Here comes your fair warning…it’s about to get political here. To be honest I am not even sure why I should warn you. We are living in times where being political should be on everyone’s agenda, not just for witches, but maybe especially for them. Yet here we are, in the year 2026, and not for the first time I am asking myself why so many people stick their head in the sand when it comes to politics. Why do so many witches, pagans, spiritual people, try to “stay away from all

What do you need to practice witchcraft? There is a huge industry out there catering to every occult, spiritual and pagan flavour. From the pink and fluffy to the dark and spooky you can absolutely find everything you can imagine. But which one of all those things do you absolutely need to practice your craft or path?

While researching my last blog post about Krampus, I realised that I have taken a lot of the traditions I grew up with for granted and never researched where they actually come from or what they mean.One of those is a phrase we use all the time in Germany, so I decided to find out

Another re-published blog post, but it is timely. As you know, if you read my 'About me', I was born and grew up in Germany, so you should think that the inherent German figure of Krampus is something I am very familiar with.Well, I am and I am not. When I was a child St Nikolaus, the patron saint of children, would come

Every year around this time I see an increase of claims about the pagan origins of Christmas. How the Christians stole it all from the Pagans and all the way to the claim that Santa Claus is actually the Norse God Odin. So I thought let’s have a look at how much of that could be true.

What is it about the Ouija board that makes a lot of people recoil as soon as you mention it? I find it incredibly fascinating, but also pretty weird, that I have met so, so many people who are disproportionately scared of the Ouija board

That sounds terribly ominous and a bit dramatic, doesn’t it. But as we, in the northern Hemisphere, are hurtling towards Halloween or...

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard that line over the years when people come to know that I am a witch.Sure there are also those who just think I’m nuts and those who are fascinated, but by far the most common reaction is the one above. ‘But you ARE a white witch, right?'

For my very first post I wanted to write a bit of an extended "About me" thing, so here it goes: What does it mean when somebody or rather when I say "I am a witch"?