Hey, I’ve been exploring the topic of the witches’ devil lately, and I want to share my perspective on it with you and find out if you agree with me. I also want to ask you one thing at the end. So, it seems to me that there are two ways to look at the witches’ devil.

1. A single multidimensional power, a syncretic figure that arose mainly as a result of lumping many pagan spirits together under the label “Devil.” It has many faces, such as Cain, the Man at the Crossroads, Azazel, Bucca, Cernunnos, and many horned deities and spirits. However, these are merely faces, aspects of a single syncretic entity (I’m not claiming that Azazel and Cernunnos are the same, but both of these spirits merge into the figure of the Devil). This concept is described, for example, by Roger Horn in his book "The Witches’ Devil", and I also see it in other books on tradcraft where this entity is treated as a single, universal entity common to all witches.

2. The second way of looking at him is to treat the name “Devil” as a title for many distinct and individual beings. In this view, Cain, Azazel, etc., are separate entities. I think both of these ways of perceiving this complex figure are valid and are not mutually exclusive. However, I’m a fan of the second approach, because in traditional witchcraft, locality matters—working with what we have in our own region—and many places around the world have their own spirits identified with the Devil and his various incarnations, as well as personal insights about him. For example, in Cornwall, Gemma Gary has Bucca, although it seems to me that in her practice she works with this general version of the devil and treats Bucca as his local manifestation; but he was once a pagan deity of that place and was responsible, among other things, for the weather, so I think that working with him doesn’t necessarily have to involve the topic of the devil. It also seems to me that in the testimonies of witches from the trials, they often had their own individual spirits referred to as devils.

And now it’s time for my question. I live in Poland and I’m Polish; in my country, there’s no such thing as a single devil—in folklore and legends, you can encounter many distinct devils. “Devil” is a category that encompasses many spirits in my country, and they have their own names, such as Rokita and Boruta. Practitioners of magic in my country often say that to perform traditional sorcery in our context, one should work specifically with them—that is, with our local Polish devils. Boruta and Rokita are just two of many other names; in fact, you can often encounter devils in the forests who may not necessarily be them, and whose names are unknown to the general public. The local devils in my region are similar to many other descriptions of the devil; they, too, are tricksters, and you can encounter them at crossroads. They originally stem from ancient Slavic demons. Do you think working with such a devil in the context of sorcery would be a good idea? Or is it better to work with this syncretic, generic devil? Do you share my view of the devil?

I live in Florida, so it’s hot here like every day.

So I was cleaning chicken bones, and I was pondering on how to dry them. They were previously soaked in hydrogen peroxide, so I didn’t want to put them in the air fryer, and then I remembered a science project they taught in Summer School one year.

Using a BOX to bake shit out in the sunlight

I forgot how to make it, so I had to look it up, but you just take a shoe box, pizza box, I used a bully breed box because my aunt has a subscription for Riley to get things like toys and treats(Riley is an American Bulldog).

I used a glue stick to glue tin foil on the inside, cut a hole in the top, and since I didn’t have any Saran Wrap, I butchered a freezer bag and glued that on the bottom of the flap to let sunlight in

I really like this because sunlight will not only cleanse the bones, but charge them too for divination, and I won’t have to worry about any birds stealing my bones

I can also continue to use this to dry out herbs

It’s also resourceful, and saves money on electricity

It's kinda fading rn, but it's like my 2nd time trying henna!!!

I've asked azazel to keep me alive and get me out of a war to see my mom cuz she was in some situation and in return i will un al*ve 3 ppl who i hated(i did this by writing my intentions in a paper and dropped a blood on it and threw it around corps) and after 7 days i got hit and went home(to hospital in the same city where my fam lived) but i didn't do what i promised cuz i couldn't find them ppl i don't know where they at

and now i wanna work with him again for money wealth etc and i wanna know if the undone promise can keep me from getting what i want

I hope i can get some answer preferably from someone who been working with azazel for some time

Hi, I’m looking for some guidance. Has anyone done obsession, love spells or anything related to love or along those lines. Please share your experience, if it did work or not, what was the outcome?

I want to do a protection and a sweetening spell but im not sure if I can do two spells a day or would they contradict eachother? I dont have a lot of experience with spells (i focus more on divination) but I feel like i need a protection spell if for no other reason than peace of mind. Please let me know if this is possible, thank you!

Just curious to see if anyone else felt what I did. (:

Hii, sorry if this post is poorly written, English is not my first language. So i've been learning about witchcraft for a couple of years but I'm still learning,I know the basics about glamour magic, but I want to delve deeper because I want to work on my physical appearance and, above all, my self-esteem and energy (to become more magnetic) I'm still not entirely sure where to start, and I'm not certain where to find books to better understand the topic, so I would be very grateful if someone could guide me, whether by recommending books,recommending videos or YouTube channels, or simply sharing your experience, thank you¡

I havnt used tarot in a long time and recently visited a few occult shops near me. Saw this deck and felt extremely drawn to it. Did my first reading on myself in years and it's crazy the insight it provides. Wanted to share and encourage everyone to check out their local shops, never know what you may find

I had to move so I am rebuilding mine and would love to see how others have theirs!

Recently head feeling heavy with negative thoughts. Negativity. Lack of confidence and overthinking. Hairfall. Mother not keeping healthy.

Hiya, what music or sounds do you listen to when meditating? Do you picture nothing or do you follow the story the sounds cause (ie. like forest sounds or ocean)

I am attempting to practice hearing guidance or what I am doing is being heard.

As I am at the beginning of this journey I have found and odd sense of calm and peace after a bad separation and things the ex has done to cause me emotional pain.

Being someone who has been quite strong agnostic I feel I am struggling in the "devotion" sense as I feel I have to see to believe or facts but there is this odd itch even faint that believes in the mystical, fate, etc. I want to believe more but not sure of the signs.

It is a very unusual experience to say the least.

I will try to make this story short. I was in a relationship and had a very good connection with this person. On may 29th we took a little weekend trip and I took place in a moon ritual with her brother and friends. She did not participate. This same day she told me she loved me for the first time earlier in the day. Well I spoke to the moon and asked for success, happiness, and growth with my relationship and then immediately after, everything went crashing down. I was broken up with on June 11th after everything was going so well. Been in no contact since. Also immediately after the moon ritual, I did a tarot reading and pulled the moon card. I do not remember the other cards pulled. I am new to the whole spiritual side of things and this was my first practice I did and I felt like it showed me what was up. I want reconciliation but I feel like it’s not going to happen deep down and her decision was final but you never know.
I have been trying to heal and practice meditation. I feel like this process was telling me to trust the universe and be more mindful. Today I went and bought some crystals which are carnelian, rose quarts, rhodonite, and rhodochrosite. My intentions with these are to help with healing, self confidence, and potentially open myself back up and have good energy that she might would want to reconcile with. Any advice is appreciated as I am new to the spiritual side and I want to make sure I do things right. Or any other crystal or practice advice is welcome.

I have suddenly hit an all time low confidence because of my hairfall. I need advices from my fellow witches to literally grow them all back. Would really appreciate some spells or tricks to help me out

Hi! I'm very new to all witchy stuff and magick. I recently got a new bag, and I thought about painting runes on it. I already have some talismans with bindrunes made of wood, handcrafted by me. I gave them my intention and charged them (a long time ago, I knew even less about all of this). My question is, should I paint bindrunes just like normal runes? Is there a special process to this? What should I have in mind as I paint them? Should I be worried about my talismans? Sorry for so many questions, I'm just starting and want to do things correctly😅

I dream of orcas at least once a week and I’m wondering if my mind is just really into them or if there’s some dream meaning per chance?

Question. I don’t do spells or anything. But my daughters been going through it so I just said small prayer and lit a red and white candle. Why is the red candle doing this? This happened today and one I did about 4 days ago? Again, I wasn’t trying to do a a spell or anything. How would this be interpreted?

I am very spiritual and a tarot reader I must say that to start.

In the city I live in, there are a lot of Roma people begging or trying to sell stuff on the street which I got used to. There was an old woman that I've seen multiple times trying to sell a small icon and she came to me multiple times after going to multiple people and I have refused to buy it and she just went on with her way.

Today i saw her coming straight into my direction while looking at me, without going to other people before and then she came to me to convince me to buy the icon. I couldn't really understand her because she had a certain dialect and spoke really quietly and I kept telling her I'm not interested.

At some point she made a gesture like "aah I understand now" and she put the icon back in her pocket and took out some tarot cards, and showed me the four of cups, and said stuff like "think about (...)" "God bless you" and asking me to put some money (the exact amount of change I had in my pocket) there on the cards.

I didn't recognise the cards and it was probably something in Russian written on there. They were small and maybe they were regular cards with the symbol changed.

It weirded me out that she actually stayed and explained stuff I couldn't understand to me for actual few minutes when I have rejected her for multiple times and when i left she said something like "may the devil eat you"

I felt a huge energy coming from her but I'm not sure if it's positive or negative and I'm still shaking. I'm not sure what her intentions were.

Sorry if this isn't written right, english isn't my first language and I will answer any questions.

I want some advice over this

My partner and I have been together on and off for over 5 years and it seems like every time things start going really well there is some big fight or a collapse and we fall apart and we seperate for a while. Then we come back and make it work again with a lot of hesitations because its like we dont want to fall back into the same pattern and fall apart again.

I know what some of you are thinking, the relationship must be toxic if there is that many reasons to seperate, but honestly its not. There are complications, the major one being we are long distance and only see eachother ever few months and because of that she typically has a "local partner" that she spends some time with but its much more casual. Our issue is mainly that she has never seen herself being in a long term committed relationship and so when our casual relationship got more serious it was scary to her. Since that point, i think when things get "too good" she looks for an "out" and starts a fight and uses that to take a step back from being so serious...

Hopefully that is enough background.... Basically my question is this, are there any spells or rituals i can perform to build a stronger more stable relationship with her and bring us closer together again? Like right now, we are barely more than friends and we dont even talk every day because she needed more space and she said being in a serious relationship was too constructing and overwhelming... We love eachother, like I have never felt this way about another person before and she has told me the same thing, but I want to manifest a stronger relationship with her! Is there any spells work I can do to open her up to me more, so she is not afraid to be in a serious relationship?

*side note: we are both firm believers in intentional magic and occasionally used to practice together but havent in moths

I’ve been interested and feeling called into looking into the fae, problem is I’m in northern Indiana and can’t seem to find any resources, and I’m trying to stay respectful and not cross into Native American culture so I don’t accidentally culturally appropriate. Is there any people who work with the fae in my area, and if so how would I start my research/working with them. Thanks a bunch to people who answer❤️ ( also if this is the wrong space to ask that’s my bad, this is my first Reddit post)