This Easter holiday when making your ritual offering to the gods of Spring, why not create a golden lamb in effigy, and eat it? I’m sure the deities involved would be pleased with this sweet sacrifice.  Eating a lamb cake is perfectly in line with the traditional method of distributing edible portions of sacrificial animals…
Category: Food
Ultra Violence with Ultra Violets
As I stand packed in with a throng of folk whose average age is 65-70, mixed flowers are being thrown madly in all directions. A Gallic rave remix of popular tunes (Le Lapin Jive?) is blasting over a powerful sound system, a light icy drizzle is falling and everybody’s blood is up. A carnation hits…
The Two of Cups: A Love Spell Cocktail and Truffles for Valentine’s Day
As Valentine’s Day draws near, our thoughts turn to love, romance and flowers.  The Two of Cups is the tarot card that represents an ideal relationship between two people where there is balance, respect and genuine love. Parfait Amour (“perfect love” in French) is a violet-hued liqueur that tastes like a Victorian love potion combining the essences…
Predicting Possibilities With Pancakes
Mix a pancake, stir the pancake Pop it in the pan Fry the pancake, toss the pancake Catch it if you can See the pancake, what shape does it make? Gaze into the pan Show us, pancake, what is our fate? Speak! all-knowing flan.
Adventures in Strega, Italian Witch Liqueur
Liquore Strega is a saffron-hued herbal liqueur from Benevento, Campania, Italy. Â “Strega” is Italian for witch, drawing on legends of witchcraft in Benevento that go back to truly olden times. Â Benevento was a hotspot for a cult of Isis, a temple for which was also devoted to Hecate and Diana, all representing goddess moon aspects….
Chocolate Logs, Marzipan Mushrooms & Crowned Cakes
Cakes & Ale is the most often performed ritual within witchcraft, as well as one of the most ancient in practice, and consists of the sharing of food and drink among sorcières to mark a gathering. The concept of sharing a meal with someone to show goodwill dates back to prehistory and is symbolic of…
Holly & Ivy & Horned Gods
The traditional celebrations of Yule involve so many of the minor and major gods with their associated traditions/symbolism and multiple identities that to the casual observer it looks like a cross between a class reunion, a family party, and one of those horror stories where people go walking down long dark hallways and meet themselves…
It’s that season again…..
As the Winter Solstice party season looms, we must start thinking about plans for our Saturnalia bashes for December 17th – we can probably skip the human sacrifice part as it’s no longer terribly fashionable – but the traditional banquet for Saturn should certainly be observed.  Whether at your Feast of Fools you choose to…
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“In the beginning of the story, the gingerbread man is created when a little old woman decides to bake a gingerbread snack. When she looks into the oven to check the progress of her creation, the gingerbread man jumps out of the oven. The woman desires to eat him, so the gingerbread man runs away…
The New City Witches Cocktail Coven 