What is tradition witchcraft? 

It is a none religious based practice. Please take note: IT IS NOT A WICCAN PRACTICE. 

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For myself, traditional witchcraft is the only real and true form of witchcraft but even my form of traditional witchcraft is different to what you may read about or practice as in my opinion all witches are eclectic and this is why do not do well being placed in a one size fits all style or tradition, religion etc. What I practice feels real to me, it feels right inside of me and I see results physically though its use and mentally in my mind and I feel like I have a deeper connection with the land, ancestors and spirits through the practice and any form of witchcraft that does that is right for you no matter what you call it.

 

Some of the forms of witchcraft  that is touted about today is utter junk. I have studied and I read hundreds of books on the subject and may have an unbalanced approach to the craft with the over sold love and light style of the craft, it tends to be sexist and female only as if males were never witches. You will have seen the kinds of books, 1 Million Love Spells, a pink and black book, the kind found in the book bins in fuel stations next to the last fad diet cook books! 

 

I find for me a more fluffy gift shop love and light spell craft lacks real world balance. I studied so many books and texts, searching left hand and right hand paths but I was feeling empty, like my soul was saying “hey there is more to witchcraft than what your reading”. It's hard to say which kind of witchcraft is correct, each of us witches have our own path and many of us are so eclectic. It's hard to say what traditional witchcraft is as it's different to each witch but if I had to simplify what traditional witchcraft is. I would say it's a form of witchcraft which is the most inline with medieval historic witchcraft up to the early 1900’s. The kind of witchcraft we have read about our whole lives with regards to an evil witch living in the woods making potions, grave robbing coffin nails, casting bones to divine the future and flying to the witches sabbath on a broomstick while making a pact with the devil, the witch curses and hexes and walks between all religions.

 

The traditional witch fears no spirit or entity and works not within a circle nor does the witch have salt upon the altar, the stang is a key tool within this craft along with working with bodily fluids and using a blackthorn walking stick for banishing, hexing and cursing, we may find ourselves alone in graveyards naked below a robe under the guise of a dark moon or wandering the land and finding the sprawl of energy from deep within the earth. We are not all left or right hand path, we just are. We have no rules apart from respect and understand the consequences of our actions. We tend to move away from the belief in a summerland but believe in reincarnation and an underworld, our world and a higher realm, worlds within worlds that spirit can travel. We offer our alliance to a Cornish witch would call the Bucca, a devil of sorts, a Lucifer and ancient spirit of animalistic nature and in return we are granted gifts, a dark spirit guide that aids us in darker work. We call this our witches familiar, something that seems to be lost in wicca but is very much part of witchcraft history.

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The path I follow is Traditional Witchcraft that is rooted in British folklore and history. Based on real historical items collected by Cecil Williamson the true farther of modern witchcraft and the founder of the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum in Cornwall.