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Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Lightfoot Chronicles! In case you’re not familiar with the Magical Bakery Mysteries, they feature me, Katie Lightfoot. Shortly after I moved to Savannah, Georgia to start up the...
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A Hedgewitch, You Say
What exactly is a hedgewitch? Well, it depends on who you ask. Some folks find the term interchangeable with natural witch or green witch. Aunt Lucy tells me that in our family it means a someone who...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Do you believe in magic?In a young girl’s heartHow the music can free herwhenever it startsAnd it’s magic…Sorry. No.That’s not the kind of magic I mean. I’m not talking about the kind where a witch...
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A Bit Too Familiar
I’d like you to meet Mungo. Isn’t he a cutie?He’s a Cairn terrier, and I had no idea he was my familiar until Lucy told me. You know how cats are supposed to be witch’s familiars? Well, poo: I’m...
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Imbolc
I started this blog on Lunar New Year’s Day. And now, so soon, there is another holiday to celebrate. Or perhaps I should say “holidays”!February 2nd is Groundhog’s Day. Today Punxsutawney Phil will or...
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Sometimes You Just Know
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. The truly...
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Rosemary
When I arrived at the made-over carriage house I’d purchased in Savannah, the first thing I saw was my Aunt Lucy patting the soil around a rosemary topiary next to my front porch. The topiary was in...
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St. Valentine’s Day…or Lupercalia?
Happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovers out there!Here’s a little something you might not have known about this holiday, however. It might be named after a Catholic saint now, but February 14th was...
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Casting a Circle
Not all witches cast circles when they do spell work, but many do. And those who do cast circles may do it quite differently from one another.The basic idea behind casting a circle is always the same:...
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Element: Air
The four elements are important in spell work, but they also organize aspects of astrology and tarot cards. Colors, smells, textures, and even food are associated with the elements. Today I’m going to...
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Element: Fire
The four elements are important in spell work, but they also organize aspects of astrology and tarot cards. Colors, smells, textures, and even food are associated with the elements. Today I’m going to...
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Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway for the Advance Readers Copy of Brownies and Broomsticks! I wish I could give one to everyone, but unfortunately only have the two. And the winners,...
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Element: Water
Okay, we’ve talked about air and fire so far. Today I’ll pass on some of the witchy basics about water. The western compass point is the next stop on the clockwise (deosil) casting of a circle. Blue is...
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Element: Earth
Okay, we’ve talked about air, fire and water. Last but not least is the element of earth. The northern compass point is the next stop on the clockwise (deosil) casting of a circle. Green is the color...
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Funny How Things Work Out
I moved to Savannah from Akron. Things weren’t going so great in Ohio – my fiancé, Andrew, up and changed his mind about getting married, and I hated my low paying job as “assistant manager” at a...
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Sage for Purification and More
I’ve always grown sage in my herb gardens or in a pot on the window sill, as it’s one of my favorite culinary herbs. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Aunt Lucy hovering over a bowl of cheddar...
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Tools of the Trade: Pentacle
Thanks to the talented ladies in my spell book club, I learned there’s a lot more to this five-pointed star than I thought! (I’ll be introducing the spell book club members soon.)Okay, so here we go: A...
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Happy Spring!
Today is the first day of Spring. The Vernal Equinox!And Oestre! But I’ll get back to that. This is the day when the hours of light and the hours of darkness are equal. From here it only gets lighter...
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New Moon and Win a Book
Tonight is a new moon, which is a great time to set new intentions for your life and reaffirm ongoing ones. Just be sure to think in terms of growth – which will be reflected by the increasing...
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Humble Parsley
I grew up thinking of parsley as that pathetic limp sprig of green on the edge of restaurant dinner plates or tasteless dried stuff that had been sitting in the kitchen cupboard for a year. Since then...
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