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Kitchen Witch Tip 8/?
Talk to your granny - or your friends’ grannies - about their favorite recipes. Watch as their eyes light with memories and smiles, as their hands move to demonstrate a pinch here and a dash there.
Some magic lingers in the heart and the soul for generations
Whoa.
So…
Could making cut cookies, or a pie , and putting a sigil in the dough/crust work?
Would baking charge the sigils- or would it be too much?
Yep, it works beautifully actually.
You can use it for all types of things like protection, togetherness, comfort but also keeping neighbors respectful towards you and yours (if you give them baked goods) or making unwanted guests leave (or at least stop being a nuisance).
Baking the cookies/pie does charge the sigils (through fire/heat).
Localizing Your Practice
So much witchcraft emphasizes how important it is to honor and work with the Earth, but then teaches us spells with ingredients we basically have to import using locations we don’t have access to. It’s rare to find an existing grimoire or guide book that actually works with where we live. We can still use them, but it doesn’t enhance our connection to our local land, which to many can feel important. Here are some tips for localizing your practice and working with the land you actually live on.
See what nature exists around you. Explore your own backyard with a critical eye. What plants can you actually go and pick yourself? What are those plants associated with? Do you have access to a creek or river? What does your local land actually have on it? If magic correspondences for your local plants haven’t been written about, you may have to do your own research.
Example: I grow several plants on my back porch which I can potentially use for magic.There are magnolia trees and rhodedendrons on the grounds of my apartment complex. My parent’s neighbors have chickens in the backyard, so I have access to some feathers when they shed.
Check out local folklore, legends, etc. This is one of my favorite parts, but can also be the hardest. What are the stories of your area, both on a local and cultural scale.
Example: A West Virginian may incorporate legends of the Mothman. Everyone says that one building on my old college campus is haunted (and they’re right.) People talk about that liminal-space feeling when you drive down that one road at night.
Find the magic spots. Sometimes the urban legends will tip you off to these (usually in a bad way) but other times you can find them on your own. A place where the energy is just right for some reason. A place you can go to be closer to nature, or a place you could host a ritual if needed. Sometimes it’s just a place where you can feel your mind open a little bit.
Example: The shady corner of a public park. The tunnel downtown. That weirdly-perfect circle of trees in the woods behind Wal-Mart.
Meet your land wights. Spirits of the local land. This could be the fair folk, but also house spirits, the spirits of the trees near you, the nature spirits of wherever you are. They’re there. Be good to them and they’ll be good to you!
Note: Some spirits and wights will not be interested in working with you, and that’s okay. I generally think it’s good to at least leave a polite offering to just be on general decent terms even if you never work with them more directly beyond that.
Check in with your Seasons. Harvest holidays generally don’t have actual lifestyle importance to most people reading this. The seasonal shifts other people write about may be from a very different climate than yours! Figure out a calendar that works for you. It doesn’t have to be detailed, but something that ties you to the seasons as you actually experience them. I also love working in any fun annual festivals nearby, if any.
artist I like 123/???
Cicely Mary Barker 1895-1973 an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers.
Isabelle de Borchgrave paper recreation of Flora’s dress, from “Primavera” by Botticcelli, painted around 1477-82
Sun and Moon
Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463
BnF, Français 50, fol. 19r
Flower meadow