#folk witch

[serpentandthreads]

Something I feel like people getting into folk magic need to understand, for many people of many backgrounds, is folk magic started as a means of survival. It was struggle magic, and it is still struggle magic.

Where I'm living now and where I'm from, people planted by the signs to ensure their crops wouldn't go bad before harvesting. People used ocean water to soothe joint and muscle pains when they got old. People studied the native plants for medicine and were mindful to only take what was needed. People did little rituals and minded their grannies' words to keep their good luck. If they didn't know how to do something (or couldn't), they went to people who did.

Learning folk magic to reconnect with ancestral traditions from before your time is valid. Learning folk magic to connect with and work with the land is valid. There are many valid reasons to take up folk magic. Still, understand that folk magic is survival, and folk magic is community.

[thesorceresstemple]

[iridescent-witch-life]

📷 Gritchenwitch

[folkandbooks]

Pshh, hey. If you are in a budget or if you have to hide your practice, I have some witchy tips for you.

• You don’t need to have an altar. But if you want to, creating an altar on a wooden box is great; you can collect stuff to put in there and you can hide it under your bed.

• You don’t need crystals. Common rocks can be energised to act with a certain intention and they work just as well. You can also associate the place you got the stone/rock from with an intention, such as: a rock from a river or sea can be used for cleansing, purifying, taking energies away from you. A stone found at the property of a hospital can be used for health spells. These are vague examples, so I might make a list later on of all kinds of things you can do with mineral founding.

• Energised water is a great offering to most entities. Water holds memory and it’s easy to energise it with a certain intention if you concentrate.

• You don’t actually need candles. For many deities, an object that remembers you of them works as a taglock, an identification of the deity you’re worshipping. Besides, many spells do not need candles to work, such as: ritual baths, petitions, etc.

Have fun, and remember that your practice isn’t meant to look the same as other practitioners’. We are supposed to do things our own way, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone or anything.

[bbgirl-aesthetic20]

[witchboxco]

1579

[magpiethepunkfairy]

Gonna learn how to sew a knit and crochet for the sole purpose of making things to wrap my friends in

[daught3rsofcain]

♡ Grimoire Ideas for the Folk Catholic Witch ♡

~ Spiritual Warfare

~ Biblical Herbs

~ Biblical Crystals

~ History of the Christian Pentagram (I have a post on this that might be helpful!)

~ Knot Magic

~ The Rosary

~ St. Benedict Medal

~ Old Folk Remedies (medical, protection, etc.)

~ Catholic Holidays

~ Prayers

~ Classes of Angels

~ Psalms and how to use them

~ Levels of Heaven

~ The Archangels and how they can help

~ History of Folk Magic

~ Christian symbols

~ History of Jesus Christ

~ Rundown on Veiling

~ Meditation

~ Facts about Exorcisms

~ Things Demons Hate (to use in spells and rituals for warding)

p.s. this research will go along with the exorcism stuff, look up what they hate according to exorcists.

~ Facts about The Church

~ The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Avoid Them

[malukeando]

mutuals continue to arrive because of my previous post but right now I am on a new search:

christopagan /christian or catholic witch

folk witch

christian/catholic sympathizer with other religions

works with angels/saints/mary/jesus

PRAYERS, someone who likes to write PRAYERS

reblog, like, say hi, I'm looking for you

[bendiciones444]

wallpaper ♡ ✨

[idgie-stark]

In my 20+ years of practicing, the one thing I know for sure about witchcraft and paganism is this...

This is YOUR path.

Not your grandmas'.

Not the ancestors'.

Not the ancients'.

Their practice was their own.

You may have started with them. They may have taught you some things. You may have learned some things from books or even archeology and anthropology studies. But, in the end...it's YOURS.

So, does that mean you stop reading or listening? No. Keep doing that. Just don't let others tell you how YOUR practice should look.

Maybe you want to follow 'the old ways'. Maybe that brings you comfort to do what others have done before you. Just don't ever let it restrict you. Don't let it make you feel trapped.

[serpentandthreads]

Your local forest cryptid here to give y'all a few reminders:

• Christians didn't steal everything from pagans.

• Just because the Romans did it doesn't mean we should do it, too.

• Celtic is a very broad term that consists of what are now multiple different countries, and every one of them are different in culture. They are not a monolith. Don't treat them as a monolith.

[witchescollection]

one of the biggest questions i feel folks on tumblr are always trying to answer is "how do i be better? how do i get to the next level of witchcraft? how do i access advanced stuff?" and the thing is, babes, is that that shit isn't external.

you become an "advanced witch" when you stop categorising topics as beginner or intermediate or advanced! there are no rules.

a lot of people make an effort to warn so-called "baby witches" away from different types of magick - "don't do love magick or hexing ever! don't contact X deity until you've been practicing for a year! you have to have been practicing for at least a month to do a spell!" - why? what does that achieve, apart from perpetuating fear mongering and policing others religion?

it comes from this idea that there's a right way to practice, and more importantly, that if you fuck something up then that's sacrilege. if you give a deity the wrong offering they'll be angry with you (and that's the end of that relationship). if you do a love spell without considering the effects then you'll do irreparable damage and be shamed!! you must follow these ideas, that crystals and tarot and candles (conveniently all the things that require you to spend money) are "beginner-friendly" and everything that our ancestors would have done is too advanced for you.

whatever experience you're on is personal to you. no-one knows more than you about your practice than you. if you wanna do a hex, some post on tumblr shouldn't going to stop you. if you fuck it up, you'll learn!

and frankly, witchblr would be a better place if we stopped looking at everything as a strict guide to follow, and as a place where we all share what our practice looks like, and approach each other with curiosity instead of pride and superiority.

[psychopomp-recital]

Beginning ways to test the waters if you’re considering the Death Witch/Worker path.

✦ Cemetery & Graveyard Volunteer Work

- Picking Up Trash

- Cleaning Tombstones

- Grave Cataloging

✦ Death Doula Certifications

- Mundane, but will allow access

✦ Funerary Rites & Customs

- Research different cultures

~ *more than your own*

- Research certifications to perform them

✦ Ancestor Work

- your cultural customs

- generational trauma

- asking for aide in workings

- and so on…

✦ Spirit Work

- starting with local spirits

- animal spirits

- plant spirits

- kinds of spirits

- and so on…

✦ Forensic Sciences

- how death affects the body

✦ Religious Beliefs

- kinds of Underworlds

- kinds of Otherworlds

- kinds of souls

- what happens after death

- death & chthonic deities

While I do think it is important to have a mentor of some kind, hopefully this can let you test the waters a bit.

[folkandbooks]

Folk witch tip #2

Someone did you dirty but you don’t want to get down into the nitty-gritty? Instead of hexing or cursing, bless them.

Bless them to learn their lesson sooner rather than later. Trust me, life lessons hurt.

Ooooor, you can bless the people around them to see their true nature.

You’ll make them pay for sure ✨

[bbgirl-aesthetic20]