About the witch
Email: forestgrove.botanica@gmail.com
Who is the Witch of Forest Grove? I’m a folk magic practitioner with a focus in Scottish witchcraft and folk magic; which itself is a unique combination of Celtic and Norse influences. As I live in the new world I also incorporate local folk magic traditions into my practice –mainly the ethnobotany and spirit work of the local shamans. I am also training in the Vicia line of Victor and Cora Anderson’s tradition of witchcraft.
I am a woodcarver, charm maker, wildcrafter, mead maker, healer, as well as a diviner and mystic. I have a strong love of folklore, history, anthropology, and storytelling. I live in Forest Grove, in the rainforest that is Southwestern British Columbia. Here the Rain Gods dwell, the bloodthirsty spirits of the rivers and lakes still claim their yearly sacrifices, and shamans were practicing their ancient art only a half century ago. The earth pulses here in a land where the spirits and magic still thrive and the forest never stops trying to take back the pavement. I run Forest Grove Botanica from my home in the forest and my hubby Mojo runs the Wigglian Way Pagan Podcast.
I am also the storyteller of the HedgeFolk Tales Podcast, am creating an Ogham divination deck with a friend which we hope to have finished by 2011, and will soon be publishing a grassroots journal of operative witchcraft I hope to sell in the Botanica.
Slàinte!
Sarah
