BESOM, STANG & SWORD | A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft
BESOM, STANG & SWORD | A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft
Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft. Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their back gardens, in the uncultivated land, the wild unknown and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or a neopagan-styled religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are.
The material is adaptable to any region in which the practitioner lives. Although the lack of deity worship and holidays is a significant part of the authors' nonreligious approach, this book presents a complete system of practice utilising ritual, chant, trance, the six paths of witchcraft as defined and explained by the text and the practices associated with traditional witchcraft.