Unless you’re following a specific tradition or template, all you need for witchcraft is yourself. It’s less about having the right materials and more about doing what you can with what you have. (Unless what you have is from a closed practice you aren’t a part of or invited to XD.)
Here’s the 5 categories of what I usually use and some examples:
✒️ Something to draw with
A blank page or canvas is an altar, a portal to other worlds.
- Oak galls, peach pits, ashes, rose petals and other forageables to make ink.
- Dry erase markers and chalk for temporary/easily washable sigils and things
- Receipts, napkins, other paper scraps. Sigils can be traced with a finger or other non-destructive way onto paperwork before mailing.
- Sketch/notebooks. There are a lot of tutorials for binding your own books. I’m pretty partial to the Coptic Stitch.
- Free pens from banks for prosperity magic, from doctor’s offices for medical, etc.
🔥 Something to make fire
Fire makes smoke, dancing shadows, warmth, transformation, destruction…a jötunn that fit in your pocket or consume an entire forest.
- matches
- candles, can be carved and painted
- lighters, can be drawn on
- symbols that represent fire if safety is a concern
- incense
⛾ Something to hold stuff
A vessel for making offerings, hydrating, collecting, pouring what serves and what doesn’t.
- drinking horns
- water bottle with witchy stickers, I’ve also used a disposable one and salt packets for holy water
- embroidered pockets
- jars
- bowls
🗡️ Something to cut
Pruning, preening, piercing and piecing.
- Þorns, runic and plant-based
- pocket and other knives
- nail clippers
- scissors
- hole punch
🔮 Something to divine
Sometimes you know what you want the answer to be or story to go before you look~
- coins
- playing cards
- phone screen scrying
- runes made with poker chips, bottle caps, etc.
- the radio or playlist shuffle button
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