Walking the Hedge

The Hedge: A very English and Anglo-Saxon term for the Veil between Worlds. To “thin”, “prune” or “create a gap” in the Hedge is akin to opening a gateway to the otherworld.

Hedge Riding: Also known as Walking the Hedge or Crossing the Hedge, soul flight or shamanic journey.

Laying, or Raising, the Hedge: Somewhat similar to Circle casting, or creating a Grove in Druid ritual, the witch visualizes a hedgerow growing up about the ritual space, acting as a filter to keep certain spirits and entities out, while keeping others in.
Also used as a method to create or mark out a gap in the Hedge (or Veil between worlds) so that witches can interact with, or enter into, the otherworlds.
Laying the Hedge may also be used to “dam in” the Bloody Acre. There are many different interpretations and methods.

Walking the Hedge: 1) The state of being where a witch stands “with one foot in this world and one foot in the otherworld”; a kind of ritual or altered state of consciousness.
2) Also refers to soul flight and journey into the other world.