I’m Blake Liddell, also known as Blackthorn Witch. I’m a writer and traditional hedgewitch, a word weaver and a thread spinner. I love books, yarn, history and magic. To learn more, follow the button below:

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Your strangeness is your beauty.

Have the courage to show it to the world.

— Blake Liddell

View fullsize The first touch of autumn is in the air… It comes first at night, the moon gaining a golden glow over her full face. That gold moon brings hints of turning leaves, of the scent of woodsmoke, of chill nights and woollen socks. The sight of it
View fullsize Come now to the heart of the forest, where the trees stand like giants, ancient and wise. Settle on the good earth at their feet and look up to the canopy, the interweaving of branches, the play of light through dancing leaves. Lie back and breathe
View fullsize I’ve been feeling all jangled. Nerves tangled and sparking. Hands twitching. My last loaf of bread sank in the middle and my knitting is missing a stitch. Small things in themselves, yet enough to make me feel despondent and despairing. A sud
View fullsize My reading wrap-up for January! Ten fabulous fiction and three intriguing nonfiction books. I have reviewed Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches on my website. What was on your January bookshelf? #bookwitch #readi
View fullsize I come creeping out into the sunshine, bleary eyed and a little disoriented. Last week saw a heat wave, brutal temperatures that brought on wild thunderstorms. Lightning strikes to powerlines knocked out the electricity. My house was lit with flicke
View fullsize In Lancashire in 1612, ten people were executed for the crime of witchcraft… Read my review of Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches by Carol Ann Lee, a close examination of the 1612 Pendle witch trial and the p
View fullsize Have you heard of portals? Places where worlds overlap, boundaries blur and you might slip from here to somewhere stranger? Sometimes people stumble onto them, unexpectedly and unaware. A wandering walk turned into something supernatural. There are
View fullsize Today has been grey and chilly, summer’s furnace heat washed away for the moment. Last night, a storm came. A storm that screamed as it approaches, wind whipping and wailing. Rain lashed in fierce squalls. Lightning and thunder came simultaneo
View fullsize Full moon, the first of the new year, rising brighter than any beacon. Wherever you are on the earth, the moon is above, the same shining white face looking down on us all. It seems like everyone is on edge right now. Everyone is agitated and anxiou
View fullsize What will fly in with this new year? What will you coax, laying out sweet offerings and tempting gifts? And what will you drive away, chasing from your life and firmly shutting out? For me, I seek the wonder of creating, the joy of making beautiful
View fullsize Heat waves, headaches and some hectic days have held up my posting, but here is my reading wrap up for November. A stand out this month was Monstrous Nights by Genoveva Dimova (@gen_dimova ) The second and concluding book of The Witch’s Compen
View fullsize It is that time of year when the nights swell with frog song. I lie in bed and listen to the chorus, from high piping calls to deep, bass beats so low they seem to reverberate in my bones. Water drips from the elder tree, her leaves green with growt

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