Are you a Traditional Witch? How do you know?
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- I call myself aTraditional fourth Generation Witch - but am I? Join me as I I take a look into how you might discover what your calling is, and as with all witchcraft there is something there for everyone that you will fit into.
Witchcraft is practiced by everyone, either consciously or unconsciously (fundamentalist christians might say NO! but ask yourself what is the ritual of the mass they celebrate? what is prayer? I say it is simply witchcraft)
Do you agree with me? Tell me what are your views - you can catch my details below and I love to hear from your all.
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We witch's need to unite to make this world a better place, i will never understand why people think witchcraft is evil when they know nothing about it and yes im a traditional witch 🧹🤍✳️🦋
I'm 100% with you. Let me know if you would like to cast a spell together ❤
Things are changing, my local vicar calls in for a cup of tea from time to time. He once wrote in the parish magazine about a person he knows who is a (wiccan his name not mine) being closer to the alter of god than some Christians he knows. I don't know that he was talking about me but I like to think that he was. He christained my children though with some useful additions and subtractions to the proceedings and after many cups of tea and cake 😄 xx
I adore you.
I don't have anyone in my life to learn witchcraft from. But I finally feel at home in my body and my connection and I'm so hungry for knowledge. 🙏 Thank you. ❤❤❤
My mom using 3 containers of salt to draw a line around our trailer "for protection"
9 year old me: okay!!
Hi Ginny:) another great video, and I accord with your view. My grandmother also taught me to throw salt over my left shoulder especially if I spilled it by accident. For luck, she would always put a penny in a new purse to draw in wealth, never 'cross' people on the stairs, put knives in the soil after eating fish (tho I'm not sure why haha), she would only hang a horse shoe for good luck upright (ie as a U shape), so that the luck would stay 'in' and not fall out. Spring cleaning was also taken very seriously! As was the proper time and place to remove the Christmas tree. We always had mistletoe, which was hung above the doorframe. If there was a chimney sweep around, she would run out and shake his hand and bring in a lump of coal. Additionally, I vaguely remember her reading tea leaves. We also had fairies living at the bottom of her garden! I grew up thinking this was all 'normal', and everyone's family did these things. Only now after watching your video, do I think that our family too had 'secrets' that were passed on 'matter of factly' to protect us females from harm. And wonder now if she too was a witch. I'm sure there are more examples that I could add, but as she passed away many years before I came to become a witch, I can't have this conversation with her:( Through your videos though, and with your help, I seem to be 'unlocking' my own past forgotten childhood memories. As such helping me to live more authentically. Thank you xx
You should try ancestor work to find her
Yes, we break up eggshells so that naughty spirits cannot use them to travel in...... ❤
I grew up with lots of things we should or shouldn't do and they were all passed down from my dad.
The strangest one was that we couldn't pick blackberries after our local fair (September 25th) as this was when they were pee'd on by the devil!!
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I have Native American, English, N. African, Scottish & Nordic witchcraft in my heritage! But, its not about the past, it's about me daily, using energy here & now. For blessings! Binding the negative! Using traditional rituals, writing/ using my own spells! Never taking over another person's will! Simply enhancing life!
Thanks for sharing!
Understand the calling/ speaking to your Mum. Bittersweet!
My ancestors mainly come from Scotland, Sweden, and the British Isles (even though I was born and raised in USA). I actually came across the interest by means of ancestry and spirit. Raised Catholic, and not really knowing my ethnic roots, I was began to question my upbringing in the 30's. I found myself drawn Britain, fairies, Arthurian legend, etc. I also had an interest in herbalism and the natural world. I had no idea why because it wasn't something that was taught to me. I am a Druid, which is also a practitioner of magic. I celebrate magic by using spell work, meditation, crystal magic, and more. It is energy. Everything is energy.
I'm a member of a Vietnamese Western Pure Land Buddhist temple, Vietnamese Buddhism is known to be a mixture of Buddhism and traditional Vietnamese folk Religion, (magic). learning about witchcraft through you and others I'm able to see it clearly. Hungry Ghost ceremony, invoking Medicine Buddha for healing. I always do a smoke cleanse with an incense stick at the front altar before entering the temple, and again when I invoke the memory of my mother with incense, flowers, and food offerings in the Ancestor room. I always do a smoke cleanse, bow to the Buddha, and at the altar for deceased master monks. I also invoke the Bodhisattva Quan Am for help with the chant ( namo Quan The Am Bo Tat ( The ancient Chinese Goddess Guanyin) or Namo a di da Phat (Hommage to Amitabha Buddha) 😊🙏❤
Another fabulous one, Ginny. My Aunt was very spiritual. Banging pots
when the New Year came in to keep out evil. Turning your money over
on the New Moon to attract more. Dad always had to plant a Hawthorne
tree in front of our house and said to take salt, flour and broom first into
a new home. Dad was also a 22nd degree Mason. So here I am, at 71,
always learning new things from you. Thank you heaps!!
A Hawthorne??? Because of the thorns?
Love a Hawthorne - the far love them too and often make their home in one
Also Chaco Canyon here in the USA is full of circles! I just wanted to comment that I would highly encourage you Ginny and fellow witches to look into Solar-punk and then immediately look into Wiccan Lunar-punk. IMO it is the vision of taking these tradition witch traditions into a Solar-punk sustainable future. Its pretty cool and inspiring. Blessings to you all!
I'm pretty sure my maternal grandmother was a witch. She had a lot of rituals and what-not. I've always had "witchy" sensibilities and have been drawn to the craft since I was very young. However, I was brought up in a very conservative Christian home where such things were labeled demonic and evil. I've since left that world and I find myself drawn back to my natural sensibilities. I know I have a lot to learn and I'm getting quite a late start, but I feel one is never too old to explore and learn. I'm looking forward to the journey!
I was told by a family member that if i dropped salt by accident I should throw some salt over my left shoulder to prevent bad luck coming to me.
When I am cooking and adding a pinch of salt to a pan of water, the last couple of grains always go over my left shoulder.
If I spill salt, I always throw salt over my left shoulder, as spilling salt was bad luck, throwing salt over the left shoulder broke the bad luck. And I never walk under a ladder. These were things I learned from my grandmother. She also made her own medisin when we had a could, from carrot and brown sugar, the rest of the ingredience I don't remember. I can still se her in my mind crushing the brown sugar with a hammer. There were also other things we was told not to; like making bubles with our own spit, then we washed the the bad mans(the devil) shirt.
I learned a lot from my Mom too. She is a bona-fide weather witch and master gardener. We have a firm grounding in Old World practices, like salt, but most days we are undoing bad farming practices. I love going on walks together and gathering seeds and cuttings from wild plants to cultivate for the benefit of the wild creatures in our community.
I am a 5th generation witch, and I will never forget how my great grandmother came shouting at me for leaving my handbag with a purse inside, on the floor 😬 😅 nice to hear that you have memories similar to my experience 🥰
To me, part of being a witch is the initiating of opposites: combining the wonder and sense of play and magic of a child with the life experience and discipline of an adult, for example, since we learned so much of the magic we know in childhood, before dismissing it as adults. After all, how many adults do you know who maintain the magical habits they had as children ?
When I was growing up, every time we accidentally spilled salt on the table we would toss some salt over our shoulder. My family is heavily Christian Baptist, so I'm not sure where it came from. I did a lot of stuff in my childhood that I now know was witchcraft, and didn't think twice about it because it was "forbidden", and I didn't know anyone who practiced.
I'm a descendant of British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Scandi people so look to how they practiced witchcraft, but I was born in and live in Australia so I'm adapting everything to being in alignment with this environment. Besides our seasons being flipped, the natural path of the sun is counter clockwise so that's the way I stir food or energy when directing it into something.
My grandmother would never have called herself a witch, but she had a lot of witchy ways about her. I see traditional being passing on or practicing traditions.
I have 3 daughters and a son.Allllll of my daughters are witchy but my 27 year old son recently called me in a tizzy......saying there was bad juju in his house and he wanted to know the witchcraft I use to get rid of it......I was soooooo excited that he asked, that he wanted to know how to do it AND he did a great job. So Im very happy ALLLLLL of my children are witchy.(Im now a Nanny and Im going to teach her too).....mwahahahahahaha(insert witch cackle here)
Thank you Ginny for another wonderful video. I find your take on witchcraft very in line with my own, so it's reassuring, if you know what I mean. Your comparison of learning art to learning the craft, each manifesting and practicing in their own way, following their own hearts - so true!! ❤❤❤
Another wonderful video. When I started actually practicing a few agos, I thought there was like a set of specific spells that have to be done a certain way in order to follow traditional witchcraft. Which kinda overwhelmed me in the fact of all the info out there got confusing. The more I've learned about myself and my craft, I've found its just a matter of my intentions and energy that is drawn from all around. I agree that the tradtions of salt over the shoulder, horseshoes and clovers for luck are all a form of the craft. When we acknowledge either consciously or unconsciously what our intentions are while throwing the salt or placing the horseshoe or clover somewhere that is witchcraft. Our intuition and energy go into it.
Hi Ginney! Just found your videos. Like you I have been practicing my witchcraft before I knew it was witchcraft. Now, it is done with intention and I simply follow my intuition…whatever feels right at that moment. Manifestation is my special ability which I am careful to use responsibly. I’ll be popping over to patreon to listen more to your stories. Many thanks and blessings!
I found witchcraft to have become part ot my life. And it was a huge change to cast a spell rather than to pray. But I am also deeply affected by Magick that has gone in my entire life. That was formed against me. So now the battle rages to defeat those that opposed me. My path was determined by others begore i was born. And i work to change it. Ive been guided after many errors along the way how to preform Magick. So it has become a new form of Faith. And it's a release of anxiety for me. Although sometimes Im rushed. And I find myself looking at nature in a new way, I feel part of it.
I do things that are just natural to me. I do the salt over the shoulder. I do simmer pots on the stove and scent my house naturally and it is also cheaper than store bought potori
My Mum is a Christian but is Greek and so very superstitious and the belief in the evil eye was a big part of my upbringing. Blessings from Wales
Hello my friend, I have no clue where the witchcraft came from since I don't know a whole lot about either side of my family history. I'm self-taught in the craft since I've been a little girl.
I loved this video. Seeing your family photos, knowing they are witches and wondering did any of their neighbours suspect 🕵🏻♀️☺️
You should write a book Ginny🧙🏼♀️🧹🪄💚
Im from Philippines, im amazed the craft there have similarities here 😁 My mom and youngest female sibling have healing energy, but for me its on darker side 🤧 im also energy vampire.
Good vid! My father was basically a witch and taught me all types of things. Yes it took me till I was in my 20s also to realize that all the kids did not grow up learning to do things I do. He hee. In my case my dad is the person that passed this down to me. So I do not think of the craft as purely a female thing, but that is simply me!
Thankyou Ginny for a very interesting video, your mother and grandmother were very beautiful. It my nan who taught me about the salt over the shoulder and got me interested in the craft, fairies, folklore etc . My Mum dosent believe any of it sadly.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Apparently my great grandmother could stop blood before she got to the house of the injured person. My grandmother went to nursing school in the 1930s and was taught 'proper' Western medicine as was my mother (in the 1980s). Scottish family in the USA and we were quite puritan. Which brings me to myself: I am a massage therapist and a sound healer and believe very strongly in our ability/birthright to manipulate energy. I meditate and other people are noticeably affected with my healing energy....BUT! I think because I wasn't encouraged or brought up with these ideas, I can't see a thing! I can sense energy, possibly my personality not because of any advanced capabilities in myself, I cast a circle seven years ago so my mother in law wouldn't come within 200 miles of our house and she hasn't (she's planned several times but just can't seem to get here!). I truly believe because I think witchcraft is in my ancestry....but I can't seem to connect with the very thing I do!
I loved this Ginny ❤ Thank you for sharing. I have a strong traditional pinch of the craft indeed. I've also made it my own . Cornish Irish Celtic Viking omg a lot came naturally. Sprinkle in some Seidr northern European background. That just about paints my picture. ❤❤❤
I also was taught witchcraft from my grandma and mother in my family I have a sister and brother nothing was practice to my brother just the girls. We also had other female relatives that lived in the blue mountains. They were called mountain people. We also taught Pow Wow from the Indian tribe in Pa. My families cultural tends to lean towards German Dutch folk lore my grandma and my grandpa from Ireland and was Celtic tradition he then passed to us children. Can I go back further in my tree ai only went with my immediate family members. I in-turn have 3 children myself and taught my children and raised them the way I was raise even my 2 sons. Which my family only did girls. So I carry on my witchy traditions and talk and teach my 4 grandchildren.
I have a book from my grandma and as a teenager I made and started my book of information of my hereditary beliefs to pass down to my daughter who is now 36. She will pass it down to her daughter Charlotte who is age 4 now. So I keep adding to it today for keep safe. I have shown my books to my children and grandchildren.
My granddaughter wanted her bedroom theme to be stars and moons so I add some touches passed down to her at her birthday. These items I had in my daughter bedroom at the age of 3. I was so blessed to do this for my granddaughter and my daughter was so emotional to see her childhood things get passed down. XO
My Granddaddy Mother was Welch and his Dad was Irish.
Absolutely love hearing about your magickal childhood. What a delight and a blessing...
...my mom used to keep potions, spell jars, etc on her dresser, but never shared any knowledge with me and I definitely wasn't allowed in her bedroom. My memories of her are pretty much like Gothel from Tangled. She only criticized me and reminded me that I should be grateful to have a beautiful mother unlike the rest of the children's eldelry hags. lol
Now I'm 46 and still so insecure, but learning to embrace witchcraft...it breathes life into my soul.
Thank you so much for sharing yourself. I hope one day I'll have the courage to join patreon...the thought of interacting with fellow witches is nice, but brings me alot of anxiety.
Blessed be to you and all!✨️
You have beautiful genes in the family! Inside and outside ❤
Domestic majic lady Ginny...i am of a line-of 700 years .. its all 8n house .. furniture in circles ...colour ology...herbs and spuces in the kitchen ..candle majic end insence and of course . The cooking pot cauldron and stove 🧙♂️ 🧙♀️ ❤
Thanks for sharing!!
Yes my grandmother taught ne about throwing salt over your shouler even when you accidentally spill it at the tabe !
Thank you! 😊
One of my Scottish ancestors was burned for "witchcraft" but actually was said to not be a witch. He owned tarot cards. 😑 Intuition is perhaps inherited?
I don't know what to think of my own intuition sometimes. It sounds strange to others but I'm stuck with it. I'm also a high functioning autistic, that makes things even stranger.
I had visions of Yosemite national forest. And I see a mountain that's all stone, and square looking sort of except the edge where it stops and it's naturally grey in color. And at the foot of the mountain there's daffodil a couple in same spot. And it seems prehistoric.
So I get to thinking and I had a bunch of daffodils so I planted them sparatickly in the grass. I think moles don't like them either so. It seemed like the thing to do. 😅
Most accused of witchcraft and burned or otherwise killed, were no witches. It was mostly about greed and acquiring property, as whoever accused you of witchcraft would get all your possessions if you confessed before being killed.
That makes alot of sense actually. More sense than being afraid of a Scotsman who had tarot cards. @@michelle.uncensored
My mother kept buckeyes I remember them when I was little because I thought they where pretty and cool and I loved the way they felt. But I was raised Christian and was she but very Irish and Dutch and Scottish Welch English heritage from her side of my family even though we are in the U.S.
A Evil witch is after you. She is here at my place on my command, Atte A Prince, Michael Archangel here..
Love your sense of humor 😁
I don't really think of myself as a witch to be honest, I'm more of a 58 year old child of nature😄 as for generational my great great grandfather was a seer his nickname was Jeremiah and my great great grandmother his wife was a medium of note she helped found one of the oldest spiritualist churches in the country. It probably runs in the family because we are all a sandwich more than a picnic. This isn't the reason I write though.
Its about casting a circle and how we live. You mention that originally we lived in round houses, I would like to suggest that we still do...... a challenge to all that reads this have a look at the square rooms you call your home I would be willing to bet that in the corners you have placed a piece of furniture that rounds off your room 😄 we never change witch be good x❤x
Thank you Ginny as always another good video. 🖤
Hello Ginny metheral, another video. I'm pretty you've probably seen my comments before. Greeting from a earth magick witch here in Staffordshire. Keep on the good work, your room gets more beautiful every time you post a vidro
Thank you for sharing ❤
Isn’t strange that spilling salt is bad luck yet we use the same salt as protection
One might interpret traditional as coming from a historical line of the craft. I was unaware of what was happening until my mother forbade me seeing my grandmother- "what she does is wrong and god doesn't approve of witches", well seeing the hypocrisy of Christians made my more intrigued. So not wanting to upset my mother I just didn't tell her Gran and I still met. Later I met people in the New Forest with whom I learnt more and followers of Gerald Gardner. As a male yes I may seem out of the normal but as there is female there is male required in particular paths. There are many mansions, mine is just one
There are a lot of men in the craft and most influential authors have been men. If you look to British traditions, especially around Cornwall and Devon, there were just as many men as women practicing, though they usually went by the moniker, cunning folk.
Because of the amount of concubines king Solomon had, I would say there are many traditional, which is out there that don’t even know why they keep saying, repeating numbers and wish for something which then occurs.
I love this video!!
Hi, hello your first generation whitch call to your fourd believing,
This is fascinating Ginny. Thanks for sharing this
Love it
Wonderful upload ❤
Lovely video!
I absolutely love your content! Thank you, Ginny!
You are so welcome!
Thank you🙏🔮🌳🦌🌳💚🌤🙋♀️
Hey Ginny! Lol salt. Yeah I had similar trouble with granny in the kitchen . Also got told about running through the front door and out the back. (Girl you go out the door you came in)(Here heave the salt over your left shoulder) it was constantly something of the sort. Like cussing over hot pepper in the garden while planting to make them hotter. I assumed that was normal lol. It was some kind of witchery and I wonder if she knew it or not? Have a wonderful day and hope to see you again soon.
You know any Oija or Charly Charly as well??
Dear Ginny, I have a question about spells in the circle. I heard two opinions - first that circles take personal energy from us and they were created to drain our energy. The second thing - the reason why in ancient times created circle was because they take energy from the earth and pass it on the witch. What do You think about it? I also learned from You that a magic circle is also created for protection.
In thinking about witchcraft being passed down through women, I think we should consider it from a social perspective as well. Historically, women faced much oppression politically, socially, financially, and even within the home. It only makes sense that women would maintain magic as a source of power, passing it on to their daughters to help future generations.
Teepees were temp housing (a tent) Native Americans didnt live in teepees
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Hello ginny I'm a male witch but I identify as female I know my mother practiced witchcraft and I have had visitation of my bruha ancestors so I consider myself a traditional witch unfortunately their traditions have been lost to time so I'm having to recreate new traditions for when I have children I love your channel keep posting videos you are helping me learn more about the craft every day
Hi! I’m curious to know if when you say “Devil” you are talking about the Christian devil?
No - the devil is much older than the Christian version - the Christians took over angels and the devil - they are old old spirits
@@GinnyMetheral Yes, I knew that. I feel like using the word devil just reminds me of the Christian Satan but I can see how you would need that for reference since many people have a Christian background. I watched your video “The devils birthday” and that confirmed for me what I thought you were talking about. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
It's unlucky to be superstitious 🙂 Well maybe...
Thank you for sharing ❤