Loved this! I think the approach of ‘tracking’ how your path has shifted with each book is actually genius, I need to look back at my own now too, I certainly pick up new things that I incorporate into my path from each book or even just in person encounter! That’s why its always so difficult to give someone a single book as beginner advice, because really it will and should be a snowball of starting with one book and before you know it you’ve read 100

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! It is so hard to talk about what books are good for beginners because it just depends on what someone is most interested in at first. And like you said - from there it's a snowball effect!

Im so glad your channel exists, and is discussing your Folk Craft. As a Hoodoo Doctor, i am also soooo happy New World Witchery and his podcast are out there.

Ahhh....Scott Cunningham...the gateway author to wicca, withcraft, and paganism. I, too, was introduced to Scott Cunningham (Living Wicca) at a young age - early to mid 90's and followed the Wiccan way, mostly because we didn't know better. I was also introduced to Celtic Magic by DJ Conway and a few other of her books. Heavy into the rituals and Sabbats. While the authors and contents are dated and I personally no longer follow that original path that I started on; they opened the doors to pagan way for so many during that time. I can't believe how much as evolved in the 20 or so years since those authors first printed their books. I'm now a green witch and I did indeed read the book The Green Witch. I found that to be a good introductory book into the Green Path and into exploring herbalism. Blessed Be.

You and I have taken a very similar path in our development as witchcraft practitioners. I started in my adolescent life, with a strong call and yearning to be outdoors and to interact with the land; which led me to research everything I could about plants and cultures (of the Laurentians, in Quebec, Canada), where I'm from. I found a group of friends and we did minor spells and rituals to fill in our days and nights of senseless wanderings. Then my passion dwindled as I started pursuing other things. Then my attention turned to herbal medicines and horticulture as I started growing (and struggled with) my own plants. There I learned how to compost and naturally shift the acidity/alkalinity of my soil to get better results. Then a positive life-changing shift caused me to lose most of my progress as I had to move to start college and couldn't take my compost and truck loads of plants with me. In recent years, I started again! I have a miniature forest along my windowsills and began delving even deeper into the metaphysical and folk magic of the Americas and Great Britain (as have you). Budget constraints and a great dislike of reading in general kept me from purchasing many books, but one caught my eye, "the Poison Path: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens" by Coby Michael; it has histories, rituals, references to scientific facts and studies, as well as being divided into 3 planetary chapters (Saturn, Venus and Mercury). What I learned in that one book so greatly deepened my love and appreciation for the herbal histories of our shared folk pasts, as well as my desire to delve deeper still into the metaphysical, that I've made it my personal mission to learn everything I can (mostly from KZread creators like yourself, Hearth Witch, Ginny Metheral, Mickie Mueller etc.) and to pass on that information to anyone who wants to know. I too have also become increasingly interested in my ancestral past (wishing to communicate with the vestiges of my genealogical past) and went as far as I could with that Ancestry website: learning that my father's family is originally from a castle stronghold in the Pyrenees mountains, straddling France and Spain (~400 - 500 years ago), and then were among the first settlers to claim lands in Montreal; while my mother's side was Scots-Irish, and ran the horse-drawn carriage business in Montreal. Quite cool, if I do say so. As I'm between job at the moment, I took the time to learn wand crafting; magical herbs and their properties (again); the Elder Futhark and Runic Alphabet; the Wiccan Wheel of the Year (to better know the sabbaths and esbats related to the changing of the seasons, and how they correspond to our contemporary celebrations); and to start practicing my spells in a more complex and serious manner. So now I'm looking for books to read to better empower myself and my knowledge of the entirety of the magical world (a lifetime of research that I will happily and eagerly partake in). Thank you for this list, it will be revisited time and time again.

Love the video. Would you consider doing a full bookshelf tour? I would be ecstatic!

Great video! Seems we have ancestors from the same places....love it!

Oh! I'm from NC too!

Thank you new subscriber. Found you from ivy❤ Blessed Be

Thank you for walking us along your spiritual path via the books you've explored. Really enjoyable! Many of these same books are in my library. 🌟💛🌟 All best wishes!

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

I have much of the same ancestry as you. Also live in Washington, pierce county.

Gorgeous video thank you x

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I like this. Thank you.

Really fun way to look back at your path! You mentioned so many of my favorite books and ones I've read over the years.

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Aw, thank you so much! I love that we've read the same books!!

love all your videos

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! YES, that was the book I was trying to recall. So good and really helped me when it came to venerating my ancestors!

You should look into Wild Magic: Celtic Folk Traditions for the Solitary Practitioner if no one has suggested it yet.

Also, you should watch here on youtube a short film called "When the Song Dies" here on youtube. It's about traditions passed down in Scotland.

I am in the uk not usa and follow traditional witchcraft germanic viking and celtic practice. I am not religious quite the oposite , do it for the craft spell casting the odd hexing and making charms. The use of tarot or runes can be helpful. Wicca is a little different where you cast a circle , in traditional you hole a compass its a bit different. GerLd gardner started wicca in the 1950s with other from golden dawn in the modern age. Cecil williamson took a different route with traditional witchcraft and the museum of witchcraft and wizardry. Hope it helps One or two books traditional withcraft a cornish book of ways and silent of the trees by gemma gary. Trading the mill and walking the tides by nigel g pearson east aglian witchcraft. Discoverie of witchcraft by reginal scott circa 1600. Several versions of this one by forbidden press and another has the missing chapters that tells you how to do witchcraft. Its written in old english. Then there is dover press from 1930 over written by the monk montague summers, but does not have the missing chapters its still a good reat about the witch trails of elizabeth 1st etc.

Stahl’s Farm Market Tree Ripened Fruit

I grew up SBC as well! Eep. Do you remember the pledge of allegiance to THAT flag during VBS? WE MADE IT OUT. :D

@theredheadedwitch

2 жыл бұрын

How could I forget? I also attended a private school for most of my elementary years!

@EFergDindrane

2 жыл бұрын

@@theredheadedwitch OH NO! Bless your heart. I only had to go for 3rd grade. Thank the Morrigan it was too expensive. :p

I wouldn’t want to connect with my ancestors. They we’re hardcore religious on one side and atheist on the other side.

Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." Repent, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior today.This is God's invitation for redemption, Jesus loves you so much and he is the only WAY to eternity.God bless you