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May 2025

May 24, 2025

Shattered Illusions: Stories of Pre-Internet Days

As a gentleman of a middling age, being barely in the arse-end of Generation X,...

February 2025

February 17, 2025

Witchcraft in Reality: A Rebuttal

A little over a year ago, medieval historian and podcaster, Eleanor Janega wrote a blog...

January 2025

January 22, 2025

The Devil and the Sun King: The Affair of the Poisons

Whenever we think of historic accounts of witchcraft, there are a number of cases that...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

Feast of the Gods: Outrage and Parody…

"Our idea was inclusion... Naturally when we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

Privilege and Witchcraft

Within modern witchcraft, two positions have made themselves apparent in recent years that is somewhat...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Father Time: Ring out, wild bells…

veritas filia temporis The Midwinter, especially around the solstitial event of the sun’s apparent stasis...

December 08, 2023

Midwinter Traditions – From Wild Hunt to Festive Spirit

There has been much made in recent decades about the pagan origins of Christmas customs....

October 2023

October 05, 2023

We need to talk about the Witchcraft Act 1735…

If you have been a student of witchcraft and Wicca for any length of time,...

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Navigating the Witch Compass

As cognitive beings, narrative coheres humankind, the mechanism of story bonding us in an associative...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

The House is Still on Fire – Witchcraft Against Climate Crisis

In previous posts, I have written with some concern about the climate crisis that’s...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Whistling the Winds of Beltane

“South wind —heat and produce, North wind—cold and tempest, West wind—fish and milk, East wind—fruit...

January 2021

January 18, 2021

The Saining of Brigit – A Ritual For Candlemas (Imbolc)

This ritual for Imbolc, Saining of Brigit, appeals to Brigit in the context of initiation...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Punk Witchcraft: A Manifesto?

Witchcraft has been a subversive facet of culture since time immemorial. Incorporating inversion, reversion and...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

Losing Your Head At Midsummer – An Ancient Rite Revisited

The following is an extract from Pax Deorum - A Modern Witchcraft Primer, 2018, by...

April 2020

April 14, 2020

St George – A Cainite Myth?

The legend of St George may be an initiatory myth in which a ritual enactment...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

A Journey To Spiral Castle in Traditional Witchcraft

In Britain the tradition of Spiral Castle survives in the Easter Maze dance of country villages,...

March 15, 2020

Pilgrim’s Progress: A Journey We All Make Through the Year

The purpose of the pilgrimage is relevant to cultures across the world and spanning time....

January 2020

January 30, 2020

The Witch’s Stang: The Hope of Man from Every Angle

The Witch's Stang is often thought to have been introduced into modern practice by the...

January 15, 2020

The Witch’s Compass: Finding Direction With The Seven Winds

Within Traditional Witchcraft, the concept of the Compass sometimes erroneously replaces that of the Circle....

December 2019

December 01, 2019

The Old Devil Saint Nick

The Santa Claus we now know, incorporating the older British Father Christmas and Lord of...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

Initiation: ReBirthing Pains

So, you really want an initiation? A word to the wise: if you are completely...

November 05, 2019

Keep a Crooked Sixpence

Like many cultures and countries, Britain and America share a rich history of fairy and...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Rita Morgan: Witch Mother, Force of Nature, Passing Beyond the Veil

On the morning of September 23rd, the Pagan community lost one if its most stalwart...

March 2019

March 10, 2019

The Wu Way…Going With The Flow

無 Wu - emptiness, the pregnant void Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

Flags, Flax and Fodder – A Benediction Explored

Fýr, fleax, fódder, frið (Fire, Flax, Fodder & Frith) Since the private letters of Robert...

August 07, 2018

Warlock – Breaker of God’s Covenant

"Lo, I have not been mindful of the sons of men, but the tribe of...

June 2018

June 07, 2018

The Welsh Occult Conference 2018

On Saturday, 2nd June, we made our merry way to the debut of what is...

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