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Studying to advance
Explination · Witchcraft & Magick

Studying to advance

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FOR me, as for all serious practitioners of any magic(k) system study is of the utmost importance. Those who think and act as ‘know-it-all’ just prove themselves to be fake as hell. When you’re not willing to learn you’ll remain ignorant.

I’ve met a lotta people with that attitude. It’s one of the reasons I’m willing to take a pupil or share any of my rituals, sometimes I do. I was brought up to advance through hardship and tribulations. Only that path will bring you a powerful kinda magic that works. I also was brought up not to take any information as legit and intrinsically powerful from a witchcraft book of spells. It can work for the witch who wrote it; I will always say it will get money in their pocket, and that’s the only powerful thing about it so their intentions are fulfilled, but their followers are being misled by ‘the air of importance’. I must say that ‘a the case about ‘modern magick and witchcraft. Books by folk- or traditional witches I do take serious!

  • A spell or ritual is composed by the witch or inherited though lineage and proved to be powerful, otherwise study is necessary to find out what you’ve missed to become successful
  • It is properly prepared and all requirements are met (moonfase, preparation, the right sequence, incantations, spirits, divinities, requirements)
  • It needs magical power through what we call ‘the Becoming’ , a trance like state and gathering Sprouse (the gathering of magical power or Red Serpent’s power’ otherwise it will not work
  • It’s not a ‘one size fits all’ solution, so gathering information on the why and how (like in the case of protection witchcraft and this is not easy to explain in brief)
  • It’s most of the times not easily done just by following instructions from a book

One must realize it’s not a hobby but a way of life and a profession. There is no easy way. It is witch-craft.

There’s nothing like forbidden knowledge
Witchcraft

There’s nothing like forbidden knowledge

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IT was monotheism, in all of its controversies, that gave way to ‘holy’ scriptures that forbade humankind to acquire any kind of knowledge outside of the parameters that clergy prescribed. What is: many scripture passages, like the Garden of Eden story, that warned humankind to gain knowledge. Now that’s only an explanation that men in power used to subdue the masses that were held in ignorance. A littoral explanation of, mainly, fundamentalistic christianity, ignoring the huge amount of interpretations commonly known within Judaism. All for the upholding of christian dogmatics, hermeneutics and theology.

Then cane the Middle Ages, with the, still held in high esteem, Maleus Malificarum , which set the tone for persecutions of ‘so called’ witches, the majority of them being christian, women or just being a persona non grata, old or demonized simply for not fitting in.

Yes, the wise ones, healers, expellers (pellets in Cornish), wayside witches and folk magicians were always there. Just as everywhere else the good had to suffer because of the bad ones, but just look at church history that killed around 600 million innocent people.

The clergy raised there finger, working about, what the deemed to be ‘forbidden knowledge’. A lot of these ‘forbidden books’ are still under lock and key within the Vatican. But many of these books like the Picatrix, the Red Dragon, the lesser and greater key of Salomon, the Kymbalion, the works of Abramelin the Mage, High Magic by Eliphas Levi and later works, inspired by the former, by Aleister Crowley, Anton Szandor LaVey (like the Satanic Bible ao), Michael W. Ford, found there way into the bookshelves and practice of many.

With the popularized Wiccan movement also came works from the Clan of Tubal-Cain and books about Traditional Witchcraft (British from the publisher Troy Books UK and books about the American Appalachian Witchcraft. People can find out Magic for themselves without restriction.

Signs that you are a witch
Witchcraft

Signs that you are a witch

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SOME people ask: how can I become a witch? It is much simpler than that: one is born a witch, here are a few signs that you are born a witch:

  1. You were interested in witchcraft since you were a kid
  2. You love to be in nature a feel the need to protect nature
  3. You feel connected to the moon
  4. You have intens feeling a about the Netherworld, maybe you’ve seen ghosts, spirits, the little people (goblins, pixies, leprechauns, fairies) or a least you know they exist
  5. You are a strong connection to animals and you have ability to communicate with them (or you want to)
  6. You experience emotions intense, also from others
  7. You like to study Magick and Witchcraft and all things related and have more than average knowledge and wisdom (and/or to attain more of it)
  8. Health is very important, you rather choose nature supplements over chemicals, but you choose wisely
  9. You have premonitions about events in dreams or during daytime

Maybe it run in the family, or you’ve regained some of much of what I call ‘soul-memory’, knowledge and wisdom of former lives.

If some or all of the above apply to to, and maybe you’ve stumbled upon my webpage it it a valuable step in the process of becoming (or acknowledging you are) a witch.

Furthermore you’ll have to find out what’s your focus.

  • When you’re born in Scandinavia you’ll have a tendency to Seidr Witchcraft and/or shamanism
  • When you’re born in the UK it could be regional firm if folk- and traditional witchcraft, the same goes for you ancestry
  • Etc

Just start your journey and if you have any questions feel free to ask me

Initiations
initiations · Witchcraft

Initiations

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In Traditional Witchcraft initiations are vital. It’s not as easy as becoming a Wiccan and every Coven, Circle, Grove or group have their own prerequisites, conditions and often tests. My own prerequisites are likewise. Novices have to stand the tests and before that I must know who someone really is, their attitude, stubbornness of those who refuse to be taught, because ‘the know everything’. The last example is someone I would absolutely refuse. My own Craft, Rites, Initiations and Grades require a mental, spiritual and intellectual receptiveness, otherwise I simply refuse to share anything.

Magick and Witchcraft is not to be taken lightly, it can heal and destroy and everything I do takes time, effort and most of all discipline.

I even don’t want to talk on my blog about the outer perimeters of my Craft, the divinities, rituals and tools. I have complex ones and nothing ‘electric’, like a mixture of thing I like and others I dislike. My Grimoire is about 700 pages with incantations, initiations, of which some have to be learned by heart. There is ancient language involved and that’s why initiations can take time, forming a Counsel, different function in order to become potent. Secrecy is required and transgressions or offenses against the rules have severe consequences. That’s all I can say about it.

There are many secret societies who have similar conditions, that’s why I will stay in the shadows and not advertise.

Betwixed the Worlds
Witchcraft & Magick

Betwixed the Worlds

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Traditional Witchcraft has always worked with ‘otherworldly creatures’ like Pixies or Piskies, Elves, the Fae (Fairies), Brownies (not the chocolate cookies), Goblins and other so-called Fairytale-creatures, ghosts, Spirits. This comes natural to people like me, hereditary witches, Wise, Cunning Folk, Pellars, Folk & Wayside Witches.

For me it where just the first sights of the Gifts to reveal themselves and for me, my mother already saw the inevitable sighs just after my birth and when I started to speak I already worked with the Netherworlds and familiar spirits as a second nature.

My mom started asking questions as a part of initiations. Working on my own cane naturally, I only corporately on rare occasions, seldom to none.

I think non-hereditary witches can learn the art of working with the otherworldly powers, but guided by a accomplished witch and only when they’re ready to work on their own when they’ve become accomplished themselves.

Witchcraft can seldom do without the guidance of the otherworldly power, otherwise it’s nothing else than COSplay or LARP, it looks nice but is hollow and powerless

Seeing is NOT believing
Witchcraft

Seeing is NOT believing

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ITCHCRAFT is not something you have to believe in to make changes your life. Believing is something monotheistic religions invented to keep people from using their intellect and ‘sixth sense’. You have to believe in their non-sense, one of these believes is that witchcraft and magic(k) are bad. It is bad for their income and power-hunger to control the masses. In the days before christianity witchcraft and magic was the realm of healers, wise ones and those who acquired knowledge of cattle, farming, hunting, to lift curses of to cast them. People knew their way to the Wise, the Pellars, the wayside witches, the wizards, the druids and shamans.

Now Traditional has never been eradicated by all means, because, in the UK for example, in regions like Cornwall, Devon, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Wales, Scotland (mostly Celtic regions), Witches were and are always present, despite of christianity who wanted to eradicate magic folk. Also in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Romania, the Americas, folk magic and other forms of magic never died out, it was preserved.

You don’t need faith for it to work, it simply works, but you have to be cautious of the charlatans, who make use of superstitious believes. Nowadays I encounter a lot of fakers who want to earn money and take advantage of superstitions, they are the worst of all. It’s not, by any means, prohibited to ask money for services, as long as they really help, but saying “I sense something about you, do you want a reading?”. I usually say: “no, I can do my own readings”. If I need any, I can use a witch friend whom I trust.

All the bad religions ask for some kinda blind faith, we don’t, because, like I said before, I simply works.

Why secrecy in Traditional Witchcraft
Explination · Witchcraft

Why secrecy in Traditional Witchcraft

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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 The Crooked Path and The Witch Compass, an ever growing number of books at Troy Books UK and Scarlet Imprint. I also recommend visiting The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall UK. If you are a Wiccan you should notice that there are so many differences, like the wind directions and their associated Elements, and also many other focusses and associations. When you’re interested never consider to be eclectic about, for example, laying the compass in combination with the Wiccan wind directions; this is not compatible and can result in catastrophic magical repercussions, because of the spirits, creatures and divinities that are bound to these individual associations.

I don’t want to scare you, but for that you need to be educated, because this knowledge is important, and also education and guidance is needed if you are new and unfamiliar. Sometimes you need to rethink and redefine all the aspects. Traditional Witchcraft goes way back before christianity. Also there I nothing like ‘black’ or ‘white’ witchcraft; you could say that no duality applies when is comes to Traditional Witchcraft.

Working with herbs and plants is a exact science, but also the rituals surrounding ebats and sabbaths, the attributes necessary, invocations, spells, charms, energies, spirits, divinities, earth- and sky creatures, the place, time etcetera. You can’t also expect to be an expert on every matter, every Witch, Wayside Witch, Wise One, Pellar, to name a few designations, is a specialist of some sort, but some of us are more or less familiar with more than one specialization.

You have to go on a path to find the ones that are willing to help you on your path, and the one whom you chose of the one who chose you will help and instruct you, but we are careful and will test you before laying things on the table. Secrecy is therefore a must. In chemistry you aren’t trusted with sulfur and other hazardous chemicals if you aren’t educated in how to used them, you could get hurt or hurt others. That’s why secrecy and carefulness is a vital ingredient.

Craftwomenship
Witchcraft

Craftwomenship

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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.

We don’t need to have a pin on the map of the important illusionists, becoming rich by misleading the many good believing thousands and presenting themselves as ‘unmistakably important’. I see it all around me. Some pretend to be extraordinary gifted by suggesting “there is a lot of negative energy around me that has to be dealt with”. I don’t know why some of these folks see things that aren’t there, but I guess it is a way to promote their business, like the christian property preachers. My grandfather and mother never promoted their ‘business’, we just kept on doing the things that came our way without advertising and certainly not “getting rich of the money of the poor, and they certainly they need to get by in their day-to-day lives” and acting to be important.

We practice our craft in the shadows, unseen by the multitude of the mislead. Is is a craft that has been learned though hardship, failure, perfected and yet never perfect; always learning, seeking. We don’t sell grimoires with ‘one size fits all’ spells, cures and success formulas. Sometimes I get so annoyed from what I see, but then again I don’t want to get involved with all of this. The world is full of actors on a stage of make-believe.

A Craft

Has your Magic become a craft? Otherwise is just new age play around. Did you go deep through hardship and pain, being misunderstood and yet becoming determined? Then it will surely become witchcraft and you will eventually succeed in what you’re doing. Only don’t give up! Always rely on your intuition, but stay in balance, study and never be a follower of a movement. There’s nothing wrong with being solitary, there’s also nothing wrong being in a Grove Coven of Circle. Only be sure not to be distracted towards some kind of sect. Am I perfect? No, I’ve been there too. The ones that passed away still are there when I need guidance. Spirits are there to help whenever you need it. You always start out as an apprentice before you become a teacher of some sort. There is one thing: your practice is unique, your rituals may work for your own sake, but it doesn’t have to work for anyone else, accept for those you practice in a group. A craft has to be perfected and sometimes formalized. Working on your (mutual) practice is a journey until it has become in a state of perfection.

The Maleus Malificarum
Persecution · Religion · Witchcraft

The Maleus Malificarum

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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.

SUGGEST that every witch, feminist and those who are interested in researching (traditional) witchcraft, should read the Maleus Malificarum, just for the sake of knowing why, almost every book and movie, is still influenced by this evil book. Movies like ‘the last witch-hunter’ 3) Hans und Gretl 4) still represent the witch-image that the Maleus Malificarum portrayed of witches and women in general. Also Sabrina the Teenage Witch 5) had elements of the caricature of the witch that was portrayed in the Maleus Malificarum.

Study is one of the main and important powers of witchcraft, ignorance is a no-go, also just repeating what others have said, without forming your own opinions the witch stays vulnerable and misunderstood. That’s why a witch needs have wisdom, bur wisdom needs knowledge and knowledge requires study.

Bennigys re bi 

Notes

1) Wikipedia
2) The Witch-hunts
3) Hans und Gretl Movie
4) The Last Witch Hunter Movie
5) Sabrina the Teenage Witch

What does Witchcraft mean?
Witchcraft

What does Witchcraft mean?

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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.

When someone had a burning question, or something that needed to be answered as a law about a matter, they went to the ‘ding’, a wise one usually set under an oak- or other holy tree to speak out on the matter, the one who was the spokesperson (woman or man) than decided on the ‘wit’. So that’s why that wise one was called a witch or wizard, both fro the same root word ‘wit’

Knowledge was transferred from parent to child or if the child was unfit to another family member of a student. That took years.

One thing was knowledge of wisdom in various matters like fertility, cattle, crops, scrying, counseling the spirits, ancestors etc. There were family ‘covens’ or ‘groves’, circles, but in traditional witchcraft we often find solitary practitioners with are specialists in matter. We also provide solutions to determine if someone is cursed at provide a counter curse. Specialist in counter curses are called ‘pellars’ in Cornwall and neighboring regions.

There is nothing like ‘black’ or ‘white’ magic, because that’s a dualistic concept that is alien to the Old Craft.