Beyond the Craft

Why the Witch Trials Never Ended

Why the Witch Trials Never Ended

When people think of witch trials, they imagine superstition, spells, and cauldrons. But history tells a far darker truth: the witch hunts of Europe were not about magic. They were...

Why the Witch Trials Never Ended

When people think of witch trials, they imagine superstition, spells, and cauldrons. But history tells a far darker truth: the witch hunts of Europe were not about magic. They were...

Bread and Burial

Bread and Burial

The fields are full and breathing. The air smells of warm grain, distant storms, and the tang of blackberries not quite ripe. Somewhere in the haze of late summer, a...

Bread and Burial

The fields are full and breathing. The air smells of warm grain, distant storms, and the tang of blackberries not quite ripe. Somewhere in the haze of late summer, a...

Between Flame and Flower: The Living Traditions of Midsummer

Between Flame and Flower: The Living Traditions...

The sun is high. The days stretch long and golden, as if the year itself were basking in its own brilliance. But beneath this fullness, something ancient stirs. As the...

Between Flame and Flower: The Living Traditions...

The sun is high. The days stretch long and golden, as if the year itself were basking in its own brilliance. But beneath this fullness, something ancient stirs. As the...

The Folklore of Everyday Objects

The Folklore of Everyday Objects

The first fires of Beltane have subdued into glowing embers — no longer setting the world ablaze, but still warm, still alive, and now carried with us. As May unfolds,...

The Folklore of Everyday Objects

The first fires of Beltane have subdued into glowing embers — no longer setting the world ablaze, but still warm, still alive, and now carried with us. As May unfolds,...

Beltane: Fire, Fertility, and Wild Magic

Beltane: Fire, Fertility, and Wild Magic

There’s a certain heat to late April. Not the scorched blaze of midsummer, but a gentler, greener kind of fever, rising from the restless earth. It stirs beneath the skin,...

Beltane: Fire, Fertility, and Wild Magic

There’s a certain heat to late April. Not the scorched blaze of midsummer, but a gentler, greener kind of fever, rising from the restless earth. It stirs beneath the skin,...

Adornment as Protection, Identity, and Love

Adornment as Protection, Identity, and Love

Jewellery is never just decoration. We might think of it today as something ornamental — a finishing touch, a flash of sparkle, a way to elevate an outfit. But for...

Adornment as Protection, Identity, and Love

Jewellery is never just decoration. We might think of it today as something ornamental — a finishing touch, a flash of sparkle, a way to elevate an outfit. But for...