Witchy Herbs To Stimulate Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming is a shamanistic practise that consist of increasing our conscious will while asleep, as well as communicating with spirits, animal totems and any kind of spiritual entities, either to find a way to solve a problem or to receive knowledge from our spiritual masters. It is a very safe technique that Witches at [...]

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Recycling Tips For Greener Witchery

Being a Green Witch is not only brewing nice oils or creating incenses; much more important than those things is the belief that Nature is our true and only source, and that it must be respected and cared for as much as possible. Both for rural or urban witches, reducing our waste and recycling are [...]

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Herbal Cookies Recipe

Ingredients For Around 35-40 Cookies:
- 150 grams (1/3 pound) of butter, at room temperature;
- 1 egg, at room temperature;
- 150 grams (1/3 pound) of sugar, white or brown;
- Baking soda, two teaspoons;
- 250 grams (a bit more than 1/2 pound) of flour of your choice;
- the rind of half an orange, grated or cut in [...]

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The Sunday Of A Green Witch

After four days of dollmaking, I was seriously missing my herb witching! Since the day was sunny and without a cloud, we got up early and worked on transplanting, cutting, cleaning and generally spoiling our beloved green babies.

A disoriented geranium that is not aware that we’re almost in winter bloomed last night.

Pomba Gira, in her [...]

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New Product At The Hoodoo Shop: Smoke Herbal Blends

Gorgeous photo by Maria Lau

It is believed that smoke is the vehicle of communication with the Divine – the cigars in Santeria and Voodoo, the pipes of the American Natives, the Ganja of rastafaris, Opium and hashish in India, are just a few examples known by all. But, there are many other herbs that are [...]

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This And That

We spent the morning giving a good clean to our roof garden – Fernando had just finished this new table made with salvaged paillet wood, to be placed on the west wall where the sun hits for more hours now. For us, this is like the beginning of Spring. Plants are growing like crazy and [...]

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Kitchen Witching On Fet Gede

The fact that a day is considered sacred, like Fet Gedé, does not mean that we dress up in velvet purple robes and summon the Dead among incense smokes – that’s really not our style. Our Sacred days try always to honour the everyday activities, as this is what I think makes a Witch really [...]

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First Container (Mini)Harvest – And Lots Of Garden Pics :)

Peppers (delicious!), super-hot jalapeños, and a lovely triple onion that I will add to the Goddess altar on Samhain. All of this was grown in regular plant pots, from heirloom organic seeds from our in-laws own crops, on a roof garden where there is no planting soil at all – a proof of urban gardening [...]

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Images From The Change Of Seasons

Living only a few miles away from the Saharian desert, our planting and harvesting seasons are quite different from the usual Pagan schedule. For us, summer is the time when nothing grows, because it’s too hot for most plants to survive – and autumn is the beginning of our gardening year as temperatures get soft [...]

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The Witching Season Begins At The Hoodoo Shop

The Witching Season starts at The Hoodoo Shop!
Until Samhain, the shop will be focused on offering new autumnal, primitive and witchy items to help you Witches celebrate the end of the Magickal Year. Get ready for Herbal Harvest themes, grungy herb candles, everything tattered to perfection and with that old’n’worn look that we Witches love [...]

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