Tracy Nicholas

I help people bring folklore and magick into their day to day lives

: My name is Tracy Nicholas and I work at the intersection where folklore, mindful living and creativity meet. As an animist, nature is central to my spiritual practice and living in a way that reduces my impact on the planet’s resources is an ongoing focus for me. Folkloring, the podcast I host, explores practical folklore and ways to bring it off the page and into our day to day lives. I am the theatre and film correspondent for the top ranking show The Folklore Podcast. I am a folklore researcher and author, exploring how folklore and our beliefs can and should be part of our day to day lives. My book, Mind Over Magick, explores the science and psychology behind and our beliefs about magic and how it works. Through a mix of philosophy, science, and common sense, Mind Over Magick examines what we can infer about magick from what we already know to be true. The book separates the psychological need to believe in a magick that supernaturally fixes all of our problems without discounting the reality that magick is accessible to us all. I have a degree in Stage Management from Columbia College and a Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. I live on Chicago’s North Shore where I rarely live up to the exacting standards of my feline supervisor Puck.