#tradcraft

[deeealchemist]

“The only body part we found was one skull and one bit of pelvis, everything else was completely gone," said the park owner.

#witchcraft #witch #witches #traditional witch #traditional witchcraft #magick #occult #tradcraft #witchblr #witchy vibes #spirituality #gothcore #goth aesthetic #goth

[elvthron]

In Italy the 15th of August is a national holiday, Ferragosto, coming from the pagan festivity of “Feriae Augusti”, when Ottaviano Augusto was proclaimed emperor. Originally the whole month was a holiday, since there were also other festivities during that time (like the Nemoralia, 13th August, in honour of the goddess Diana).

Me and my boyfriend went to the woods to relax a bit and we decided to go a little farther than our usual places, here I stumbled upon glorious meadows full of beautiful plants 🍃💚

Artemisia vulgaris - my all time favourite ally, my Moon in plant disguise 🌙

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Solanum Nigrum - it was my first time meeting this plant and I’m very excited. That’s why I asked politely if I could take some branches with me and I felt like it was okay to. They’re now on my altar 🩶

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Datura Stramonium - my all time favourite, the one whom I feel so connected to. I’m about 6 feet tall and this one was taller than me! 🥀

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And dwarf elder flowers! They’re so cute (even cuter than ‘normal’ elder flowers) 🌸

#witch #witchcraft #pagan #nature #witchy #magic #personal #traditional witchcraft #magick #wicca #tradcraft #plants #occult #occult herbalism #herbalism #witchblr

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

Some things I’ve been thinking about. At times being an American trad witch is incredibly frustrating and at others it’s absolutely exhilarating, rewarding. Reconnecting with my ancestral ( primarily french and scottish ) lore, magical practices, witchcraft etc has and will continue to inform my practice but I’ll never be a “french” witch. I’ll never be a “scottish” witch. I can find a lone hawthorn or a sacred tree guarding a hidden spring to tie the cloutie to, I can divine via a snail’s mucus trail, Fly to the Sabbath to meet The Abbess, heed the Dame Blanches, pluck the golden bloom with songs to St Columba, safeguard me and mine via silver, spring water and juniper. Yet there’s many things I’ll never know or be able to do. Whether that’s because these things are so tied to the land or a specific place, language barriers, ( working to overcome this one ) or due to the ( well warranted) gate keeping of lore and practices.

This used to be a source of great confusion for me. I think because I was afraid( due to my previous new age fuckwittery ) to experiment, do anything other than what I understood as “traditional”. My understanding being too rigid at the time; the pendulum swung from one end of the spectrum to the other. This delayed my progress and “froze” me. I was left wondering what an “American” trad craft would look like; most our books do come from a European POV. Learning of our own magical traditions as well as those of my Canadian family ( still working on that one haha ) helped. Reading Robin Kimmere helped. Reading Schulke, him being an American and writing on American plants, helped too. I’ve come to know Sugar Maple and Plantain as powerful spirits. Both teaching important lessons on how to rectify my ancestors mistakes, to foster relations with the First Peoples and how to incorporate the magic of this land into my craft. Rather than being frustrated by my being American I see it as a challenge now. I get to explore spirits, plants, places, animals, spiritual/physical ecologies ( is even really a difference between these?) completely unknown to my ancestors. I get to reconcile the old and the new. To learn from Spirit Direct. Tradition isn’t the worship of ashes, it’s the preservation of Fire. New wood must be added to keep The Fire burning. The Devil of this land certainly is a spirit of the unknown.

I am the land, the land is me.

I don’t own it, to it I owe all.

To it my body will return, the tithe paid.

I’m not rolling hills of heather, white chalk cliffs, the monk’s island nor the azure coast. The memories of these places echo distantly in my blood, sung alive by my ancestors shades. Part of me they’ll always be; yet it’s not who I am. Not what I am.

I’m craggy shores, dull-jade waves bearing down upon the tired rocks. I am musky pine forests veiled in mist. Sun-venerating oaks hugging the shoreline. Bleeding alders in damp ground swelling. Proud maples sustaining generation upon generation with their boiled blood. Death-grey clay, exposed by running spring.

I am the kudzu, the itching moth, the knotweed, the Norway maple, the ivy wrecking havoc upon the land. My surname and light skin proof of a genocide ongoing. I am my ancestors sins; the specter of the Old Growth forests, their grief hanging over the land like a fog. Every interaction with The Land tinged with sadness, loss.

I am my maternal side’s copper curls. Melusine’s pride. Ave Landry! Ave Gauthier! Forebears mine.

I am my paternal side’s grief. The end result of decades of cultural warfare. The Jesuits stole our name….my hair will not be cut.

Never will I libate these glacier carved valleys with booze.

I am the plantain, learning a kinder way. The sumac reclaiming the orchard.

My Februarys, my Marches aren’t snow drops and daffodils peaking through the frozen ground. They’re steely skies and walls of sleet. Bloodroot heralds winters wane; not Brigid’s flower.

My June isn’t fields of poppies, it’s seas of crimson staghorn blooms skyward reaching.

My augusts aren’t golden shafts of wheat, swaying in summer’s last breaths; they’re explosions of neon-violet and honey-yellow. Corn ripening on the vine, supporting the climbing bean. The cicadas song reverberating.

Old Michaelmas marks harvest’s end, October potatoes long buried in soils darkness finally exhumed. The Devil his Rosy Briar to ascend and plunge.

With Novembers first snows the Dead come in.

I’ll never process around a standing stone nor know what it is to live and eat off the land my dead lay in. Finally, I’m learning to be at peace with this. To love and know the land I live on. I’ll always be a stranger here, a guest. I hope to be a good one.

#folk magic #tradcraft #traditional witchcraft #witch #folklore #magic #magick #traditional craft #witchcraft #occult #animism #animist #animistic #animists #witches #indigenous #reparations #Michaelmas #native plants #invasive plants #ancesters #ancestry #ancestral veneration #American witch #American witchcraft #Daniel schulke #traditional American witchcraft #American traditional witchcraft #Corrine Boyer #poetry

[saccharinesensuality]

Traditional Witchcraft, Vampirism and we who are Succubi/Incubi in human form overlap if you think about it. Witches in many cultures are still seen as inhuman (often demonic) souls with human skin that fly out to drink people's 🩸 or life force. In page 161 of Vampyre Magick, the fangsmith Father Sebastian writes of astral projection as "The Flight Of The Succubus". This is similar to hedge riding in traditional witchcraft, just without the psychedelics of flying ointment.

#tradcraft #incubus kin #demon kin #demonkin #incubuskin #sanguinarian #succubus kin #psi vamp #succubuskin #otherkin #eros vampirism #lhp #folk magic #traditional witchcraft

[paaxindigenouswitchcraft]

#witch #coffee #paax #pagan #pagan holidays #magic #mercury retrograde #kitchen witch #tradcraft

[artemisian-dragon]

New Tumblr but not new to Tumblr. Aiming to focus more on my craft so drop a follow or a heart if any of the following interest you:

Artemis

Apollo

Nyx

Lady of Avalon

Traditional witchcraft

Appalachian folk magic

Dragons

The Good Neighbors

I do also partake in fighting the oppressive system that is the entirety of the US

#pagan #witch #traditional witchcraft #tradcraft #goddess artemis #lord apollo #goddess nyx #great mother #dragon #appalachia #appalachian folk magic #the good neighbors #fae #faerfolk #did i miss any? #dragon magic #avalon #lady of avalon

[thedansemacabres]

not to be Cornish but it is genuinely so… awful how people getting into “serious witchcraft/tradcraft” pick up Cornish witchery books without ever knowing where Kernow is on a map. Do they know our culture is struggling? The housing crisis in Kernow? The fact kernow isn’t England? Do they even know that Cornwall speaks Kernowek?

It is simply tiring seeing another “beginner tradcraft reading list” and kernow is tossed in without thought or care.

#for anyone seeing my bio: I am Cornish from my grandfather #dragonis.txt #traditional witchcraft #tradcraft #witchblr #witchcraft

[brightgnosis]

“Wicca Bashing” Round 2: The Double Standard Of Always Shitting On Wicca But Not TradCraft

What ultimately utterly baffles me the most about the community's constant desire to pull down its pants and crap on Wicca, is that Robert Cochrane (Roy Bowers)?

Was also "A White British Man".

Also claimed the exact same "hereditary Witch Cult" nonsense.

Also created his own Witchcraft Tradition.

In the formation of Cochranite TradCraft, Robert Cochrane (Roy Bowers) also appropriated a lot of practices from other traditions and mythos he shouldn't've. And the tradition is, frankly, a hell of a lot more sex-centric within some strains than Wicca ever is- and that sex-centrism is blatantly erotic and hypersexual, rather than Wicca's focus on the fertility of the land via the Gods. He also decided it too requires initiation to enter his Tradition (even if the Initiation mechanisms are different).

Ultimately Cochranite TradCraft shares a lot of similarities of belief and practice to Wicca. And that's thanks to Cochrane literally having (at least) a 1st degree initiation into Wicca and one of its second major contributors being Doreen Valiente (a Wiccan High Priestess).

Not to mention the Traditions that outright do blend both openly and exist in a weird grey spot that's not quite one or the other. Or the open cooperation of people from both traditions to create materials for both- such as Ed Fitch and Joseph Bearwalker working together to create "The Pagan Way" to meet the demands for outsiders to both traditions. Or, like, y'know, Doreen Valiente whose contributions routinely get ignored and swept under the rug because pissing contests over which White British Man is "The Worst Actually" are more important I guess.

And yet TradCraft is always seen as "more legitimate" than Wicca, and gets absolutely none of the same hyper-policing or discussion of "Red Flags" and dangers, skepticism, outright lies made up about it, (Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner co-created Wicca exclusively to groom young hot women into having sex with them? Really? Really ????) etc, that Wicca does. Even despite sharing so many of these very specific similarities of both creator and their creation, structure, and praxis across its own (equally independent) strains of Tradition.

It's almost as if there's a massive double standard and bias in this community about who we police and who we don't ... And once again I have to tell people to pay attention to the crap that lays on their own side of the fence before complaining that their neighbor's yard stinks. Because these problems are not problems with individual groups, but with the community as a whole for a variety of reasons- and it's time to stop assigning all the blame to one singular group and acting like only one of us is "The Worst Actually".

None of us are "The Worst", actually. We all have shit in our own yards to deal with- and a lot of that shit was made by the same group of Dogs howling the same tune at the same damned moon. And we all need to deal with that collectively; this whole "Piss on one another all the time" thing is getting so goddamned old.

Like ... Are y'all not tired of acting like absolutely unnecessarily petulant and petty Toddlers over things, yet? Can you not grow up, stop acting like panicked Evangelist Protestants every 5 seconds, and actually act like the damned adults you're supposed to be, capable of having reasonable discussions already? I know I'm tired. Why aren't the rest of you already?

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[reno-matago]

The curse on my neighbor and the spell to keep my colleague away from my outings seem to have worked well. I feel more and more confident.

Paradigm changes regarding my personal Faery are also taking place, with a certain “demonolatry/theistic Satanism/Strigoi” tone, & always Luciferian with Hellenistic polytheism and cult of Antinous.

There is order to put back into my life!

#witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #tradcraft #curses #curse #spellcasting #spells #spellcraft #diary #journal #2023 #october 2023 #october

[quietjustice]

take care of the spirits and they’ll take care of you. A lot of the trees in my area have been broken and torn by local kids, I went to go harvest some holly leaves today for a protection ritual I’m planning. for the first time in the many years I’ve been working with this particular bush, a freshly fallen branch was lying there, right in my usual offering spot, the wood still green and the leaves still plump.

#it could not have been a more obvious gift but I still ask she imbue it with her virtues of protection and left offerings as planned #I’ve got a lot more leaves than I planned and some berries and twigs for the protection charms #it’s great bc I didn’t have to cut any branches or leaves directly from the plant as I usually would #I rarely use plant matter for spells or tools that I haven’t harvested live myself but this was obvs an exception #witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #tradcraft

[blackthornwren]

Hello! 2, 6 and 9 for the ask game? 🌹

Hello! 2. Does a particular faith inform your craft, or alternatively, if your faith and magic are separate - why is this distinction between the two important to you? My faith is predominantly built on folklore and superstition - a mix of Scottish (owing to my family's ancestry) and local to where I live, star lore, fairy belief, and what I've been told by Them. The magic is the same, but mainly informed by things conveyed to me in dreams and trances. 6. How easy or difficult has it been for you to hold to a dual faith observance? A little bit of both - there are times where it's easy, there are times when it's difficult. It ebbs and flows. It's one of those things that's hard to explain because on the surface level, it shouldn't make sense - venerating saints and actively working with the fair folk appears impossible. But it takes a lot of time and looking beneath that surface to find that they have more in common than you would think; that there are saints whose lived experiences involved the fair folk and that there are aspects of each that are not so dissimilar. 9. What's something you wish more people understood about the craft?

Keep things closer to the vest. Your practice grows and deepens by leaps and bounds when you're not posting every little detail online for the sake of an audience.

#fairy faith #folk magic #folk witchcraft #wren rambles #anon asks #tradcraft

[elvthron]

St. John’s night 🧡

🌞 Happy midsummer 🌞

#midsummer #st john #pagan #witch #witchcraft #nature #witchy #magic #traditional witchcraft #magick #tradcraft #witchblr #happy litha #blessed litha #litha celebration #litha 2023

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

Motivated by a mutual, here’s an ask game!

1 What do you practice?

2 Does a particular faith inform your craft, or alternatively, if your faith and magic are separate- why is this distinction between the two important to you?

3 What paradigm or philosophy do you adhere to?

4 What culture(s) is your magic rooted in?

5 For my dual faith folks, do you practice a historically attested syncretism or one of your own creation?

6 How easy or difficult has it been for you to hold to a dual faith observance?

7 What are some of your favorite tools?

8 What are some of your favorite books, or books you would recommend to a novice?

9 What’s something you wish more people understood about the craft?

10 What’s something you’re tired of explaining to people?

11 How would you define witchcraft?

12 Your favorite things about the occult community? Whether it’s your local community, if you’re lucky enough to have one, an online community or whatever!

13 Least favorite things about the community?

14 Go to herbal allies?

15 What’s something you feel is often overlooked?

16 Books in general you recommend or are interested in?

17 go to animal allies?

18 go to mineral allies?

19 most unorthodox thing you’ve utilized in magic?

20 what’s something you’re currently interested in and/or learning about?

#traditional witchcraft #magic #tradcraft #occult #folk magic #magick #witch #witchcraft #folklore #traditional craft #witches #traditional witches #traditional witch #animism #animist #occultism #occultist #asks #ask #ask game #witchy asks #witchcraft asks #bring back ask culture #bring back asks culture

[sisterofmercy]

Hi, so im looking for some witchy books in Polish or english about:

1. Hekate and hellenic polytheism

2. Folk witchcraft (mostly eastern european)/traditional witchcraft

4. Slavic paganism

5. Christian witchcraft

Andrew from sisters of mercy to catch your attention

#traditional magick #occultism #traditional witchcraft #spellcraft #folk witchcraft #folk christianity #witchcraft #hekate #hekatean witch #hellenic paganism #hecate #hellenic community #hellenic polytheism #tradcraft #slavic witch #slavic deities #slavic witchcraft #slavic paganism #folk magick #magick #goth

[breath-of-venus]

I used to think I was lucky to have been studying magic since 14. In a way, I kinda am. I've covered many basics at that age, but at the same time so much of my way of understanding of magic and its processes shifted that I'm not even sure that was any kind of headstart for me.

If anything, magic seems to have (very) slowly creeped into my life as solid "thing" when I was 18. And even now I still feel very much a newbie, at age 22. The difference is that now this newbie is going places 18 yo newbie-me wasn't, and places 14 yo newbie-me definitely wasn't.

What I'm saying, I think, is that you're gonna get where you're supposed to get when you're supposed to. Perhaps there is no headstart.

#breathing words #witchcraft #tradcraft

[theheartofpelagius]

My friends found a faerie in the pumpkin patch and they were just so cute I had to draw them~

#digitalart #watercolor #folklore #fairygarden #cottagecore #fairy #fairycore #goblin vibes #fall vibes #autumn #samhain #second sight #tradcraft #halloween #pumpkin