August Witchcraft
About this episode
This episode explores the significance of Bay and the Wild Boar in witchcraft, mythology, and folklore.
In this episode of The White Witch Podcast we step into the woods of August to explore two powerful allies of witchcraft, mythology and folklore - Bay and the Wild Boar. We begin with Bay a plant long associated with prophecy, protection, purification and victory. We explore the many ways Bay can be incorporated into your craft, from cleansing and divination to protection and banishing before following its mythological threads through Circe, Apollo and Daphne and into the sacred world of the Priestesses of Delphi. We also work with Bay practically finishing this section with a simple banishing spell using its leaves - ritual can be found here - https://witchesofthecraft.com/tag/bay-leaf/ Then we travel deeper into the ancient forest to meet the Wild Boar, a creature whose image appears again and again across European mythology as a symbol of ferocity, courage, sovereignty, abundance, protection and the mysteries of the Otherworld. We follow the boar through the story of Odysseus before travelling north into Norse cosmology and its connections with Freyr and Freyja including the golden boar Gullinbursti and Freyja’s companion Hildisvíni. We visit the great hall of Valhalla where…
People in this episode
Host: Carly Rose
Topics covered
- witchcraft
- mythology
- folklore
- Bay
- Wild Boar
- protection
- divination
Keywords
- witchcraft
- Bay
- Wild Boar
- mythology
- folklore
- protection
- purification
- divination
- Norse cosmology
- sacred rituals
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The White Witch Podcast, Valhalla
Places: Delphi, Europe, Britain
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