You don't have to believe them when they tell you that your uniqueness is a sickness, that to defy them will mean your undoing, that it makes you the enemy.
Read MoreI will shake my hips and the ground will quake. I will open my wings and the wind will come.
Read MoreI am an animist, and trees most definitely have spirits. If you spend time outside, you’d do well to spend at least some of it beneath a tree.
Read MoreAs global warming produces conditions favourable for the breeding of mosquitoes and the spread of malaria (or ague as it was once known), this essay looks at the lore associating it with hags and witches, who paradoxically were believed to cause and cure it.
Read MoreI adore folk lore, superstitions and old wives tales, from all over the world. There are stories and sayings about almost everything you can think of from trees, to birds to the weird and wonderful. I believe such stories give a great deal of insight into humanity’s relationship with the natural world, and highlight the common thread that runs through whilst at the same time celebrating our differences. These stories can help to deepen our understanding of and thus our connection to the land. Here I’ll share with you some of my favourite tree lore.
Read MoreBeing placed within Paganism for quite a few decades now, the genre of “Native Spirituality” has been a convenience entirely directed by white people.
Read MoreWe must make those who think that Paganism tolerates abusive, controlling behaviour aware that they have no place within our traditions.
Read More‘the disappearance of “the hedge of mist, and the magic and enchantment”… symbolises the banishing of the gods of the mist and practitioners of weather magic from Britain’
Read More"[S]ince it has become increasingly clear that stocks, and even money itself, is entirely based on a perception of value, which is by nature subjective and mutable, the only question becomes how that perception of value is influenced? And who is doing the influencing?”
Read MoreDon’t you think ghost stories are another herald of the darker months? Not the stories of gore designed to frighten and elicit screams, but stories with more than a hint of truth, the stories of loss and tragedy…
Read Morethe fourth episode of Empires Crumble, the podcast by Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth
Read MoreThis is the time to learn of nature and all of the hidden delights.
Read MoreFolk magic belongs to the poor and dispossessed wherever that may be. It doesn't belong to any one people, isn't black magic or white magic. It's magic for the everyday. It's the magic of the people.
Read MoreA new course offering from Anthony Rella and Académie Hérétique
Read MoreAs I write this, the solstice is almost upon us. I always think that this time of year takes on an almost dreamlike quality, and time seems to warp into something else so that the New Year and Imbolc seem like distant memories and like yesterday all at the same time.
Read MoreDo not allow others to tame your craft. Do not tame it yourself out of fear that others will look down on you or reject you. Embrace your wildness. Sometimes it may alienate you from those others who dare not lose themselves in the wild.
Read More“I’m not really alone, that my solitary acts are not really solitary, not if they are practised by many, many others, each resisting in their own little way, doing what they can.”
Read MoreThose of us who know that this world is a mysterious place, who have not forgotten our place and inter-connectedness within it, who remember and hold dear the knowledge that the stuff of stars is also inside of us too, it will be us who must be ready to fight, when the time comes.
Read MoreWe look out for one another. These are my people, but I am not theirs. They know it and so do I. I am a part of their world, and not of it. I am witch.
Read MoreWe must be fierce, and so must our witchcraft.
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