Brooms and Besoms: History and Lore
Photo by Jessica Furtney on Unsplash
The humble broom is one of the oldest human inventions. The earliest brooms likely consisted of leafy branches or bundles of twigs,...
Menageries of Magic
From the Old World to the New, throughout history and within pop culture, witches, both real and imagined, have been a source of enduring...
Ways to Embrace Your Inner Witch
Feature image: Photo by Halanna Halila on Unsplash
• Love yourself, warts and all.
• Discover the charm and good fortune of black cats. Or any cats. Or any animal...
A Lovely Spell from Our Cover Witch: Old School Bruja
Here's a lovely spell from our cover witch Old School Bruja (you can also find this on her blog):
It is that time of year...
Medicine and Magic
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE PARKE
It’s estimated that only about 1 percent of people possess the sense of smell in their dreams. It may come as...
Honoring the Forest: A Guided Meditation
Honoring the forest is an easy thing. Arched boughs and weaving trails practically demand reverence. Those of us who feel drawn to nature often...
Signs You May Be A Wood Nymph
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
• If you go longer than a week without visiting the woods, you start to fade and pine, whether it’s...
The Secret To Wild Plants
Sometimes when you’ve been doing something for a while, it can be easy to forget where you started. Every now and then, someone comes...
Moon Magic
Feature Image: Photo by Ganapathy Kumar on Unsplash
I was lying down in the charred skeleton of the cast iron bed in what used to be my bedroom....
Celestial Fairies
Midnight is the fairy hour, and the edge of night is when their revels begin. But to the Victorian and Edwardian imagination, fairies not...