While all Crafters, or Trad witches, use Going With techniques (meditation and visualization) and delve into Twilight, or trance, and may Hedge Ride, visit the Other World using shaman-like techniques, Hedge Witches are known for this activity. Some have used psycho-active herbs for this, but many do not. Many Hedge Witches are also knowledgeable of herbal medicinal use. In previous ages, the Hedge Witch was well known in their village as the local wizard, Cunning Man. or Wise Woman who would be called upon for advice, spells, herbal cures and for healing the local folk.

There are some Wiccans today that are strictly non-shamanic practitioners yet they call themselves Hedge Witches. Certain Wiccan authors have books with Hedge Witch in their titles. One such book states that the author has "redefined the term Hedge Witchery for the modern era." Well, this redefinition is total nonsense and books of this nature are nothing but ill-informed Wiccan twaddle.