#historic witchcraft

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[elminx]

Led by an Evil Spirit: Lesser-Known Witches of New England - Historic Deerfield

January 28, February 25, March 24 Outside of the well-known witchcraft outbreak at Salem and Essex County in 1692, there were other cases th

Not sure how many New England witches I have following me, but other history buffs may like this as well.

Historic Deerfield is doing a free Zoom lecture on the Lesser Known Witches of New England. Their lectures are always full of really good stuff.

(note, this is gonna be Puritan Satanic panic shit not *actual witchcraft*)

[year-of-the-rabid-dog]

|”Pendle, 1612″ Tape Cover|

Curator(s); Rob St. John and David Chatton Barker

[witchy-amethyst-alchemist]

DEAR BABY WITCHES

Modern/online witchcraft puts a lot of focus on specific tools and cool aesthetics, which may make you feel like you can’t can’t really do magic until you have a bunch of ‘the right’ stuff, but I guarantee that you already have everything you need in your home right now to practice. You don’t have to wait for anything to start learning and doing the craft. It’s extremely easy to get literally anything online now, but remember that for centuries the ‘common witch’ only had what was available in their immediate area to work with, and were not wealthy enough to buy extravagant/imported goods. (The exception being high class priests & nobility) Back in the day, the common witch used average household items, gathered local herbs, made their own staffs and yet their magic was just as powerful.Originaly magic was supposed to be EASILY used in everyday live, it wouldn’t be useful everyday if you had to spend all your time making sure you had all the ‘rarest’ herbs or whatever. (The same can be said about following certain demanding spells to the T, but that’s a completely different topic lol.) The simple things you use can be just as effective or even more effective than the fancier things, if you know how to use them. Now, I’m not saying ‘don’t buy tools’, if you want to do that, great!👍🏻 I’m just saying you don’t NEED it to be a witch.All witches are different and prefer different types of tools.If your a ‘baby witch’ and you don’t have a lot of money to spend or if you don’t want to buy something you’re unsure about working with, I personally suggest you get acquainted with the house-hold equivalent of whatever you’re curious about. Then practice,get used to working with it/them until you figure out your personal preferences, then you buy whatever you like to use the most. Hope this helps!!!🐍❤️❤️❤️

🌖ALL WITCHES ARE VALID🌔

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Here are a couple of photos from a website that details the historic practices of witches such as the witch bottle, dried animal remains, and many other traditional apotropaic charms. Apotropaios.co.uk

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A Witch and Her Poisons: A Look at the Toxic Herbs Used by Witches in Past Centuries

A witch's most used tool, second only to the broom, was her toxic herbs or poisons. What toxic herbs were used by witches in centuries past and how did she use them?

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Moll Dyer (died c. 1697?) is the name of a legendary 17th-century resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, who was said to have been accused of witchcraft and chased out of her home by the local townsfolk on a winter night. Her body was found a few days later, partially frozen to a large stone. Stories say her spirit haunts the land, looking for the men who forced her from her home. The land near her cabin is said to be cursed, never again growing good crops, and an unusual number of lightning strikes have been recorded there.

As with all folktales, the story has been passed down through the generations and changes with the telling. In 1994 Thomas Jarboe conducted a series of interviews with ten local residents, including a member of the Dyer family, a local historian, and several people from families that have lived in the county since the 1600s.[citation needed] According to these interviews, Moll Dyer is said to have come from Ireland, Virginia, Kentucky, New England, or Connecticut. She is said to have been a widow, a woman disappointed in love, or the mother of two sons. She may have born a Dyer or married a man named Dyer. Two people said they had heard her name as “Moldy Dyer” and that she was an Indian maid abandoned by her “paleface” lover after the birth of a child. The date of her death varied from the mid-1600s to the late 1700s. Several people said they thought Moll Dyer was Catholic or that she had come to Maryland because it was more religiously tolerant than other colonies. A white dog is mentioned as causing accidents on Moll Dyer road.

One interviewee reported that while hunting along Moll Dyer’s Run around 1970 he saw a “very dense fog patch, cylindrical in shape, with the light emanating about eight inches down from the top…. It crossed the stream and went east … moving across the wind instead of with the wind … then turned and went south…. But what made it really strange was that it did it twice! … I’m not saying that it was the spirit of Moll Dyer. I just don’t know what it was.”