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A Word to the Witch

History of witchcraft

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October 2015

October 15, 2015

Faery Your Information

There's a new Faery website up.

May 2015

May 18, 2015

Word Magic: The Sator Square

Most people would tell you that there are no unbroken religious traditions that survive from...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Initiation and the Witch

Do you need initiation to be a Traditional Witch? I would say so, though it...

August 2014

August 23, 2014

The Importance of Attribution

I love this rendition of "Earth My Body." I love the additional music, I love...

August 21, 2014

Dead, Mad, or a Poet (Feri part 3)

The number of creative types in Feri is poetically apt and mythologically resonant, but I...

August 20, 2014

Historical Witchcraft, Shamanism and the Modern Witch

This conception of witch as shaman points to a divergence in modern witchcraft. To some...

August 14, 2014

Feri, An Apparent Digression (part 2)

Sometimes, when I start talking about F(a)er(i/y), someone will look confused and ask, “What does...

August 06, 2014

Witchcraft and Shamanism

There is a large and growing body of evidence in anthropological and historical literature that...

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