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Look into Peter Paddon's podcasts - they're supposed to be excellent

Well, there's "Cunning Folk & Familiar Spirits" by Emma Wilby; author Gemma Gary writes about the Cornish Witch Tradition; Peter Paddon's "Grimoire For Modern Cunning Folk"; and "Walking the Tides - Seasonal Rhythms and Tradiional Lore in Natural Craft" by Nigel Pea...

Hello Aesiryth, Wicca is a religion begun by Gerald Gardner back in the 1950's. Witchcraft is not necessarily a religion - it is to some but not to others. Witches can cast spells just as Wiccans can. There are some Wiccans who actually don't cast spells these days. To help you learn what exactly yo...

Good thinking SpiritTalker, there are many people affected by electrical power lines.

I wonder why it's just in your local area that you're affected by this? Do you live in the country - could it be because of some geophysical earth energies? If you have someone working against you it would more than likely affect you wherever you are. Anyway, for protection you can use those same oi...

Calling the Quarters is about calling the elements and the elementals that reside in each of those quarters. They are called upon to lend us their power, witness our rites and to protect us. These quarters are also referred to as the Four Corners or the Watchtowers. Their are four quarters (obviousl...

Yes, that's a good post. Explains it all quite well

Cheers to you too and many blessings

Etbonusmalum and Theta Choir You are free to think what you will. I have not intended to shut anyone down. I said my assumption was just that - an assumption, I did not claim it was fact. In no way have I implied that anyone here is not educated enough to hold their own opinions, if it seemed that w...

I have much respect for those who come before me like yourself. BUT having 35 years experience doesn't qualify your way as the only way. Really, it's all on a grayscale! Telling me I have to have a ritual bath, say eight chants while burning sage & drawing a invisible circle with an athame, on ...

I'm curious; is casting a circle a modern invention that was created specifically for Wicca? Or is there evidence going back hundreds of years that witches have always cast circles in order to perform their spells? The Gardnerian way of casting a circle (Gardnerian Wicca, as you know, was started b...

You didn't hit a nerve... Trust me. It's the "lighting a couple candles around yourself isn't casting a circle" part I didn't like. That's your opinion and I practice the way I want. It's comments like that that keep people from actually sharing their experiences. Have a nice day... Sent ...

Obviously I hit a nerve. No-one asked for anyone's opinion, lol. I was just trying to explain that certain spirits, elements and elementals are usually called upon or invited into the practitioner's circle to protect, help, witness the rites and lend their power to any working. Understanding those t...

How you cast your circle all depends on "who" and "what" you wish to contact, invite into your circle and work with. If you do't understand that and why a circle is cast then that's probably why you believe "all that ritual is unnecessary". There are times when, if you'...

It doesn't matter, if ya know how to cast spells. You're a witch

Not true. Anybody can cast a spell - ya don't have to be a witch to cast a spell!