Some Types of Contemporary Witchcraft

Published July 29, 2008 | By Juniper

Kitchenwitch

A witch who works her magick and rituals mostly in the kitchen, who studies food magick.

She studies how to make a magickal home, magickal meals and a sacred kitchen, a witch who practises domestic magick. A kitchenwitch studies herbs and plants that you can eat (culinary), and grows them as well if she can. She is often a source of hearth, food and cooking folklore, customs and traditions.

If she can she will likely have a veggie garden, some fruits trees, and a culinary herb garden.

Her tools are more likely to be kitchen utensils, wooden spoons rather than wands, cooking pots rather than a cauldron.

She will probably have a shrine or altar set up in the kitchen or dinning area.

Her patron deities (if any) will likely be Goddesses and Gods of the hearth, food, agriculture, home, and harvest.

Cottagewitch

A witch who practices her magick and rituals in the home, garden and yard.

She studies how to make a magickal home, kitchen and garden, a witch who practises domestic magick. She knows many spells for the home, such as protection or purification spells, and a bit of kitchen and garden magick as well.

She will probably have a well tended home, yard and garden, and may be the source of many tips on stain removal.

A cottagewitch will likely have a garden, with whatever strikes her fancy growing in it, as well as many houseplants. Her home will host various household guardians and spirits.

Her tools will often revolve around household chores as well as the kitchen and garden, such as besoms, a garden trowel, smudge sticks, a wooden spoon, a cleaning bucket.

She will have a shrine/altar set up in her home, probably the living room, but may also have one set up in the kitchen and/or garden.

Her patrons (if any) will be deities of the home, hearth, family, agriculture and harvest.

Hearthwitch

A witch who practices his magick and rituals in the home, with the household hearth as a focal point.
His home will host various household guardians and spirits. He is often a source of hearth, home and fireside folklore, customs and traditions. A hearthwitch is a domestic witch who works closely with the elements and various spirits and who may add some shamanic techniques to his practice.

He knows many spells for the home, such as protection or purification spells, and kitchen magick as well. He studies how to make a magickal home, kitchen and garden, a witch who practices domestic magick.

His tools will often revolve around household chores as well as the kitchen and garden, such as besoms, a garden trowel, smudge sticks, a wooden spoon, and fireplace tools.

He will have a shrine/altar set up in his home, probably on the fireplace mantle or by the stove, but may also have one set up in the kitchen and/or garden.

His patrons (if any) will be deities of the hearth, home, family, fire, agriculture and harvest.

Gardenwitch

This witch knows how to make things grow.

A Gardenwitch practices her magick and rituals mostly in a cultivated garden. She studies herbs, flowers, veggies and anything you would grow in a garden. As well she will study the cycle of the seasons, climate, weather, when to plant, when to harvest and such.

She will have a well-tended yard and garden, and love to spend her free time weeding, planting, pruning and tending her lawn and garden.

Her tools will mostly be garden tools and natural, practical tools she has crafted herself. Such as pruning shears, a shovel or digging stick, a garden trowel, a watering can, wooden wands and staffs, and besoms.

She will have a shrine and/or altar set up in her garden, and possibly in her home as well.

Her patron deities (if any) and Goddess will likely be deities of agriculture, the harvest, and nature.

Greenwitch

He studies trees, herbs, wildflowers, wildlife (animals), and the cycle of the seasons.

He will probably know what kinds of trees grow in the different parks in his area. He will study both magickal and medicinal herbalism. He may also study the care of, and working with animals as well.

A greenwitch practices most of his rituals and magick in natural settings, in the wild, in farmlands, in parks and his own yard. He will work with local (nature or otherwise) spirits.

A greenwitch will have a garden, if at all possible. He will also go in to the wild to gather plants and practice his ritual and magick.

The tools he uses are going to mostly be natural, practical tools he has crafted himself, such as wooden wands and staffs, besoms (brooms) made from local bushes, perhaps dishes made from clay. As well as the tools of herbalism, pruning shears, and maybe even a shovel or digging stick.

His shrine/altar may be in his home, yard or garden, as well as in a secluded area in a nearby forest or field.

His patrons (if any) will likely be deities of nature, the wild, animals, healing, agriculture, and the harvest.

Hedgewitch

A Witch who combines many elements of Traditional Witchcraft and Cunning lore, as well as Shamanism and healing, with a more rural tone to their practise.

A hedgewitch studies herbalism, nature, shamanism, healing lore, hearthcraft, nature oriented magick and anything else she may find useful. She will study both magickal and medicinal herbalism.

Hedgewitches study and practice their rituals and magick anywhere they may, but prefer to in rural or wild areas. They also tend to live in more rural places.

She will work with local (nature or otherwise) spirits and household spirits. Hedgewitches also honor their ancestors as well.

She will have a garden if she can, but prefers to gather plants and magickal materials from the wild. She may know a lot about what grows in the wild, as well as about wildlife and livestock. Her tools will be a mix of different useful items, as well as natural items and shamanic tools. Such as walking sticks and staffs, wands, rattles, a medicine bag, pruning shears, cooking pots, besoms, and the tools of herbalism, such as a mortar and pestle.

Her shrine/altar can be placed anywhere in her home, garden or yard, and she may have special places set up in her favorite wild places, or a corner of a farm field. Her patrons (if any) will be deities of nature, the wild, and agriculture, healing, the harvest and the Underworld.