Reconstructionist Traditional Witchcraft 101

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Definition:

• Defining Reconstructionist Traditional Witchcraft
• Why Reconstructionism matters
• “Is [X] or [Y] a part of Recon Traditional Witchcraft?”

Basic Practice/Vademecum:

• The Basic Practice
  
• How to adapt the basic practices to your Country and Region in order to reconstruct your Regional Tradition
• Why history books describe (Recon Trad) Witchcraft better than any practitioner book
  
• Deepening about the Wild Hunt

History:

• A bit of history
• Deepened history
• Another bit of history: Dual Faith, Renouncing Christianity & relationship between Witchcraft, Folk Magic and Pagan Survivals
• Deepenings about the difference between Cunning Folk and Witches
• Mutual hostility between pre-Christian Spirits and the Abrahamic god (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

Deepenings about Practice:

• Tools in Reconstructionist Traditional Witchcraft, the Devil, the Flying Ointment and Grimoires
• Familiar Spirits
• What is a Major Spirit?

• Offerings to the Major Spirits (i.e. the Gods)
• Traditional Fairy Offerings
• How to make offerings to the Major Spirits, the Animal Familiar or the Household Fairy explained with… GIFs!
• Discovering your Animal Familiar Spirit: Recon, Revivalist and Recon-derived Approaches
• Ancestor Worship in Recon TradCraft… with GIFs!
• Dreamwork and the Oneiric Sabbath
• Trance Techniques (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
• Distinguish Real Visions from Imagination 
• The Sabbath
• Renouncing Christianity & Self-Initiation (Part 1) (Part 2)

Some of the main Major Spirits in Recon TradCraft:

• Hellequin: leader of the Wild Hunt and Fairy King