#while i wont be considering myself a witch i most likely won’t be dropping that word

[comfort-in-the-sound]

Update:

As I reactivated this blog and decided to get back in touch with my roots, I’ve found myself with the difficult job of trying to isolate and remove any renaissance influence (specifically garder, Crowley, golden dawn, appropriated Kabbalah, appropriated indigenous practices, appropriated houdoo practices and alexandrian) from genuine cultural folk magic. It’s been more difficult than I anticipated, occultists have been blurring the line of folk cultures fo almost 500 years. Even MORE difficult is the lack of written tradition in most cultures, but especially Scottish due to the result of the the British destruction of scot culture in the 18th century. Pagans have been happy to mix and whitewash traditions for centuries.

Because of this, through my research, I’ve had a growing worry that my hunt for a genuine ‘witchcraft’ was going to turn up nothing, that I would learn it doesn’t exist - turns out this is true for me! Neo-Paganism, witchcraft - for me, this is not my path at all, it seems almost all derived from Wicca, which in my personal opinion is a great stepping stone to get into occult, but falls apart quickly under a microscope into a grab bag of stolen and whitewashed mix of worldwide traditions - something I haven’t called myself since age 11 or so.

Instead, I will continue to research Scottish folklore and the affect war, famine and immigration to the new world had on folk remedies and superstition, as a scot from New England, this is the only appropriate path for me - my roots, and my home!