🌜 Types Of Witches ✨

🌜 types of witches ✨

*disclaimer* these are notes from research i have done on the internet, and i myself am still learning. if you feel as if i have misinterpreted a certain type, or left something out, please let me know so i can further educate myself.

air witch: a witch that works with the element of air and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as air elementals, incense, and rhythmic breathing.

animal witch: a witch that works with animals, or a specific form of animal, and uses that animals energies in their practice. these witches will also work with the spiritual and physical forms of that animal and use magick based around it.

atheist witch: a witch who does not believe in any form of deity.

baby/beginner witch: a witch who is new to the practice and isn’t too knowledgable on the craft yet.

bone witch: a witch who uses bones in their practice, and can communicate with the spirits who used to own them, to allow them help in their practice.

blue witch: a witch who practices healing forms of magick such as reiki, yoga, acupuncture, energy healing, and quantum touch.

blood witch: a witch who practices blood magick and uses the energy of blood in their practice.

ceremonial witch: a witch who practices ceremonial magick and theurgy. they are focused on the ritual of the craft and draw power from performing a ceremony that is meaningful.

closet witch: a witch who is not open about their practice.

cosmic witch: a witch who uses cosmic or astrological bodies in their craft. they work with the energies of stars, the moon, the sun, and planets. they also may connect with deities associated with the stars or formulate spells based on planets, the alignment of the stars, etc.

cottage/hearth witch: a witch who focuses on the home, their families, and making the place they live comfortable and protected. they are witches who specialize in magick surrounding the home.

chaos witch: a witch who quite literally draws power from chaos. they usually perform emotional, tumultuous magick, and their spells are fueled by energy that clashes. they often perform magick with intense music, during storms, after a fight with a friend or significant other, or even when they’re just feeling a bit crazy emotionally. they also can perform powerful spells after a chaotic event in the world occurs.

coven witch: a witch who is in a group of witches, coven, or circle, and will be able to learn and practice magick with others.

color witch: a witch who uses the metaphysical meaning of colors in their magick.

dark witch: a witch who tunes into the darker side of the craft. they prefer to take things into their own hands and can be known to use older, traditional ceremonies. they also normally practice shadow work and prefer to practice at night.

death witch: a witch who practices death magick and works with the energies of death.

divination witch: a witch who practices divination such as cartomancy, rune casting, scrying, pendulum, tasseomancy, palmistry, and numerology.

desert witch: a witch who works with things from a desert such as desert sand, cacti, bushes, and spirits of the desert. they may or may not live near one.

draconian witch: a witch who works with dragons and draconic magick.

dream witch: a witch who works on and in their dreams, and may practice lucid dreaming. they may cast magick in their dreams and may also be dreamwalkers. these witches use their dreamscape as a home away from home.

eclectic witch: a witch who has an eclectic practice. this means that they will work with and learn from many different paths, practices, philosophies, traditions, and sources. they don’t have any one set religion that they must adhere to.

elemental witch: a witch who works with all of the western classical elements. these elements being fire, water, earth, air, and spirit. some elemental witches also choose not to incorporate the element of spirit.

earth witch: a witch that works with the element of earth and the energy that it possesses. they work with things such as crystals, herbs, rocks, earth elementals, the spirit of the land, and other earth-based tools.

fire witch: a witch that works with the element of fire and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as candle magick, fire elementals, bonfire rituals, and fire scrying, among other practices relating to fire.

forest witch: a witch who works with things from the forest such as the trees, the forest spirits, and forest animals. they may or may not live near one.

fae witch: a witch who works with fairies and fae magick. they love nature spirits, woodland creatures, and the fae, and they invite all of these elements into their practice.

green witch: a witch who uses nature-based things in their practice such as herbs, trees, stones, animals, and natural elements. they are very connected to the earth and draw their magick from nature and specifically from earthly elements.

garden witch: a witch who works with herbs and the earth, much like a green witch, but is focused on their garden and how they can incorporate it with their magick. this process is much like a home to a cottage witch.

gray witch: a witch who practices a neutral form of magick and uses a balance of both dark and light forms of magick.

hedge witch: a witch that uses magick that is oriented around the spiritual world. they practice things such as astral travel, astral projection, lucid dreaming, spirit work, and journeying. these witches are able to walk between worlds.

hereditary witch: a witch who gets their tradition passed down to them by their family, and they are born into the practices of witchcraft. they also usually have their family to practice with and to be there to help with development.

herbal witch: a witch that uses herbs in their practice. they will normally grow herbs and use them in many different ways in order to produce magickal effects such as burning them, turning them into tea, or sprinkling them around places.

kitchen witch: a witch who works with magick through cooking and uses the magickal properties of different foods.

lunar witch: a witch who works with the energies of the moon and the moon’s cycles. they usually charge their tools in the moonlight and perform their spells based on the phase of the moon.

pop culture witch: a witch who incorporates aspects of media in their practice such as things from movies, tv shows, books, and video games. they may also work with pop culture spirits and call upon them like traditional spirits.

purple witch: a witch who practices energy work, psychic abilities, and psionics.

religious witch: a witch who holds some form of religion. these include christian witches, satanic witches, pagan witches, wiccan witches, buddhist witches, muslim witches, jewish witches, hindu witches, along with any other type of religious witch.

red witch: a witch who practices love and sex magick.

sea witch: a witch who works with things from the sea such as seawater, sea glass, beach sand, seashells, and other tools associated with the sea. they may or may not live near it.

secular witch: a witch who is not religious and does not subscribe to a religious dogma. they believe in energy and work with energetic forces in witchcraft, but they do not pray to any kinds of gods or deities. a secular witch can certainly be spiritual in his/her own time, but their craft specifically works with energy that is unnamed and doesn’t have a personality.

solar witch: a witch who works with the energies of the sun. they usually benefit from charging their tools in the sunlight, and performing their magick at sunrise or sunset.

solitary witch: a witch who practices their craft alone or without a personal group such as a coven or circle of other practitioners.

spoonie witch: a witch that practices low-energy witchcraft due to a chronic illness, mental illness, disability, etc.

swamp witch: a witch who works with things from the swamp such as swamp water, the swamp spirits, and swamp animals. they may or may not live near one.

storm/weather witch: a witch who works with the weather and its energies in order to change it, receive energy, or achieve some other outcome. they may have a preference for a specific type of storm or enjoy chaotic weather energy in general, but will definitely feel more powerful when the energy is tumultuous. they also usually charge their tools during a storm and collect storm water, snow, etc. for use in spells.

stitch witch: a witch who works with thread, yarn, or other fibers for their work.

science witch: a witch who has a higher focus on science and will use their understandings of it in their practices. these witches usually do not portray scientism, and focus on a higher connection between science and their practice.

traditional witch: a witch who practices the forms of traditional witchcraft. they do a lot of research and take a historical approach to their magickal practice.

tech witch: a witch who works with modern technology in their practice, and will integrate computers and electronics with their magick.

tea witch: a witch who uses tea in their practice in order to facilitate certain effects through the act of drinking them.

theistic witch: a witch who believes in a form of deity.

water witch: a witch who works with the element of water and the energies that it possesses. they work with things such as the different kinds of water, water elementals, and water scrying, among other tools related to water.

white/light witch: a witch who practices benevolent forms of magick. they tend to gravitate towards more light deities and beings like angels.