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Traditional Witchcraft
Every place has its own character, energies, and hidden spirits. For the Witch, learning to recognize and work with these forces can open an entirely different dimension of magical practice. Explore traditional methods for connecting with local spirits, reading omens, gathering the energy of a place, and bringing the power of the land into objects, potions, and spell work.
For Calling The Dead
Samhain, the ancient festival associated with the spirits of the dead, has a rich history of ritual, folklore, and magical practice. Author Kerry Wisner explores its origins and evolution, along with traditional customs and spells for communicating with the dead. The class concludes with a detailed look at a Traditional Witchcraft Samhain ritual, including incense recipes, ritual instructions, and what you may experience during the working.
Learn traditional approaches to psychic self-defense, magical protection, and counter-magic. Kerry Wisner explores how to recognize different forms of psychic interference and offers techniques for protecting the home, creating protective talismans, reversing curses, and defending against unwanted spiritual influences.
Spells of Traditional Witchcraft
What did Witches actually do when they cast a spell? This workshop draws back the curtain on practical spells preserved in folklore, grimoires, and rare handwritten manuscripts. Author Kerry Wisner explores historical workings in detail and shows how these traditional techniques can be understood and incorporated into practical magic today.
Discover the fascinating world of magical symbols created to protect people, families, and homes. This follow-up to Setting the Wards explores protective amulets, sigils, pentacles, Witch Marks, and arcane seals used to repel negative forces, reverse curses, and work with spirits. Drawing on sources ranging from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe, England, and Colonial America, Kerry Wisner reveals the history and practical use of these powerful symbols.
For centuries, mirrors and other reflective surfaces have been used for far more than seeing one's reflection. Explore their traditional roles in scrying, divination, spirit work, and the gathering of magical power. Kerry Wisner examines black and silvered mirrors, pools of water, crystal balls, Witch Balls, the Mirror Box, and copper and silver bowls, revealing the many ways reflective objects have been incorporated into magical practice.
From Ancient Egypt to Traditional Witchcraft, magical figures have been used to embody, attract, protect, and influence. Explore the history and practical techniques surrounding statues, dolls, poppets, fetishes, and traditional "house dolls." Kerry Wisner examines how these figures have been empowered and used in magical workings, including traditional methods for breaking spells associated with dolls.
Magic doesn't always require rare or exotic ingredients. Traditional Witchcraft often finds power in the ordinary materials of the natural world. Explore the magical uses of herbs, bark, stones, bones, wax, soot, smoke, minerals, metals, feathers, fur, hair, and more—and discover how these readily available materials can become ingredients in charms, spells, and other magical workings.
The hands can be powerful instruments of magic. Explore traditional methods of casting and directing spells through gestures, finger positions, and movements of the body. Kerry Wisner examines how different gestures have been used to gather energy, invoke forces, and project magical power, including fascinating examples reaching back to Ancient Egyptian practices.
Jewelry and clothing have long carried magical meaning, transforming ordinary objects into tools of power. Explore rings, bone necklaces, stones, gems, wood, cords, wraps, cloaks, and the traditional silver bracelet associated with the Witch Queen. Kerry Wisner reveals how these everyday items have been used to gather, focus, and enhance magical energy.
Spell casting lies at the heart of Traditional Witchcraft, with workings for healing, protection, prosperity, love, and much more. Join Kerry Wisner as he explores the often-overlooked elements that can make a spell more effective, along with traditional spells and techniques for strengthening and directing magical intent.
The Witch's voice can be one of her most powerful magical tools. Discover the traditional use of incantations, chants, tone, rhythm, and "charged breath" in spell work. Kerry Wisner explores how the voice has been used to raise power, induce trance, call upon otherworld beings, and connect musical tones with the planets and occult realms.
The desire for prosperity is hardly new—and neither are the magical traditions surrounding it. Explore practical spells and enchantments drawn from folklore and Traditional Witchcraft, including charms, powders, oils, incenses, and talismans associated with money, success, and good fortune. Kerry Wisner presents these techniques in an accessible, practical format.
Words have always held a special place in magic. This unique workshop explores the history and practical use of "Words of Power," from Ancient Egyptian formulas and medieval magical texts to Gaelic chants and other traditional sources. Discover how sacred words, names, and chants can be incorporated into spell casting and practical magical work.
Step into the world of Traditional Witchcraft and discover a magical practice shaped by centuries of oral tradition, historical texts, folklore, and practical experience. Kerry Wisner introduces the origins and history of the tradition, its traditional roles and titles, its rituals and spells, and the lore surrounding the Hidden Art. This class provides an introduction to Kerry's broader series of Traditional Witchcraft teachings offered through Open Doors.
The spoken charm is one of the oldest and most enduring elements of magical practice. Explore actual historical charms and spirit invocations preserved in folklore, cunning books, and other sources dating back hundreds of years. Kerry Wisner explains their traditional meanings and demonstrates how these fascinating pieces of magical history can be approached in practical Witchcraft today.
Entering altered states of awareness has long been an important part of magical practice. Explore traditional approaches involving ritual, spells, hypnosis, astral techniques, and other methods of shifting consciousness. Kerry Wisner examines the many purposes associated with these states—from spirit awareness and past-life recall to spirit travel, the "second skin," and influencing others from afar.
Take the next step into the world of astral travel. In this second workshop in the series, Kerry Wisner explores traditional methods for projecting awareness and forming a separate spiritual "body" for travel. Learn how to prepare yourself and your surroundings, navigate the experience, protect yourself during spirit flight, and return safely to the physical body.
Take astral travel further with advanced techniques drawn from Traditional Witchcraft and historical magical practices. Building on the earlier workshops, Kerry Wisner explores the use of mirrors, the Besom & Stang, the hearth, sigils, symbols, incenses, oils, and ointments. Discover how magical objects, people, places, and settings have traditionally been used to enhance astral work.
Journey beyond the familiar world and explore traditional magical concepts of other realms. In this third workshop on Astral Projection, Kerry Wisner examines techniques used as doorways into different realities, including the Annwn, Abred, and Gwynfyd. Learn traditional approaches to navigating these realms, encountering their beings, and dealing with entities that may prove challenging.
The wand and staff are among the most enduring tools of magical practice. Kerry Wisner explores their history across Ancient Egyptian magic, Solomonic and Hermetic traditions, and Traditional Witchcraft. Discover the preparation, enchantment, and use of different magical implements, from the Witch's Stang and forked staff to Heka wands, summoning wands, and smaller wands designed for discreet use.
Traditional Witchcraft includes practices for cultivating, moving, and directing personal power. Explore the traditional concept of the thirteen points of power within the body, along with techniques involving breath, visualization, oils, touch, and energy projection. This workshop offers a fascinating look at the ways the body itself can become an instrument of magical practice.
Knives, sickles, and swords have played important roles in magical traditions for centuries. Explore their history, symbolism, and practical applications—from the black-hilt Witch's knife and the working knives of cunning folk to sickles and ceremonial swords. Kerry Wisner examines their traditional use in protection, spirit warding, directing magical power, and Traditional Witchcraft ceremonies.
The Moon has long been one of the most powerful influences in Witchcraft and magic. Explore the magical significance of the Moon's phases, the Full Moons throughout the year, and the twenty-eight "Ladies of the Moon." Kerry Wisner also examines lunar scrying, traditional tools for gathering Moon energy, and the elements of a Traditional Witchcraft Full Moon ritual.
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