The desk where this is written
Wicked Route is a research-led reference for working witches. It exists because most witchcraft writing online is locked to a single lineage, uncited, or both — and serious practitioners deserve better material to work from.
The site synthesizes folklore, social history, and contemporary practice across traditions: Anglo-Saxon folk magic, Continental ceremonial currents, Hoodoo, Italian folk Catholicism, modern Wicca, and the long European herbal canon, among others. Posts cite their sources. Where a claim cannot be traced to a named author or a primary text, the claim is cut.
The voice is that of an editor, not an initiate. Personal experience and lineage are never invented to lend authority to a piece. When you read a description of what practitioners do, that's what they do — not what the author claims to have done.
Who writes this
Posts are bylined to Mara Greer, the editorial voice of the site. Wicked Route is researched and written with AI assistance under editorial direction, and every post is reviewed before publication. Sources are cited; lineage and personal experience are never invented. If we get something wrong, please tell us and we will fix it and credit you in the post.
This disclosure is here because honesty is a feature, not because we were required to write it. Most of the AI-generated witch content online lies about who made it. We won't.
How to use the site
- Correspondences — herbs, crystals, colours, moon phases. Encyclopedic entries, cross-linked.
- Spells & rituals — documented workings, traced back to the tradition they come from.
- Sabbats — the Wheel of the Year, with the history that's usually flattened out of it.
- Guides — long-form introductions to practical questions.
- Field notes — essays and observations.
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