I’m Blake Liddell, also known as Blackthorn Witch. I’m a writer and traditional hedgewitch, a word weaver and a thread spinner. I love books, yarn, history and magic. To learn more, follow the button below:

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Book Review- The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Book Review- The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
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Three Ways to Choose Your Crystals
Three Ways to Choose Your Crystals

While I was working at a witchcraft store, one of my favourite roles was helping customers to choose crystals…

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Time for Spring Cleaning and Cleansing
Time for Spring Cleaning and Cleansing

The Spring Equinox has just passed for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere. Now is the perfect time for a spring clean and cleanse!

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Your strangeness is your beauty.

Have the courage to show it to the world.

— Blake Liddell

View fullsize Beloved fox of the ember-bright fur, I am calling out to you. Canny fox, clever and cunning, you cannot be contained. More than that, you change and change again, shifting as the world shifts about you. First, your home untouched by human hands was
View fullsize The aurora is glimmering across the skies in the north and in the south. Here, where I live, the sky remains stubbornly clouded. I am too far north, I am sure, from the antarctic to see anything, even if the rain clouds drifted apart. I’ve nev
View fullsize When the brutal Tyrant’s children vanish into the north woods, Varis Thorn is summoned. The north woods isn’t like other forests. It overlaps with a strange and terrifying realm that lures children in, from which they never return. Varis
View fullsize Clouds hug the horizon, fog winding along the hollows and curling into creek-beds. Raindrops patter against the roof, glide down the window panes in silvered beads. This is the kind of day I love. I may not live in a forest cabin, yet I cannot ima
View fullsize I can feel autumn coming. Finally! The equinox was steamy and the days following stretched as bright and hot as summer’s peak. Only now do I catch a hint of the season’s shift, that first caress of chill in the air. The light is changin
View fullsize The moon is waning. The earth’s shadow creeps across that pale face, casting darkness over the land. I can feel the coming dark moon, each night moving closer to that point of still black. Full moons are too bright for me, moonbeams shining th
View fullsize Blackberries have a particular sweetness, especially when plucked straight from the vine. Those vines, though, are bristling with thorns. I learned that early on, a child tempted by the berries and soon finding thorns hooked into my soft skin, pi
View fullsize I’ve always had a special bond with cats. As a child, I learned the trick of coaxing feral farm kittens onto my lap, soothing their innate wildness and stroking their soft fur. In all my life, it has been very rare for me to not have a cat comp
View fullsize While I was working at a witchcraft store, one of my favourite roles was helping customers to choose crystals. I am a crystal lover and assisting people decide on the perfect crystal for them was wonderful. From my time at the witchcraft store, and f
View fullsize A flock of birds shifts and swirls through the sky like smoke. Murmuration, it is called. Vast numbers, more than you can count, moving together in perfection. They never collide or become entangled, they just wheel and whirl all together. Watchin
View fullsize Witch. Now there is a word. Gather a group of folks together and they’ll argue what it even means and who gets to wear it. All that contention over definition, though, doesn’t diminish the word itself. Witch. It has a power of its own.
View fullsize Sometimes you need time to wander. To slip away from the bright, busy world and travel into stillness. To breathe the scent of trees, of leaves unfurling, of water dancing by in a wild river rush. To rest your forehead against tree trunks, bark agai

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