Studying to advance

5 July 20245 July 2024 MorghaineLeave a comment

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.

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There’s nothing like forbidden knowledge

16 February 2024 MorghaineLeave a comment

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.

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Signs that you are a witch

31 December 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

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:

You were interested in witchcraft since you were a kid
You love to be in nature a feel the need to protect nature
You feel connected to the moon
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
You are a strong connection to animals and you have ability to communicate with them (or you want to)
You experience emotions intense, also from others
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)
Health is very important, you rather choose nature supplements over chemicals, but you choose wisely
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

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Betwixed the Worlds

27 December 202327 December 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

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

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Seeing is NOT believing

17 December 202317 December 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

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.

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Inventorying my books

27 November 202317 December 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

N a few months I’m going to move. In preparation of that I’m taking inventory of my books. Now they are not sorted on subject, because my bookshelves are not optimized, so they are here and there, out and about. I’m going to buy real bookshelves, so I can sort them out. When I’m ready and all are sorted on subject, I will start making videos on my YouTube channel on the books I’ve read. The preparation will take a few months, but I will post regularly.

At this moment in time, I’ve only done three of my 14 bookshelves, so I still have a lot to do. When I’ve moved I will buy new bookshelves on put everything on subject. Now that’s not possible, because the quality of my current bookshelves is poor, and some shelves are just not high enough to store all the books. To be continued.

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Going back to my Roots

18 September 202317 December 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

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!

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What does Witchcraft mean?

24 July 202315 September 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

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.

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What is Traditional Witchcraft

24 July 202315 September 2023 MorghaineLeave a comment

N the 1950’s Gerald Gardner introduced Wicca to the world as a new revival of Witchcraft. In 1950 the Witchcraft Act of 1735 ¹⁾ was abolished, and Gardner thought the time was right to proclaim Witchcraft still existed and proclaimed to be a witch. By then Wicca became a new religion , with many modern branches.

But not only christianity became furious about the open proclamation of witchcraft out in the open. Witches were always around, in counties like Cornwall, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Essex and Sussex, but remained in the shadows and protected by secrecy and those who still hired them for many a reason.

Cecil Williamson, the founder of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (first on the Isle of Man and later in Boscastle in Cornwall, was a a representative of the Old Arte not very pleased with the openness about Witchcraft, as ages of persecution passed and the Arte survived because of secrecy.

Nowadays both Wicca and Traditional Witchcraft gain popularity as the role of the church is waining and people are returning to the Old Ways.

NOTE

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