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The Becoming
Explination · Witchcraft

The Becoming

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VERY important part of the Traditional Witches’ practice, is what we call ‘the Becoming’. It is a trance-like state, not infused by drugs, though sometimes natural means, mostly plants from the Nightshade family can be used, with caution, though the Becoming is an essential state of mind, in combination with ‘gathering Sprouse’, a Cornish word for ‘the power of the Red Serpent, AKA the Magical Power that infuses the Earth. This is not something just drawn from the Earth fort our own benefit. The Law of Receiving and Giving is of the utmost importance. Some choose a shortcut by summoning Spirits, but in the Old Ways it’s a way of respect and a long road of patience and hardship to undergo as a means go discipline and hard work. I feel that any shortcut will never gain any benefit. The most powerful witches and wizard acquired their strength without any shortcut.

https://paleoleap.com/nightshades/Without the God of Witchcraft, in Cornwall Bucca, nothing can be accomplished. Hallowing the land and the creature therein, is to hallow Bucca, Who is intrinsically connected to the soil and its magic. Everything, visible and invisible is connected to the Bucca or The Cornish Devel. Traditional Witchcraft is therefore not an easy road to succes, and one of the ways in acquiring the necessary power is ‘the Becoming’. I certainly would recommend the Book: Traditional Witchcraft, a Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary. A lot can be said about that, but those who seek shall find.

Traditional Witchcraft vs Wicca
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Traditional Witchcraft vs Wicca

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Traditional Witchcraft vs Wicca

HERE have been a few articles and YouTube videos that claim that ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ is ‘the original religion that was introduced by Gerald Gardner’. This is a misleading and incorrect conclusion, based upon the fact that ‘the original forms of western witchcraft had died out because of the witch-hunts’. Now there are several reasons that this was never the case:

  • During the Witch-hunts that formally began with the introduction of the Maleus Malificarum (the Hammer of the witches by Heinrich Kramer & Jacob Sprenger). Scholars found out that there were no ‘real witches’ persecuted, but rather old and suspected women that did not fit the required role of submissive women and thus were suspected of being witches. Most of the were christian
  • Those men and women that didn’t conform to standard church doctrine, they also could be priests, ministers and/or were from other denominations.

Those witches, wise ones, druids, folk healers and pellars (a Cornish term for those who can provide counter curses) where still held in high regard and were protected by those who needed their services, some of them were persecuted, but quite a number escaped and survived.

The notion that the original form of witchcraft died out and thus Wicca is the only remaining form of western witchcraft that remains until today is therefore totally wrong. Families and individuals that kept their traditions survived because of secrecy and still exist in UK regions like Cornwall, Devonshire, Dartmouth, Exmoor, Wales, Scotland etcetera.

Other forms of magic like Rootworking (Hoodoo/Voodoo) Shamanism, Gipsy Witchcraft (Romania etc), Guna Guna (Indonesia), Seidr (Scandinavia) survived the wheel of time.

Now I notices a number of articles and videos where people suggest and claim that ‘Gardnerian Wicca in its original form is Traditional Witchcraft. One should study books, among those published by Troy Books Uk to see that Traditional Witchcraft is still alive and kicking

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.

No christian influences
Religion · Witchcraft

No christian influences

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Sone traditional witches have incorporated christian influences and portions of the Bible. I come from a tradition free from those influences, because of the harm Christianity has done and because in our villagers who encountered us used to spit on the ground when they saw us. We never went to church, though my mom sometimes went on Christmas Eve or when the Mattheus Passion was preformed with the Dutch opera singer Marco Bakker.

My father, not in any way a witch, but a socialist pur sang, just hated christianity , because of his own past with his father and stepmother. I never set foot in a church before 1985, when I was lured into the Pentecostal church and stayed there until 2015 and left with aversion and hatred because of their attitude against LGBTQIAPQ people and other religions.

Because of my past I swore to remove all remnants of christiany and the bible and never incorporate any influences into my practice. I researched on Wicca also and the Cult of Tubal-Kain and the influence of christianiy in Traditional witchcraft and Folk Pratices and found to many biblical influences and couldn’t understand why this religion still had so much of an impact, for me it’s a ninefold NO.

I went back to my roots, for my any name of the Jewish and christian god has any significance to me, no charm, blessing or curse with these abominable names of the biblical god has any relationship with my practice. It took me years of rituals to get rid of those remnants, so for me any circle, coven of grove that has some relation with the bible would ever fit in my life.

A few years i was with the Satanic Temple, but they are very much against the supernatural, and it was just too much of the same and often just make belief fakeism for me

Am I a black witch? There ain’t nothing like that in traditional witchcraft, though there are benevolent and malevolent witches, but nothing like white witch Wicca and the ‘Wiccan Rede’. It’s hard to explain, because I don’t share my practice, only to the seekers who are already familiar with the Craft. I do respect Wiccans, though, but it’s not my path.

I hold my practice free of the evil bible and any christian influence and that has healed a lot of wounds that were inflicted upon me in 30 years of Pentecostal influences. I studied church history and the influence the Maleus Maleficarum had, which even today influences the ‘Satanic Panic’ and ‘Witch Panic’ caused by fundamentalistic religions.

For a life without ‘biblical influences’ is a great life.

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