What are Homunculi? A Witch Wednesday article.
After watching the beautiful series Small Prophets, which I highly recommend watching, I just had to do a little Witchy Wednesday on the creatures at the centre of the series. If you haven't seen it yet then please come back once you have! It is currently available on BBC iPlayer. Small Prophets is a British television sitcom created, written and directed by Mackenzie Crook. Set in and around Manchester, it stars Pearce Quigley as a man who turns to alchemy and homunculi in an attempt to learn what happened after his girlfriend disappeared, with the cast also including Crook, Michael Palin, Lauren Patel, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing. The series premiered on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on 9 February 2026. Information from Wikipedia. Lovely write up on the TV series here. https://dramaquarterly.com/gently-does-it-2/ Now to the History! What is a Homunculi? Warning contains references to more adult themes! A homunculus (Latin for "little man") refers to a microscopic, fu...