List & Links
for
Traditional Witchcraft
of The British Isles

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The Traditional Craft

The Traditional Craft of the British Isles, also called Trad Witchcraft or the Craft¹, is an umbrella term for those spiritual Old Craft traditions that have a Traditionalist perspective with Traditional Magic as its centre. Traditional Crafters, or Traditional Witches, have always been primarily solitaries, but groups certainly do exist. Some may refer to their group as a "coven" while others, including us, avoid that term because of its Christian etiology.

Some sites that we list may refer to Hedge Witchery. Hedge Witches often specialize in herbalism and in shamanistic journeying or Riding the Hedge. This involves entering a trance state in order to travel to the Other Side, or Spirit World to converse with the spirits. Most Crafters do this to one degree or another, while many are much more involved with this method of obtaining information, guidance, and even divination.²

• Canny Crafting Traditional Witchcraft - An attractive and interesting informational website.

• Meadows of Elfhame - Robin Artisson's "Journey into the Weald of Traditional Witchcraft". Robin's blog is at: Tracks In The Witchwood.

• Peter Paddon's Crooked Path Blog - Includes good audio Podcasts and Peter's Crooked Path videos.

• Traditional Witchcraft Forum - "...will embrace family traditions, reconstructionalists, and others who seek to follow the ways of the ancestors and honor the land in accordance with tradition."

• Wolver House - An interesting site.

• Ros An Bucca - Cornish Witchcraft.

• Stone Pages - Stonehenge, stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows, hillforts and archaeology of megalithic Europe.

• Mysterious Britain & Ireland - A resource and community website dedicated to mysterious places, legends, and folklore of the British Isles.

• Shee-Erie - An online guide to Ancient Ireland.

¹ The Craft refers to the Traditional Craft and does not include Wicca or Neo-Paganism.

² Hedge Witchery does not include the writings of Wiccan authors that claim to be Hedge Witches.