Besom, Stang & Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape

Christopher Orapello · Tara-Love Maguire

Dec 2018 · Weiser Books

About this ebook

"The book returns the Craft to its primordial forces—animism, baneful plants, folk magic, ecstasy, and hedge-witchery—without gatekeeping, armchair pseudo-academia, or pretension.”—Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch

Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft.

Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their own backyards, in the uncultivated land or urban cityscape alike, and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or in a neopagan-styled religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are.

The material in this book is adaptable to any region in which the practitioner lives. Although the lack of deity worship and holy days is a significant part of the authors' nonreligious approach, this book presents a complete system of practice utilizing ritual, chant, trance, the six paths of witchcraft as defined and explained by the text, and the practices associated with traditional witchcraft.

Ratings and reviews

For those interested in Traditional Witchcraft and the Crooked Path and want an all in one system that works well and truly promotes a freedom of individual practice? This is the book for you. Felt like coming home again. There is alot in there but it's a fantastic launching point into deepening your personal witchcraft practice. Absolutely loved it.

A great resorce for anyone who would like to learn about traditional witchcraft. It is extreamly helpful.

It's Wicca. Just don't the authors that.

About the author

Christopher Orapello is an artist, witch, and animist with a background in Western occultism, ceremonial magick, and Freemasonry and has been on his journey for 30 years. He co-hosts the podcast Down at the Crossroads with his partner, Tara-Love Maguire, a signature artist with Sacred Source (a leading producer and distributor of ancient deity images in North America), and is the Magister of The Blacktree Tradition of Witchcraft. You can find out more about Christopher and Tara-Love at www.infinite-beyond.com.