4 Reasons Why Being a Kitchen Witch is Awesome | Welcome To Wicca Now

Hi, my loves and welcome to WiccaNow. Recently I’ve been talking about a range of different things, from common altar decorations to a protection jar spell, to a love spell without ingredients to a post on mirror magick and most recently I talked about Wiccan altar cloths. Today I want to talk about something close to my heart, which I get asked about really often, namely, kitchen witchery! 

Kitchen Witchery Explained

Kitchen witchery has seen a huge rise in popularity lately, maybe because more people have been staying home and as such have had more time to research and experiment in the kitchen. While this resurgence is wonderful, did you know that kitchen witchcraft is actually one of the oldest forms of witchcraft out there?

The hearth has been considered the heart of the home for a very long time. A kitchen witch uses this magickal energy and works with it to hone her craft.

The use of herbs and spices as healing tools have a long history; and who do you think would be the one preparing the remedies and herbal offerings? A kitchen witch of course! Imagine an ancient tribe, who’s medicine woman (or man) is the central part of the community. Definitely kitchen witchery. Or the woman (let’s be real, a lot of kitchen witches tend to be women) who lives on the outskirts of an old town and uses foraged herbs to help heal the sick? Maybe she uses salt to keep the spirits away and says a blessing when she lights the fire. She’s definitely a kitchen witch.

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I bet everyone can think of at least one historical example of this form of witchery if they put their minds to it. As odd as it may seem, Hildegard von Bingen, a Catholic nun, could be considered a kitchen witch.

Kitchen Witchery is a fascinating path to go down, and one that I love dearly. While I would consider myself more of an eclectic witch, kitchen witchery is probably what I lean most heavily towards in most of my practices. I mean, the kitchen is always at the heart of everything we do. How many parties have you been to where everyone ends up standing in the kitchen? Most people feel comfortable there and food is something that brings everyone together (if you ask me anyway). This is what makes kitchen witchery such a joy to practise.

Now, without further ado, let’s get into what it means to be a kitchen witch along with other vital questions. 

kitchen witch sitting in the middle of a range of fruit, vegetables and foods on a watercolour background

What does it mean to be a Kitchen Witch?

A kitchen witch uses the home and the kitchen as their main tools for magickal practices. A kitchen witch might set up an altar on a shelf in the kitchen, or might consider the whole kitchen to be their altar. Magickal tools would come in the form of a favourite kitchen knife, an inherited wooden spoon, a chopping board out of a specially chosen piece of wood or anything that the witch in question loves and considers a magickal tool. This could extend to literally anything and everything that might be used in the home or kitchen. 

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A kitchen witch will often have a strong connection to nature and as such has a good understanding of plants and ingredients. Many kitchen witches have a lot of knowledge about herbs and their properties, both magickal and health-wise. A kitchen witch tends to be more practical than ceremonial and will usually have no problem substituting one ingredient for another if they don’t have the called for ingredient on hand. 

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A kitchen witch will have a lot of respect for the ingredients they use. They will generally have a good understanding of how things grow and where they come from so that they are able to appropriately use these ingredients in their craft.

A kitchen witch will use cooking, baking and ingredients as a tool to infuse their magickal intent with. Most things they do in the kitchen will have some form of magickal element involved. This might mean that they simply infuse love into their dishes or it might be more complicated in the form of a healing spell for a friend. They tend to be very aware of the magick of the every day and will tend to appreciate the smaller things in life just as much as the bigger things.

I love the freedom that comes with this form of witchcraft. I’m notorious for substituting when I cook and this naturally trickles down into my craft. I’d be a terrible ceremonial witch because I’m just not that good at following exact instructions! Being a kitchen witch means appreciating the things that are happening right now, rather than waiting for a particular day or date on which to perform a ceremony or ritual. 

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Where did the Kitchen Witch come from?

As mentioned before, the kitchen witch is one of the oldest forms of witchcraft out there! People have been practising this form of witchcraft for centuries, even if they did it without calling it kitchen witchcraft. You could probably say the kitchen witch is as old as civilisation itself, given that most ancient tribes would have performed healing and ritual magick by using native…

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