Tags: Witches Familiars

  • Witches Familiars: The Witchery of Birds

    Flight has always belonged to Witches, therefore we share a kinship with the birds.
    There are as many different types of Witches and there are of birds as well. Each have their own qualities, abilities and traditions.
    Here I will list a three birds that have been special to me: the Swan, the Crow, and the Owl.
    I [...]

  • Witches Familiars: Magic of the Horse

    The White Mare of Britain

    In April of 1996, I spent a full month traveling around the British Isles on what I called my “King Arthur Tour”, or my “Holy Grail Tour”.
    The previous November, the visitations from the Tuatha de Danaan, or the Faery Court of Ireland,  had begun, plunging me into a life of altered [...]

  • Witchery of the Hare

    Witchery of the Hare

    Listening to the Moon, by Jackie Morris

    I shall go into a hare,
    With sorrow and sych and meickle care;
    And I shall go in the Devil’s name,
    Ay while I come home again.
    So sang the young witch, Isobel Gowdie, when, under the light of the full moon, she transformed herself into a hare. In this [...]