Tag: folk ways
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The Tree And Plant Lore Series: The Rose.
This salt dough based poppet is used to help initiate a healing journey for someone who has experienced a broken heart. Perhaps through a break up or a more complicated divorce. This poppet working is not designed to be made by the one who is suffering with the broken heart, but rather by someone like…
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The Grimoire Series: A Modern Take On A Traditional Blood Staunching Charm.
There are many documented examples of traditional blood staunching charms that were used by Charmers, Pellars and Folk Witches alike here in both the British and Celtic isles. There is also a plethora of examples that come from our Pennsylvanian Dutch Cousins, over the waters in America. One example of this would be from the…
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Plant And Tree Lore Series: Witches’ Broom.
Hello and welcome to another instalment of the plant and tree lore series! This week we shall be looking at the tree growth and deformity otherwise known as witches’ broom; a fascinating growth that is steeped in folklore and folk magic applications. So, without much further ado, let’s begin! To the untrained eye, witches’ broom…
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The Plant And Tree Lore Series: “Through The Ivy Curtain And Past It’s Tangled Snare”.
Ivy, or Hedera helix, is commonly found throughout the British and Celtic Isles, and many other Ivy species grown around the world too. You can stare at the Ivy and it seems like she never moves, but be careful…take your eyes off her and you shall soon find that she has stealthily scaled your trees,…
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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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The Witch’s Altar- Musings Of A Modern Folk Witch.
Today I am gazing upon my altar and thinking about all of the beautiful complexities of it. My altar is not just a place where I go to perform workings (or spells);I can perform magickal workings anywhere. In fact, quite often workings occur in my kitchen, garden or out in the wilds of the woods,…
Diary of a Folk Witch 