Love magic for Valentine's Day 2024 on Wednesday's Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published February 14, 2024 at 11:31 AM MST

Jeannie Thomas is a folklorist, USU English Professor and co-director of the USU Digital Folklore Project. She teaches a class called Magic and Monsters. Included in that class is a section on love magic. On this Valentine’s Day we’ll talk about love spells, heartbreak rituals, a study about fruit flies and breakups, and anthropologist Helen Fisher’s studies on what happens to our brains when we fall in love.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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