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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Murphy-Hiscock, Arin, author.

The house witch / Arin Murphy-Hiscock, author of The Green Witch.

Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN 2018031985 | ISBN 9781507209462 (hc) | ISBN 9781507209479 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Witchcraft. | Home--Miscellanea.

Classification: LCC BF1566 .M8835 2018 | DDC 133.4/3--dc23

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Always follow safety and commonsense cooking protocols while using kitchen utensils, operating ovens and stoves, and handling uncooked food. If children are assisting in the preparation of any recipe, they should always be supervised by an adult.

Contains material adapted from the following title published by Adams Media, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.: The Way of the Hedge Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, copyright 2009, ISBN 978-1-59869-974-6.

Dedication

For Ada and Audrey, who are discovering magic as a way to help the world around them and heal those they care about.

Acknowledgments

My endless thanks go out to the team at Simon & Schuster who worked on this book to bring it to a new round of readers, including Eileen Mullan and Brett Palana-Shanahan. Thanks also go out again to my original team at Adams Media who helped develop the first version of this book, especially Andrea Hakanson. Of all the paths within witchcraft, hearth magic is the one closest to my heart, and I will be forever grateful to her for helping me to initially share it with readers.

Your home is a place of refuge, renewal, and creativity, where you begin and end each day. It is also the primary root of your energy and spirituality. The house witch works to honor and strengthen that sacred space, making it as simple, peaceful, and nourishing as possible.

Unlike green witches who focus on nature-based practices and kitchen witches who concentrate on food and cooking, the house witch explores and uses the magic of the home. While other spiritual paths often look beyond the home to focus on the natural world, the house witch creates a solid and supportive place to work froma literal (and magical) home base.

In The House Witch , youll explore the energies of hearth and home and learn how you can create a spiritual haven for yourself and your loved ones in todays busy world. Inside these pages youll learn how to:

Locate and enhance your homes spiritual hearth

Perform rituals to protect and cleanse your home

Build a kitchen shrine

Prepare recipes that blend magic and food

Master the secrets of the cauldron and the sacred flame

Bring the ancient house witch practices into modern times

Produce hearth-based arts and crafts

In essence, the role of the house witch is to serve as a facilitator for the spiritual well-being of herself, her family, and her welcomed guests. Her home is her temple, which she tends in order to keep energy flowing smoothly and freely, as well as to honor the principles she upholds. She seeks to support and nurture her family (and extended community) in both a spiritual and physical fashion. So if you are ready to explore the magic that may be found or created in your home and use it to better your life, then lets get started.

IF THERES SOMETHING ALL PEOPLE have in common, its the need for shelter, nourishment, and a place to call home. That place is somewhere to return to for refuge, renewal, relaxation, and rejuvenation. In this chapter youll learn about the concept of home and its place in a spiritual life.

Spirituality comes from within, and the spiritual path or practice you choose gives it context. One of the most common of those contexts is the hearth, the spiritual center of the home. No matter what your current spiritual path is, rooting it in your hearth makes a lot of sense and can nourish the rest of your spiritual life.

Hearthcraft is a spiritual path rooted in the belief that the home is a place of beauty, power, and protection, a place where people are nurtured and nourished on a spiritual basis as well as a physical and emotional basis. Hearthcraft describes the home-based portion of the spirituality associated with the path of the house witch. It is not kitchen witchcraft, although that can play a role within a house witchs practice. It is also not green witchcraft, although that, too, can influence and enrich a hearth- and home-based practice.