Our Beautiful witch
The herbalists, midwives, plant women, well and spring guardians, wisdom carriers.
Drowned, tortured, raped and executed.
And still, so many shrink away at the word ‘witch’ because they believe the stories, the words made to make you believe the killers, abusers and torturers were good, kind people.
To make you think that killing 16 year old women for making a nettle tea was right, to make you think that those who knew how plants healed should be drowned, that those who were guardians of sacred springs and knowledgable birth workers should be tortured and burnt alive.
The stories of witches are so clever that most people on this land don’t even understand the awful and terrible events that took place when a thirst for killing our native plant speakers took hold.
We took on that they were devil worshippers, baby eaters, children torturers, all so the wipe out of so many women felt like a good cleansing, a necessary evil.
People still now laugh, jeer and hate the witch, smirking at the handed down, hook nosed, green skinned image of her.
It’s sad, they’re laughing and fearing, mainly through ignorance, those who held great knowledge, they are supporting the cruelty that took place, and, as they turn their back on what happened, they look towards other native cultures for understanding on earth connection, plant medicine and spiritual practice, not seeing that all of that knowledge lies under their feet, and was violently wiped out, or almost wiped out.
It is time, to uncover the truth and bring back the voices of our native plant speakers, for this too, brings back the voice of the earth
Many blessings 💜🕊️💜
