A Hedgewitch is a witch who practices both wortcunning and hedge jumping, that is, she has knowledge and skills about herbs and also astral projection. Many hedge witches also accumulate a great deal of wisdom about the natural world in general, particular their local ecology. Hedge witches often practice divination as well and act as a intermediary between the spirit or astral realms and the material realm. A hedgewitch is similar to a shaman in many ways but there is no central hedgewitch tradition and most hedgewitches are both solitary and eclectic in their practice.

A hedge, from the Old English haeg which is obviously related to hag defines the physical boundary between spaces, between a "civilized" garden and the wilderness, between life and death and between worlds. The primary skill of a hedgewitch navigating the hedges.

Learn More

• Walking the Hedge
• Flying the Hedge
• The Hedgewitch from the Pagan Federation in Scotland
• Hedge Witchery from Sarah Ann Lawless

Supporting articles in progress.
hedge riding, hedgecraft, hedgewitchery

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