#peter paddon

im british and ethnically scottish and i would definitely be interested in at least learning about traditional british witchcraft so yes please recommend me some books!

It is a bit like riding a unicycle. As long as there is balance, you will find that gentler controlled movement is easy and flows well, and the whole thing feels like an extension of yourself - but lose that point of balance and it will quickly get away from you, and suddenly you are being forced to move, dragged in the direction it wants to go, because you have lost control. I won't beat about the bush - this is a dangerous exercise, and should be practiced at first only for a short time, five or ten minutes, preferably with someone to keep an eye on you. Because the ramifications of letting your Drake get control of you, instead of vice-versa, is that it won't just take you for a ride (and a tempting, rollercoaster ride it will be), but it will take control of your thought, emotions and every aspect of your life too, and this is not a good place to be. You won't even notice it yourself, but you would become a predator, drawing on the life-force of those around you, like a psychic vampire, taking risks both physical and spiritual, and eventually the unbalanced energy would consume you, but not before it wreaked havoc on the lives of those you care about.

It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the Crooked Path is a path that requires the practitioner to be ethical rather than moral. Morals are rules laid out by a person or organization. The Christian Ten Commandments are a moral code, to be followed without exception. And that is a good thing, because they provide a framework of ethical behaviour that can be followed without too much thought. But a Witch or Cunning Man needs to take responsibility for their own actions. Blindly following a moral code is fine for a beginner, but is presupposed a universe of stark black and white, and the universe we live in is made of endless shades of grey. So instead of the moral code of "do not steal", the Witch follows the ethical route, where the theft is weighed for its position on a sliding scale. Theft is wrong, but allowing a child to starve is more wrong, so if your child is starving and there is no better way, stealing that loaf of bread becomes a lesser wrong. You might be arrested and placed in a cell for the theft, but that is a small price to pay for the continued life of your child. The phrase, the "price to pay" is the key here. For Cunningfolk, the real question becomes, "am I willing to pay the price for what I do?" This is why the Crooked Path is unlike Wicca with its "harm none" moral code.

About the only thing I truly remember is the symbolic castration, performed by lopping mistletoe hanging between my thighs with a sharp sickle. I'm told that the priestess carrying the Mother came close to making it non-symbolic, but either way, I think I would have been okay with either outcome, because I was so in the moment.

Hello, I wanted to ask you can you give me some advice on trad witchcraft literature, or can you give me some good sites about traditional witchcraft. I know that the books of Troy Books publishing are good but I really can never ever ever buy them. I come from a really poor country, so one book and the shipping are actually a half of my mother's monthly salary. I've been trying to find good sites with information about trad witchcraft for quite some time, but it seems I miss them somehow..

For a lot of people who say, ‘Oh yes, I’m a sex magician!’ what they mean is ‘I dress up in robes and have sex, and it’s pretty magical.’