Witch Krafting with Kat

Hi all, well as I type I got a bit of a Summer or should that be late Spring cold. So this weeks Witchy Wednesday has been postponed until I am feeling better which I am hoping means normal proceedings will return next week.  So this week sees the return of 'Kat's Witches Gallery!' This one is all about Fancy dress Costumes from Summer Balls to Halloween to New Years Eve parties. For centuries we have worn costumes at parties, in the case of the rich often very elaborate ones! Here are some fantastic images of costumes to inspire and impress you.  All images were sourced from Pinterest a great place to find photos, art, crafters and ideas.  Please visit my Pinterest Board for more images. This board is updated regularly.  https://pin.it/JL0Xgolsr Witchy Wednesday will hopefully return next week. 

Foxgloves and bees in my garden last year 2024.    Foxgloves a Witches favourite.  🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 I have always loved Foxgloves! Each year no matter how things in my universe are I always try and grow some my favourite flowers in my little garden. They have always fascinated me, as a child my grandmother used to tell me that wherever Foxgloves grew there was a blurring of our world and the world of the fairy folk. That when they gently swayed when there was no wind it was because there were fairies near by fluttering their wings and causing a gentle draught .  There are many folk stories around Foxgloves involving fairies, also known as Ladies fingers, deadmans bells, Witches gloves, Goblin gloves and Witches thimbles. A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN BY WALTER CRANE Public domain.  Foxglove fairies from Enid Blyton Foxglove Story book   Some say they are homes for fairies, that they are places for fairies to sleep or that the thimble s...

  Interesting article on BBC website.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c991ypyvk4go.amp

  German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glass like substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers. 1660-1680 probably German. Information from The Met Museum, Public Domain.  Bellarmines! Witch bottles or “bellarmines” were filled with potions that were said to counter the maleficent magic of a black witch. Normally the potions consisted of hair and urine provided by the victim of the curse, pins, needles and wine. The bottles were then burned or buried somewhere within the house, whereby the evil would be captured, impaled on the pins and drowned by the wine. Bellarmines have been discovered buried under fireplaces, floors, and even plastered inside walls. Taken from BBC article please visit link below for more about British Witchcraft.  h...

  I got my book and Witch tartan sample from the Kickstarter campaign 😊 It was nice to be a small part of this important campaign to highlight and memorialise those who suffered being wrongly accused as Witches. Going to frame the tartan to hang up in my picture gallery along with my pamphlet image of The Northamptonshire Witches another sad bit of history closer to home. On a personal note having ancestors from both Scotland and in birth place in England I always find myself getting nervous when researching my family tree in case I would find any information of my family being caught up in the madness of accusing or being accused of Witchcraft! So far I haven't found anything though some of my family were broom makers! 🧹 Make of that what you will! 😆  Please join The Witches of Scotland on their Instagram page.  https://www.instagram.com/witches.of.scotland Please look out for me on Instagram too. This is all about me so it reflects my interests, my humour and my gar...

Public Domain image sourced from The  British Newspaper Archive.  Article in the Northern Weekly Gazette - Saturday 28 June 1902 DOLL OF WITCHCRAFT  Recently & curious doll was die. covered in Hungary by Franz von Crabnay, a noted ethnologist, and it haa been presented by him to the National Museum of that country. It is made of wax, and was fashioned by an old witch for a girl who had been forsaken by tier lover.  In order to make a doll of this kind effective as a love charm a long ceremony is necessary. First the witch and the girl meet at midnight in a room which has a window facing the east, and the witch hands the girl the doll and at the same moment utters the false sweetheart's name. The girl repeats his name three times, and after that two women utter this strange invocation: "Come back, I say; come back. If you don't may the demons pre-vent you from eating and from sleeping quietly in your bed. If you do not come back I will drive my knife into your hea...

  Happy May Day and Beltane Blessings to you all xxx 🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸