In the week starting Monday 16th August and ending with the full moon on the following Sunday, I decided to have what I termed a ‘Witch Week’, 7 days dedicated to my practice; to studying, learning, working and incorporating the planetary associations and their influence to each day, as well as taking advantage of the …
A witch’s garden is a place of balance, a reflection of the witch’s soul, equal in light and shadow, in gleaming celestial heights and dark primordial depths. The garden of any occult practitioner should contain not only the beneficial herbs used for cooking, medicine and benign spells, but also the darker, baneful plants of the …
THE WITCH’S CAULDRON The Cauldron as a Tool in Your Magical Craft For centuries the cauldron has been a principal tool for a witch, but is perhaps underutilized in a lot of modern magical practices. From Cerridwen’s cauldron of poetic inspiration, to the cast iron cooking pots dangling in the stony hearths of Medieval cottages; …
The Wicker Man 1973, 91 minutes* of strangely bucolic folk horror set in the remote and windswept landscape of the fictional Hebridean island of Summerisle, whose inhabitants have forgone the dusty fabled bible and returned to older ways, to old gods and ancient rites. Where did the basis for these quaint village idiosyncrasies stem from? …
GALLOWS HILL By Katherine ‘Weird’ Wetherell The ancient hamlet that crowds itself under the shadow of Gallows Hill is witch haunted. Narrow, twisting unpaved lanes and mud tracks wind through leering gabled dwellings, half-timbered and half in disrepair. The rotting daub and worm ridden beams stand silent and impassive against the battering storms that tear …
Old Mother Shipton was an English prophetess born in 1488, in a cave in Yorkshire. She made great and famous predictions, including the Great Fire of London, The defeat of the Spanish Armada and even the end of the world. Her predictions (or ones purported to be hers) are written in rhyming couplets: Around the …
Times were troublesome over 400 years ago, and in the shadow of the wild and imposing Pendle Hill, witchcraft was brewing. King James I was on the throne, and he was terrified of people who could plot to take his life, namely Catholics and in turn, witches. Lancashire, being a wild and lawless county was …
