ROOT is what lies beneath wat’s is planted in the soil, from which a plant or tree grows. Concerning myself, after I left christianity in 2015 it took me two years of burnout and agony to come back to my hereditary magical roots. Christianity always tried to eradicate everything what clerical patriarchy considered ‘evil’, I already wrote about the Maleus Malificarum and its impact on society, but if it wasn’t for the Maleus Malificarum other means had been invented to repress magical folks. Now my grandfather knew a lot about the bible, and I also know a lot about the bible, Hebrew, theology, church history etc, which lead to my decision to leave all that behind. I dot find anything magical or useful in the christian viewpoints and theology, though the jewish ones are still powerful to me.
Herbs, roots and food were the specialities of my grandfather and some of it I took with me when I returned to my roots, the more the side of the Pellar, which I discovered on my journey when I faced adversity on my journey, which also influenced dear ones. From my grandfather I learned ‘never to act in anger’, because that would cause harm to me and my loved one. In Cornwall I learned that “a good ritual takes a good amount of time and effort”, so. nothing easy from a ‘one size fits all’ booklet. The practice of Traditional Witchcraft should lead to becoming advanced in knowledge and practice.
After a while, I continued further studies in Buddhism and Hinduism, Seidr Magic, Shamanism, Crowleyan Magick, old grimoires like the Picatrix and other eastern magical systems to discover the similarities between ‘High Magic’ and Earth Based Witchcraft; there is much to learn still and tere I so much wisdom in this world. I the near future, after a proper preparation I will post videos on a new YouTube channel, but everything in time!
O many people, especially Wiccans, why Traditional Witchcraft isn’t really open to the outside world about the practices. No, for the most part that’s completely true, on the other hand there are a number of books on Traditional Witchcraft available now like 
SUPPOSE it is maybe a strange title for an article, because it isn’t a word found in a dictionary, but for Witchcraft it is essential to be reconned as a craft, if it is a craft. If everything that is called witchcraft has to be a craft rather than a hobby of just a philosophy. There are many pretenders out there, luring at the seekers that pay money for humbug. I see it on TikTok and many other social-media platforms, people PM me to pretend they’ve seen a glimpse of my history, present or future. I’m sorry to say that a traditional witch isn’t a saleswoman on a country fair as a matter of speaking, though she can be in real life, she or he doesn’t need to boast about gifts she/he/they possesses. Often that is a mark of a fraud. I don’t make myself popular by saying this, coming from a line that despises the frauds out there. 
NE of the most evil and controversial books ever written, by Heinrich Kramer 1) (or: Henricus Institoris) was a book that set off the official persecution of so-called “witches”. There were approximately 110,000 witch trials and about 60,000 “witches” killed 2). Heinrich Kramer was surely women hater pur sang and he presumed that every women, who wasn’t submitted to men, didn’t conform to church doctrine, had knowledge and some sort power beyond what was permitted (that is doing chores, cooking and caring for children), was a witch. What we know is that the majority of women, that were persecuted, were just christian women, seldom were they witches, because, surely after christianity took full control over every aspect of the lives and thoughts of individuals, we kept in the shadows, with the secrecy that was, and still is, an essential part of Traditional Witchcraft.
Let me give an example: Love spells! There is so much we can do ourself, like taking a bath (hahaha), dressing for the occasion, staying true to your true self and knowing if the one you desire is suitable or not, having consensus! Enchanting someone can be manipulation. Without any magical means can be magical in itself. Sometimes people want something that will be disappointing in the end. A beautiful woman or man can be a trap in the end and then you are disappointed? Witchcraft is the Craft of the Wise, not the ineptitude of the fool! So, part of the journey is being able to learn, in stead of stumbling in your stubbornness. I too still have to learn and when I know that I don’t know I will seek advise of the spirits, the ancestors, the divinities or a wise sister, but in traditional witchcraft you’ll never get a ‘one size fits all’ answer or a standard spell that can fix your hell. Sometimes you’ll get the advice to pick up the peaces yourself if you find the cause of your own failure. I don’t speak to the newbies to the craft, but to those that have the audacity to say that they are a know-it-all, did-it-all. It is a life long journey and the mayor part is being able to learn.
HAT is the difference between Wicca and Traditional Witchcraft? In fact there are a lot of differences. For ages, any kind of magic was prohibited by the church and if someone testified against you, condemning you as a witch, your doom was sealed. There was no escape, if you didn’t confess you were tortured until you did and if you didn’t you were subjected to the waterproof, if you were innocent you’d drown, if you didn’t you were burned at the stake. Now many scholars came to the conclusion that the majority of the victims of the witch hunts were christian women, it was even rare that a real witch was put to death. In many regions, like Cornwall, Essex, Sussex, Devon, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Wales, Scotland etc, the witches kept in the dark, hidden for the persecutors like the crazy king James (yes the one who lend his name tot the King James Bible).
Let’s now turn to Wicca for a moment. Gerald Gardner travelled the world to seek out many magical traditions to gather information, to compare, to merge various Witchcraft and Magick traditions, among that Guna Guna, Voodoo/Hoodoo, ceremonial magick, Oreo Temple Orientis, Argentum Astrum (Crowley), Freemasonry and anything that he seemed fit to incorporate in to his new magical system, which he named Wicca. From the 1950’s his new religion became quite popular with many branches that came forth from. Now In Wicca the Wind Directions and the four elements are different: East: Air, North: Earth, West: Water, South: Fire. Let’s now compare that to Cornish Traditional Witchcraft:
As I have said, in Cornish Traditional Witchcraft, and other British and Celtic Traditions the elements are situated different. East: Fire, North: Wind, West: Water (the only similarity with Wicca), the South: Earth. As you can see there are animals associated with the elements, but it would take a bit to much time now to go into details about that. Another important difference is that in Wicca a circle is casted, this is done clockwise, but in Cornish Traditional Witchcraft ‘the compass is laid’ and is is done witheshins or ‘against the clock’. The workings are done according to the seasons and the eight high feasts, but also dependent on the workings. There is much practice and learning involved and it is not a hobby, but a way of life (but that is of course also the case with Wicca or any other tradition.
tymologically speaking the word Witch means: someone who has knowledge, from the Germanic/Anglo-Saxon ‘Wit’, what ‘question, quest or a thing (ding) that needs to be answered’ means. Also the Germanic word ‘wet’ what ‘law’ of ‘outcome of a (legal) matter’ means. 
Morghain’s Traditional Witchcraft 