A practitioner's research desk
An open archive of folk magic & its sources
Cross-tradition synthesis of folklore, history, and contemporary practice1,2 — cited, compared, and kept honest.
The collections
Six standing departments
I
Correspondences
Herbs, crystals, colours, moon phases — cross-referenced and sourced.
II
Spells
Documented workings, each traced to the tradition it comes from.
III
Rituals
Liturgical structures across folk and ceremonial paths.
IV
Sabbats
The Wheel of the Year, read back to primary folklore.
V
Guides
Long-form introductions to the practical questions.
VI
Field notes
Essays and observations from the research desk.
From the desk
Recently catalogued
- Wood BetonyPlaced first in the Old English Herbarium, betony's 29 remedies span elf-sickness to snake-bite — the most documented protective herb in medieval Europe.
- YewTaxus baccata — the 5,000-year churchyard survivor, the longbow's wood, a lethal cardiac poison, and the precursor of a frontline cancer drug.
- AshThe ash tree across the documented record: Yggdrasil in Norse sources, the first man Askr, the cleft-ash cure, and the shrew-ash — no mythology invented.
- OakSacred to Zeus at Dodona and Jupiter in Rome, the oak anchors three thousand years of documented tree religion—and a modern Druid image thinner than its bark.
- GoatFrom Azazel to Baphomet: how the goat became the sabbath's presiding figure — a layer-by-layer account of an assembled, not ancient, composite.
- BatFamiliar, ingredient, and omen — the bat's documented place in European witch-lore, its medieval taxonomy problem, and the Chinese tradition that made it a blessing symbol.
- SpiderWeaver of fate and bringer of luck: the spider's documented roles in classical myth, British folk belief, and wound-dressing tradition — sourced and dated.
- WolfRome's she-wolf, the Lycaon myth, and the early modern werewolf trials: documented history separated from silver-bullet fiction.