Reading – What Witches Do: Introduction
What Witches Do by Stewart Farrar was first published in 1971, after the author, a journalist, was sent to interview Alex Sanders, the founder of Alexandrian Wicca. Farrar was charmed by Sanders and his witch cult, and set about writing…
What is a Witch?
For us:- “Witches are what Witches do” and they:- Celebrate the mysteries through the Wheel of the Year. Engage in the Great Work. Raise power to work magic Practice of the Crafts which integrate us into the world, such as…
What Makes it Witchcraft?
Kelden posted at By Athame & Stang: As a Traditional Witch, I believe that there are three essentials of what makes Witchcraft, Witchcraft: the practice of magic, working with Spirits and the Otherworld, and connecting with the natural landscape.
Witchcraft Today: Chapter 2
Notes made while reading “Witchcraft Today” by G.B.G. What is a witch? Men and women with knowledge of spells (via charms, potions etc) for healing, love, harming Can affect the weather Communicated with spirits, the dead, small gods Power or…
The History of Wicca and Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Books I own The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton Trials of the Moon: Reopening the Case for Historical Witchcraft by Ben Whitmore Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival by…
Witchcraft Today: Chapter 1
Notes made while reading “Witchcraft Today” by G.B.G. Skyclad – “only in that way can we obtain power” If clothing impedes the release of power, perhaps you’re not raising it right! GBG sees aura only on bare flesh, but projection…
Why Wicca? Why Witchcraft? Why Witch?
These are the things that make sense to me: the Divine is immanent in all things reality is not either/or but and~more polarity is important not just for the extremes of the spectrum but for the infinite in between in…
1.1 Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism
Notes made while reading “Towards the Wiccan Circle” by Sorita d’Este. Witchcraft is a folk magic practice that utilises spells of various forms to make manifest one’s Will. Paganism is term used to describe a range of pre-Christian religious beliefs…
Images of (Traditional) Witchcraft
Notes made while reading “A Deed Without a Name” by Lee Morgan. Choosing the path of witchcraft because drawn to imagery like spirit flights, hedge crossing, bubbling cauldrons, wild dances in wild places, death and ghosts, shape-shifting, sorcery. Imagery created…
Practice
Notes made while reading “Children of Cain” by Michael Howard. On the Cultus Sabbati: ..It practices ‘the spells and customs which generations past have bequeathed’ such as healing, divination, toad bone magick, the use of knotted cords for magical purposes,…