy a Christmas punch recipe courtesy of Mr. Charles Dickens, followed by his roll call of Christmas ghosts in the old stories! Then thrill to Rosemary Timperley’s “Christmas Meeting.” Merry Christmas! Wassail!

Christmas Alone ~ Tragedy or tranquility? Blessing or curse? Let’s explore these questions through television specials, song, story, and the SIMPLEST recipe for hot Christmas punch ever! And find my new collection of Christmas ghost stories and collage: “Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes” here: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060

A wassail to Christmas cookies, long may they reign! Perhaps a token wassail, that one, only mentioning “wassailers wassailing” in the final verse, yet the song contains a strong energy of well-wishing toward the Christmas cookie. Brief discussion of wassailing traditions, consulting “The Old Magic of Christmas” by Linda Raedisch. then onward to sweet blessings for the Christmas ghost story! Which reminds me: find my new collection of Christmas Ghost Stories (& poems & art & wassail lyrics) titled “Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes” on Amazon! Author link: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060

Let’s bring back Wassail Wednesdays! (My 2021 December obsession) with its hot drink recipes, door-to-door singing, specific songs… In this episode, the audio from last year’s first live Wassail Wednesday gives us a recipe for Cafe Grog and a musical surprise! Author link: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 Haunted Pudding Ornaments and more available in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/HipnessAndOutrage

Invisible friend says: don’t sit down on me! Invisibility. Infertility. The enigmatic Only Child. Haunted children! And a grown man who sasses an 8-year-old girl about her dead siblings! William Wordsworth: “We are Seven” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Marlo Thomas “Free to Be You and Me” (LP) Mentioned: Lost Hearts by M. R. James The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Harry by Rosemary Timperley Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Glitter & Ghosts by Amy Zoellers Erring in Circles by Amy Zoellers

How many eyeballs in that gelatin salad? And do you dare to venture into the forest of the Doll’s Eyes? Spooky October wraps up with the evil eye, eye-related superstitions, and more haunted forests! Happy Halloween! Author Link ~ Glitter & Ghosts Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/anatomy-of-a-superstition-when-your-eye-jumps/ https://julieannbaumer.com/2015/11/16/suspended-in-aspic/ https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/haunted-forests-around-the-world

What goes on in a dead cafe? And what is that banshee guitarist up to? Tune in for more Spooky October to find out! Happy spooky October, everyone! Get in touch if you like at [email protected]. Find photos and song videos on Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor My art is available for sale on Etsy in my shop, HipnessandOutrage. More art and music showcased on Instagram @hipness_and_outrage. Books of poetry, art, and now ghost stories! available on Amazon. Follow my author page there, Amy Zoellers. https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained: A guide to the mysterious, the paranormal and the supernatural Folklore Podcast Episode 90: Mark Norman with guest Tommy Kuusela Time Enchanted World Series: Ghosts

Spooky October continues to haunt! Hear the tragic story of Sophia Vaile, prominent in Independence, Missouri high society in the late 19th century (along with her husband, Col. Harvey Vaile). The Vailes wanted to bring the swanky artistic flair of Europe to Independence, but their success unraveled when servants blabbed about a scandalous art piece in the bedroom! Sophia died of loneliness, scandal and stomach cancer in 1883. And some say her ghost roams the local cemetery! Happy spooky October, everyone! Get in touch if you like at [email protected]. Find photos and song videos on Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor My art is available for sale on Etsy in my shop, HipnessandOutrage. More art and music showcased on Instagram @hipness_and_outrage. Books of poetry, art, and now ghost stories! available on Amazon. Follow my author page there, Amy Zoellers. Link in show notes You can see the Vaile Mansion, inside and out, in short films on the Visit Independence, MO account. Titles include: The Haunted Vaile Mansion I am One of Many in the House and Where They Found Me https://youtu.be/S0n0CeLadNc https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 At Independence’s Vaile Mansion, Visitors Have Themselves a Scandalous Victorian Christmas by Monica Gabrielle Salazar https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2017-12-12/at-independences-vaile-mansion-visitors-have-themselves-a-scandalous-victorian-christmas?_amp=true

It’s the spookiest month of them all! Let’s celebrate with creepy musical springboards into scary stories and folklore! This time it’s Wandering Ghosts—of those who died while traveling, vanishing hitchhikers, and the Flying Dutchman. Ooooo settle in for music, poetry, and frightful stories! October has arrived!! Ubume | Yokai.com https://yokai.com/ubume/ The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits; Rosemary Ellen Guiley. The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand. Get in touch at [email protected] Check out Instagram: @podcast.in.a.minor for videos of the songs and pertinent photos and/or artwork. Artwork available for purchase! www.hipnessandoutrage.etsy.com Books of art and poetry on Amazon—search Amy Zoellers, or follow link in show notes. And catch live-streaming poetry talk and poetry reading: Cake and Hyperbull, first Saturday each month, 2 p.m. Central on YouTube Third Sunday Poetry, third Sunday each month, 2 p.m. Central on Instagram @hipness_and_outrage.