Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Diary Of A Folk Witch, a living witchcraft platform for ALL!
Are you looking to learn more about British and Irish folk witchcraft, folklore and modern wise folk skills, but not entirely sure where to start?
Perhaps you’re new to your path and looking to explore it further in a safe and informative environment? Or maybe you’re an experienced Occultist and looking to find genuine content on Folk Witchcraft that is neither ‘fluffy’ or watered down?
Well, you have come to the right place!
My name is Zanna, and I gladly invite you to join me on my path as a Folk Witch, Wise Woman and Priestess, living in the North of England.
Here, I will share with you my life as a wise woman and doula, the folkloric and herbal research I carry out, along with my folk witch practices.
Through a blend of informative posts and diary entries, I open the door that welcomes you into my very own world of every day authentic folk witchery, herbalism, and the study of native folklore.
On this site, I primarily discuss practices related to my own region of the North West of England (particularly, Lancashire). However, I do also branch further afield to the rest of Britain, and at times also, Ireland. As much of my family are from Ireland, I am a student of Gaeilge (Irish language), work closely with the goddess Brigid, and also hope to move back to Ireland, with my family one day.
Therefore, Irish culture, history and spirituality also features heavily within my personal practice.
My work covers some of the following topics:
Diary Of A Folk Witch Entries.
Folk Witchcraft.
Divination.
Spirits of the land.
Connecting with ones own local landscape and its history.
Folklore of Britain and Ireland.
Ancestral Veneration.
Animism.
Kitchen Witchcraft.
Folk Ways & Urban Homesteading
Herbs, Healing, Foraging And Plant Lore.
Spells, workings and rituals.
Witchcraft History.
As well as this, I often hold talk and workshops, both in person and online!
It is my sincere hope that you enjoy exploring this website, podcasts, the YouTube channel, and also through my articles (which can be found in Pagan Dawn magazine) while walking through the world of modern Folk Witchcraft with me.
Through the time, mists, and distance between us, blessings from me to you.
LATEST POSTS
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The Grimoire Series: A Safe Key Spell For Protection Of The Home.
Keys, alongside many other easily accessible and everyday tools, have a long history and listed examples of extensive use within folk magick and witchcraft. The key has two main associations, being initiation and the gaining of entrance into something, and that of blocking or barring entry. This latter aspect of being seen to block access
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Diary Of A Folk Witch: The Witch’s Garden, Prayer, Cerridwen, And The Importance Of Self Care.
Date: 16th May 2022Moon Phase: Full Moon/Lunar BeltanePlace: Lancashire, UK For the last few weeks, I have been sheltering in the womb of self care and retreat.With the easing of Coronavirus restrictions over the last few months, I have found the world is steadily going back to ‘normal’. With ‘busy-ness’ increasing and the world speeding
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An Invocation To The God And Goddess.
Hello and thank for for joining me this week in our second instalment of the Grimoire series as part of the premium content subscription. I am delighted to share with you two invocations that I have written and use within my own personal practice, and I, of course, invite you to also use them should
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Grimoire Series: The Home Centre Candle Working.
The Home Centre Candle is a working I created back in about 2014 to act as a central point of power and manifestation within the home. It is a symbolic piece of sympathetic magick whose objective can be tweaked each month depending on what is needed.For example, if I felt the home and family needed
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The Problem With Gatekeeping, Occult Snobbery, And Elitism Within Modern Witchcraft.
One of the best things about witchcraft is that it has so many flavours! Witchcraft is a practice that is evident in pretty much every culture of the world! Therefore, how can there ever be one practice or way that is superior to them all? The truth is that there cannot be. Therefore modern occult…
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‘By The Pricking Of My Thumbs’: The Use Of Needles & Pins Within Witchcraft For Healing & Ill.
As long as there has been a practice of Witchcraft, so too does there seem to have been a use of pins, needles, nails, and other sharp, pointed, and easily accessible such tools within the art. In this weeks blog we shall be looking at references of the use of both pins and needles within…
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