From the Autumn Equinox until just after the Wild Hunt rides out around Samhain is the Season of the Witch. People all over...
This greasy, trance-inducing substance was traditionally made of hallucinogenic (and often fatal) herbs that had been boiled in pig...
Between earthly incarnations, witches believe the soul rests in the Land of Faery, a pagan paradise like the Celtic...
This important document in the history of witchcraft is at least as old as the beginning of...
The Brocken, also called the Blocksberg, was the most famous meeting place for witches in Europe. An old-fashioned...
This ritual was one of fasting to aid concentration, for some particular purpose. It was alleged to have...
The best-known Biblical text referring to witchcraft is verse 18 in the twenty-second chapter of Exodus, which...
Lucius Apuleius is best known to us as the author of The Golden Ass, one of the most famous...
One of the witches’ most important basic beliefs, obviously, is the reality and possibility of magic. This involves...
This name was given to the statue of a mysterious deity alleged to be worshipped by the Knights...
A lot of traditional witches do not cast a circle at all as this is not traditional witchcraft but...
Traditional witchcraft is an umbrella term that includes many traditions. Essentially traditional witches are practitioners of forms of witchcraft...