05/25/2025
Witchcraft has changed so much since my early teens in the late 80s / early 90s. I think the saturation of non-specific practice witchcraft online and probably the world at large has been leading many of you to sink your roots deeper in order to draw up those old practices in your DNA and familial lines. For some of you, that might not be blood lines, and it’s important that you still recognize how valid that is in terms of your practice. Not all family is blood; not all blood is family.
I grew up in a folk magic family in the hills of Kentucky. My kids have also been raised with these superstitions and remedies and receipts. From gathering dirts to divining with sunflower or apple seeds to hiding charms, it was our way of practicing a type of belief in a power that we could manipulate and use for our own. Sometimes that meant pinning someone and other times that meant healing.
I was scrolling through videos yesterday and there were so many videos about cleansing. Cleanse this or that by the moon, put salt in every spell jar, don’t use this unless you’ve cleansed it first.
In folk magic, we don’t cleanse our tools very often, mostly just before we use them the first time. In fact, the more you use them, the more powerful that magic becomes. So you want to use those same tools again and again. If you are absorbing something negative from someone, you use something that can be buried or tossed, not reused – eggs, roots, seeds, bound sticks, an old washrag. Part of the magic is IN the disposal.
Your tools hold the energy you create, storing that magic every time. Every time you light that lamp, or wring that rag, or use that hammer to fix something to a stump, you are charging it with your power and magic.
Magic, like people, isn’t meant to be sterile. It’s dirty, messy work when done right.
~Crystal
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