Part 6 Cornish Adventures in Paganism and Witchcraft Blog The Lizard Part 6 Cornish Adventures in Paganism and Witchcraft Blog The Lizard

Part 6 Cornish Adventures in Paganism and Witchcraft Blog The Lizard

Its too early for this…. I’m supposed to be ordering witchcraft books and tarot today for our witchcraft store online… But I need to blog… So I’m putting on my big witch pants and forcing myself. Its Beltane, and as usual the weather in Michigan at this time of year cant decide if it wants to freeze us or bake us.

So let’s return to our pagan adventures in Cornwall before I start ordering more spell books and tarot cards for our witchcraft supplies store.

Im going to talk about one of Pat’s favorite parts of Cornwall today…. The Lizard … Wild, lonely and even for Cornwall, sparsely populated… It’s a peninsular that juts out southwards into the English Channel on the south coast of Cornwall.

The Lizard is a rugged sanctuary where the veil between pagan history and traditional witchcraft folklore is famously thin. In Cornwall, traditional witchcraft was a way of life. Witches, called Pellars, in Cornwall were an essential part of rural life. The peninsula's isolation gave itself a distinct brand of pagan witchcraft and magick, the so called "Pellar" traditions, that flourished in this Celtic corner of England long after it had been persecuted out of existence elsewhere in England.

The Lizard was always the domain of cunning men and women, locally known as Pellars. These practitioners were sought after for "unbewitching" livestock, healing ailments providing amulets and talismans, Love and protection Spellcraft, and providing warding against the "Evil Eye." Cornish witches were integrated and valued participants of the community, serving as healers and sensitives who navigated the liminal relationship between the land, sky and sea. Witches and Pellars would charm the fields with their spellcasting to encourage bountiful harvests and protect crops and livestock from disease.

The landscape screams liminal traditional witchcraft… Its windswept and wild, rocky, with plunging secret coves and gorgeous beaches, lagoons, ponds, tors and crazy rock formations. The peninsula has astonishing and unique geology. Soapy Cove is a famous spot for crystal hunters and rock hounds. The tip of the peninsular is famous for Serpentine, a dark, greenish stone often associated with serpentine energy and ancient earth mysteries. It also occurs in green and red… Serpentine only occurs in three places on Earth. The kind from Madagascar is a pale green. The Cornish variety is gorgeous with greens and reds and blacks in veins often with green silica flashes. This geology and wild cliffs and landscape combined with the treacherous waters of the "Ships graveyard” created tales of pagan and witchcraft marine magick. "Wind-selling” was a common form of Spellcraft, where witches sold knotted ropes to sailors that, when untied, would release specific winds to guide them home.

The Pellar lives on today through modern practitioners of Traditional Witchcraft and the local landmarks that bear their names. We had lunch at the famous “Witch Ball” restaurant… And went healing crystal shopping In the many witchcraft stores in Lizard Town. The Lizard with its wild, atmospheric soul will always have our hearts. It is a place where the ancient "Pellar's Oath" still echoes in the salt air, reminding us that magick in Cornwall is as much about surviving the elements as it is about the supernatural.

Here is us at the amazing Poltesco Cove beach… You can actually see the seams of Serpentine… The storms break chunks out of the cliffs which are then smoothed and polished by the sand and waves.

Old Cornish witchcraft and pillar practices talk of “The serpent stone”… This key tool of the witch was said to have gold zigzags like lightening… And was used to store “sprowl” – the power of the land… the land energy… The witch would walk the land and gather the power of the sprowl and charge the serpent stone with it… My theory is that Cornish Serpentine IS the serpent stone of Cornish witchcraft lore.

I carry my own palm stone sized sea polished chunk of serpentine in my pocked always… And I use it in the same way as the Cornish witches… I charge it with power raise in ritual magick or when walking the land and the power is palpable… And I store it in my serpent stone for later…

We gathered a bunch of Cornish serpentine and bought it home in a rucksack. We had so much I was concerned we would be allowed to bring it home in our weight allowance!

But we made it home safe… WE have gorgeous pieces of Cornish Serpentine we gathered and tumbled ourselves at our witchcraft supplies store and sometimes on our witchcraft supplies online store.

We were the first witchcraft supplies store in the USA to carry the wonderful TROY BOOKS of cornwall… Associated with the famous witchcraft museum and boasting some excellent scholars and traditional witchcraft authors such as Gemma Gary, Kerry Wisner and Corrine Boyer…

Now while you look at our enviable selection of Traditional Witchcraft books on our witchcraft store online… Its time for me to get back to ordering spell books and tarot cards for our witchcraft supplies online store!

An EXCELLENT traditional Witchcraft beginners book! Highly Recommended! Traditional Witchcraft

Another excellent book by witch Gemma Gary - but on Devonshire traditional witchcraft : Silent As The Trees - Devonshire Traditional Witchcraft

An excellent new Troy Books release on Traditional witchcraft and cunning craft. The Art - A Grimoire Of Traditional Witchcraft

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