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Paganism in History
The customs and spiritual practices of the early, pre-Christian Pagan cultures were passed down from one generation to the next. These old ways were traditions for respecting and interacting with the ...
What is Paganism?
Sometimes that is difficult to define. Modern Paganism probably embraces the most diverse sets of spiritual belief systems and practices in existence today. Paganism is not a traditional “religion” be...
Witchcraft Explained
Witchcraft is a number of belief systems whose roots pre date Christianity and which comes under the umbrella heading of Pagan. Witchcraft also has roots which go back to Paleolithic times as illustra...
The Meaning of the Word Paganism
The word Pagan comes from the Latin word “Paganus” which in itself means country dweller. This word may of once been used as a derogatory term created by city dwellers to describe what can be terms as...
Various Witches’ Tools
Various Witches’ Tools. Every Witch may use different tools in their rituals and spellwork. Witchcraft is full of symbolism, and the tools chosen often reflect personal beliefs, cultural backgro...
The Broom in Witchcraft
The broom, or besom, is probably the most recognized symbol of Witches and Witchcraft. While many people think of flying Witches, the broom’s real meaning is much deeper. For centuries, brooms have be...
The Wand in Witchcraft
The wand is a key tool in many witchcraft traditions. It is most often linked to the element of Fire and is usually placed in the southern part of the altar. This is not by chance—the wand channels en...
Babylonian Devil trap
Babylonian Devil traps, also called incantation bowls, are fascinating artifacts from the ancient Near East. They give us insight into the spiritual and magical beliefs of that time. These bowls were ...
How to make a Set of Worry Dolls
How to make a Set of Worry Dolls Worry dolls are a traditional tool from Central America, often used by children, but adults can benefit from them as well. According to legend, if you tell your worrie...
Creating A Witches’ Inspiration Jar
Creating A Witches’ Inspiration Jar. Step 1: Gather all necessary supplies. You will need: The color orange symbolizes creativity and energy. A deep orange fosters strong, profound creativity, w...
Creating Sacred Salt Jar
Creating Sacred Salt Jar. Step 1: Select an appropriate container. Choose a covered stone or earthen jar for grounding properties, or a glass jar with a secure lid if you prefer visibility of the cont...
Creating a Simple Besom
Creating a Simple Besom. The besom, or witch’s broom, is a traditional tool for both physical and spiritual cleansing. Making your own besom is a meaningful ritual that connects you to the land and th...
Creating a Witches Good Luck Sachet
Creating a Witches Good Luck Sachet. Creating a Witch’s Good Luck Sachet is a simple and meaningful way to invite positive energy, fortune, and protection into your life. In this guide, I will walk yo...
Creating Coloured Sachets For s
Creating Coloured Sachets For Rituals. Creating coloured sachets for rituals is a simple and meaningful craft. Here is a straightforward guide to making your own ritual sachets. Begin by choosing a na...
Creating Your Own Besom
Creating Your Own Besom. While you can easily buy a broom, making your own besom from natural materials is a deeply meaningful and empowering experience. This process connects you to the earth and the...
50 Ways To Use Essential Oils
1. For good-smelling towels, sheets, clothes, etc. place a few drops of your favorite essential oil onto a small piece of terry cloth and toss into the clothes dryer while drying. Add 5 drops of essen...
ABC of carrier oils
Vegetable and carrier oils have a plethora of fine uses which include acting as a carrier for therapeutic applications, as an excellent addition to your culinary creations, as a lathering agent for so...
Essential Oils and Their Magickal Properties
ACACIA: Possessing high spiritual vibrations, this oil is worn to aid meditation and to develop psychic powers. Some also use it to anoint their altars, censers, and candles. ALL-SPICE: Very vitalizin...
Devil’s Marks
According to witch-hunters, the Devil always permanently marked the bodies of his initiates to seal their pledge of obedience and service to him. He marked them by raking his claw across their flesh o...
Hermetica. Mystical Wisdom
Hermetica Forty-two sacred books of mystical wisdom attributed to the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, or“thrice great Hermes,” the combined Egyptian and Greek deities of Thoth and Hermes, respectively. ...
Allotriophagy
The vomiting or disgorgement of strange or foul objects, usually associated with someone possessed by or obsessed with the Devil or other demons. Such actions also once were seen as illusions or spell...
Airts, The Four
This is an old Gaelic term for the four points of the compass, north, south, east and west. They are important in magic, as the magic circle should always be orientated to them. Early Christian church...
Aiguillette
A knotted loop of thread, also called a ligature, which witches were said to use to cause impotence, and perhaps even castration, in men; barrenness in women; and general discontent in marriage. The a...
Footprints
Footprints are reputed to contain the essence of a person and may be used in magical charms and spells. Dust or dirt taken from a footprint may be used to obtain power over the person who made the pri...
Avalon, The Ancient British Paradise
Avalon, where the dying King Arthur found rest at the end of his epic story, has been identified with the present-day Glastonbury. Many legends cling to this ancient place, among the green hills of So...
The Birth of Dionysus and the Twelve Days of Dionysos
In Orphic tradition the Nativity, Epiphany or birth (Genethlia) of Dionysus is celebrated in the evening of 24th December, and is the beginnng of 12 days of ritual worship of Dionysus the Saviour, and...
The Dorset Ooser
The Ooser was written about in Doreen Valiente’s ABC’s of Witchcraft and in Margaret Murray’s The God of the Witches. It was a hollow mask made of painted wood, trimmed with fur, and crowned with bull...
The Fetch Beast
The Fetch-Beast, also known as the Fetch-Wife, has been dealt with elsewhere in this book, and is the Underworld Self of the Crafter, known in Briar Rose as the Dragon. The third kind of Fetch, the on...
The Powers of the Sphinx
here are said to be four primary things essential to magic. These four principles are the Powers of the Sphinx: To know, to will, to dare, and to keep silent Eliphas Lévi indicates where to start in o...
Castle of Stone
The castles of our system are based on Grail Lore, but they also have representations in the none world. These castles are symbolic of the energies inherent in their names and attributed to them by my...
Planetary Correspondence The Moon
GlyphSymbols Crescent, cup, silver sickleDeities Hecate, Selene, Diana, ThothArchangel GabrielDay MondayColors Silver, white,Number TwoMetal Silver Stones Moonstone, pearl, chalcedony, mother ofpearlI...
A Moon Magick Ritual For Calm
Wait until the Moon is moving towards full, and is quite bright in the sky. Find somewhere as dark as possible so the light is undiluted and slowly ‘inhale’ the light through your nose, looking at the...
Planetary Days And Their Applications: The Moon
Monday, the day of the Moon, is for spells concerning the home, family matters, and the influence of the family, especially the mother, children, and animals. Its prime focus is fertility and all the ...
Witchcraft Theory & Practice – Full Moon
The ways of magic are aligned with the Full Moon. The archetypes of both Goddess and God resonate with a liberating consciousness and the Ritual of Esbat (the rite of the Full Moon) releases the visio...
Gorse
Gorse, or Ulex, is a striking genus of evergreen shrubs in the pea family Fabaceae, renowned for its impenetrable thickets and radiant golden blooms. Native to western Europe and northwest Africa, gor...
Guarding Against Psychic Attacks
Feeling protected from psychic attacks is important. If you’re experiencing symptoms becoming aware of the psychic attack, through identification of the unusual events taking place, may help to dimini...
Reasons for a Psychic Attack
There are many motivations that may make someone perform a Psychic Attack of some kind on another person. These may include the following. The person performing the Psychic Attack may be jealous. An e...
Full Moon Blessing Rite
Items needed: Clear glass bowl, a one-liter bottle of spring water, silver paint, sprig of jasmine, moonstone, two white altar candles, gardenia incense and oil, small paintbrush, altar tools of your ...
Black Mirror Gazing
The black mirror is used very much like a crystal ball. You can purchase, or make your own if you prefer! Black paint on the back of a piece of glass is all this takes. Use an old photo frame, paint t...
Mirror Doorway in Witches Homes
It is recommended that you never allow a mirror to face or reflect a doorway or window.If yours does, move it if possible.If you cannot move it, use a sator square or similar protective talisman.Mirro...
Iron Protection Ritual
Items needed: Eight pieces of iron or iron nails One black candle, A dish of salt, Protection incense. Method Place the candle on the floor near your front door. Encircle the candle with the iron piec...
Rite of Metal
Once upon a time, magickal symbolism in jewelry, such as the pentacle, the Star of David, or even the Helm of Awe could render the wearer a death sentence. Although we no longer live in the Dark Ages,...
Planetary Qualities of Metals
Ever since Vulcan, son of Jupiter, created thunderbolts in his underground forge, the power of metal magick as been a closely guarded secret. In Western alchemy, it was believed that the metals found ...
A Meditation to Help You Reduce Anxiety
A meditation to help you reduce anxiety. First, I’d like to invite you to gently close your eyes and take a nice, slow, deep breath in, deeper than you’ve taken all day so far. And as you exhale, conc...
Meditation and Visualization
Preparing for ritual and magical work involves accessing a beneficial altered state of mind that allows for both openness and focus. Many traditions practice specific meditation and visualization tech...
Simple Formula for HedgeWitch, Spellwork, Prayer, and Meditation
1. Go to the still point. This means relaxing, closing your eyes, taking several deep breaths, and letting nothing fill your mind. Be at peace. In your mind, surround yourself with white light. 2. Nex...
Meditation, Grounding and Centering Part 3
Visualization is critical to any magickal practice. It is the art of seeing with your mind’s eye, the results you wish to manifest when your work is completed. So how do we achieve that? With practice...
Meditation, Grounding and Centering Part 2
The next important step is to learn to Ground and Center. What does that mean exactly? Well during the course of our day-to-day, our energy scatters to the four winds as we try to grapple with the hec...
Meditation, Grounding and Centering Part 1
Three of the most important basic practices of Witchcraft include Grounding, Centering and Meditation. I’m going to address each one separately but the combined practice of these is going to be invalu...
How to Meditate
Attitude is everything. While there are many meditative strategies, what makes the difference in terms of spiritual awakening is your quality of earnestness or sincerity. Rather than adding another “s...
Mindfulness in Meditation
Mindfulness is not a technique so much as an important aspect of magical practice. Mindfulness is being in the moment, allowing whatever task you’re performing to have the whole of your attention in a...
Meditation
Meditation is a focusing of the mind and creating within it a relaxed state of awareness. When you learn to properly meditate, you actually alter how your brain functions—lowering the brainwave freque...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind 5
Leave the city for a while and reconnect with nature. This could mean going on your lunch break in a nearby park or going on a vacation to get away from the stress of daily life. Anything you can do t...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind 4
Live in the here and now. Forget about the errands you have to run tomorrow after work, or the bills you have to pay next week, or the uncertainty of your future that you haven’t even gotten to yet. W...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind 3
Meditate on a regular basis. We suggest meditation a whole lot on our website, but for good reason. When you meditate, you stop the flow of thoughts bombarding your consciousness every second, and ins...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind 2
Repeat peaceful words to yourself throughout your day. Pay attention to your brain at this very moment…what kinds of thoughts do you observe? Most likely, you will notice that the majority of your tho...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind 1
Focus on the positive aspects of yourself and your surroundings. In short, we have collectively created the mass disorder and confusion we observe around us on a daily basis with our thoughts. We have...
Techniques to Quieten Your Mind Introduction
In many ways, the uncontrolled mind resembles a five-year-old child wanting to run amok through the city streets, only able to sit still for a few seconds before getting the urge to jump up again. If ...
Witchcraft Theory Practice and Meditation
Meditation is a very ancient technique that has been used worldwide by sages, magi, magicians, witches, wizards, and monks who have taught people who have in turn taught others. The actual word “medit...
Mastering Manifestations One: Take your Power Back
Manifestation is about exploring your inner self and exploring it to that extent where your dreams can become part of your regular life. This is true and it is very much possible because there are peo...
Mastering Manifestations 1.2 : The Power of Concentration
When it comes to manifesting what you want, nothing beats focus and clarity. Yet most people can’t get clear or remain focused long enough to get what they want. They keep changing their minds or gett...
Mastering Manifestations Three Getting Rid of Distractions
We live in a time of constant distractions. You get pull from your concentration and lose our ability to manifest what you want by TV, mobiledevices, and the internet. Clear away anything that might d...
Mastering Manifestations Four Get Comfortable
Have everything you need, set, and ready to go. Take a bathroom break. Get some water. Assemble anything you need to create what you have in mind. You want to keep complete concentration, not have to ...
Mastering Manifestations Five Clear Your Mind
Slowly close your eyes, and take three deep, slow breaths. On the first breath out, relax as completely as you can. On the second breath out, clear your mind of any thought by just focusing on the fee...
Mastering Manifestations Six Decide What You Really Want
What do you want to manifest? It doesn’t matter if it’s a feeling or relationship or an object or an experience. It’s your desire. The only rule is you must focus on what you want, not on what you don...
Mastering Manifestations 1.7: Write Down Your Desire
Writing all these ideas down speeds your process because most people can’t write about an idea and simultaneously think about a different idea. Writing increases your concentration power. Be as specif...
Mastering Manifestations 1.8: Get Clear On Why You Want it
If you aren’t completely committed to manifesting your desire and it’s what you really want, work on finding more reasons why you want it. Write down as many as you can think of. Don’t worry about wha...
Mastering Manifestations 1.9: Write Down the Steps to Get There
Now that you are in complete concentration on what you want, you can feel the inspiration building. Write down the steps that come to mind to get you there. You don’t have to have a complete plan, jus...
Suggestions for your Magickal Cabinet
Over time you may collect all kinds of tools and equipment to use as you make magickal herbal items, amulets, charge candles for magickal purposes, and much more. Here is a listing of the basics that ...
The Athame in Magick
An athame is, quite simply, a ceremonial knife. You can obtain an athame from a specialist magical shop, but as I said before, any knife – even a letter opener – will do, although it should preferably...
The Chalice in Magick
The chalice, or ritual cup, used for rituals is traditionally made of silver, but you can also use crystal,glass, stainless steel or pewter. The chalice represents the Water element and is placed in t...
The Eye
The eye is considered to be the primary organ of sense perception. It is closely associated with light, the spirit, and the sun. The eye symbolizes spiritual and mental perception and is considered to...
The Witches Cauldron in Magick
While the word “cauldron” may bring to mind images of Shakespeare’s three witches tossing all kinds of animal parts into a boiling stew for evil purposes, the cauldron is really a symbol of the Goddes...
The Witches Bell in Magick
The bell stands in the North of the circle and is an Earth symbol.It is an optional tool and can be made from either crystal or protective brass.Best for magick is the kind that you strike.The bell is...
Tools And Treasures
You may need to collect some basic tools for your spells and rituals. They need not be at all expensive. Magick was traditionally carried out with the equipment of the home. The broom for sweeping the...
Witches Knife/ Athame
The ritual knife, like the wand, is a tool that directs energy in ritual, and may also be used to draw the circle before ritual and close the circle afterwards. However, it is more of an energy manipu...
Witches Pentacle
The pentacle is an important symbol-bearer in Witchcraft, normally inscribed with a pentagram, though other magical symbols may be present. The pentagram itself is a five-pointed star, drawn with five...
Charging and Cleansing Your Tools
Once you have prepared your elemental substances, you can charge your tools ready for use. If they have been bought, whether new or second-hand, you might also like to cleanse them first. You can also...
The Pentagram
The Pentagram of the Witches is a five-pointed star, drawn in one continuous motion and often enclosed within a circle. With a single point facing upward, it stands as one of the most recognizable sym...
Witches Green Salt
Green Salt is used in magick and rituals by Pagans, Wiccans, Hoodoo practitioners, people who practice witchcraft and those who want a little psychic or spiritual help for its powerful abilities to at...
Witches Salt
Salt rituals are some of the oldest forms of magick. People have used salt for spiritual and magical purposes for thousands of years. Salt is important for life, and many cultures believe it has the p...
Cascarilla Powder
Cascarilla is a fine white powder made from ground eggshells. It is a staple in many witchcraft traditions. Its origins lie in West African spiritual practices, which later blended into Caribbean and ...
The Key & its Symbolic Power
The Key and its Symbolic Power. Throughout history, the key has served as a powerful symbol, representing both the ability to open and the authority to lock away. This dual nature lies at the heart of...
The Wand & Witchcraft
Throughout history, the wand has stood as a symbol of power, transformation, and connection to the unseen. Ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians, Greeks, and Celts used wands in rituals, believi...
Witches Bottle Spell
Supplies Needed 1 mason jar,A variety of sharp items such asnails,broken glass,barbed wire,thumb tacks,Shovel or digging tool.1 red candlematches or lighterpen or pencil and paperWandYour DNASea SaltB...
Witch’s Broom
The besom, or witch’s broom, is one of the most recognizable symbols in witchcraft. Throughout history, it has appeared in legends and stories, often shown as the magical tool that lets witches fly th...
Witches Garters
Witches garters are special bands or cords believed to hold magical power. They have a long history and are still used today in Witchcraft rituals. In some covens, they also show a person’s rank...
