Witchy Lesson 2: Types of Witches

Segment 1: Welcome & Recap

Welcome back, magical ones! In Lesson 1, we explored what witchcraft truly is: a practice, not a religion, and a path you define for yourself. Witchcraft is flexible, deeply personal, and rooted in connection—whether to nature, spirit, or your own inner power.

Tonight, we’re opening the door to the many different types of witches. Some of these paths are rooted in ancient cultures, while others are modern and evolving. Each path has its own flavor, focus, and energy.

✨ Live Energy Prompt: Drop a 🧬 in your journal or comments if you’ve ever wondered what type of witch you might be!

Segment 2: Why Knowing Your Type Helps

Understanding witch “types” isn’t about labels or limitation—it’s about alignment.

Focus: Knowing your type helps you concentrate your studies and spell work.
Identity: It gives you a sense of belonging and direction.
Tools: It clarifies which practices and tools will feel most natural.
Flexibility: Your path can evolve. You can embody more than one type at once.

✨ Remember: You don’t have to fit neatly into a box. This journey is about discovering what calls to your spirit.

Prompt to Reflect: Are you most drawn to herbs, the stars, the sea, your dreams, or the kitchen? That whisper may be your path calling.

Segment 3: Traditional, Regional & Cultural Witch Types

Many witchcraft traditions are rooted in cultural and regional practices. These paths often carry generations of wisdom.

Traditional Witch: Works with old customs, folklore, and spirits tied to a region (e.g., the British Isles).
Granny Witch: Appalachian healers blending folk magic, herbal remedies, and often Christianity.
Bruja/Brujería: Latina practice blending Indigenous, African, and Catholic influences.
Curandera/Curanderismo: Mexican healing path using prayer, herbs, and spiritual cleansings.
Conjure/Rootworker/Hoodoo: African American folk magic rooted in survival, protection, candle work, and mojo bags.
Strega: Italian folk magic focused on family traditions, saints, and ancestral spirits.
Seidr Witch: Norse path of trance work, fate weaving, shapeshifting, and runes.
Celtic Witch: Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditions; often work with the fae and nature spirits.

⚠️ Important Reminder: Some of these practices are closed or require initiation. Respect these boundaries. You can honor them without appropriating.

✨ Prompt to Reflect: Do you feel drawn to a specific culture’s magic? Does your ancestry connect you to one of these paths?

Segment 4: Practice-Based Witch Types

These types are defined by what witches do and how they practice:

Green Witch: Works with plants, herbs, gardening, and nature spirits.
Kitchen Witch: Brings magic into meals, teas, and everyday food.
Hearth Witch: Makes the home a sacred, magical space.
Elemental Witch: Works with Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit.
Sea Witch: Connects to the tides, ocean energy, and shells.
Weather Witch: Works with storms, wind, and atmospheric energy.
Tech Witch: Creates digital sigils, online altars, or blends tech with spell work.
Art Witch: Channels creativity (painting, writing, music, dance) into magic.
Dream Witch: Explores lucid dreaming, astral travel, and dream messages.
Divination Witch: Focuses on tarot, pendulums, runes, or scrying.
Shadow Witch: Explores inner wounds, healing, and subconscious work.
Death Witch: Works with ancestor veneration, spirit communication, and death rites.

✨ Prompt to Reflect: Which feels more “you”—brewing tea with intention, or stargazing and writing down your dreams?

Segment 5: Spiritual & Archetype-Based Witches

Some paths are defined by spiritual frameworks or archetypal energies:

Wiccan Witch: Practices within the Wiccan religion, often honoring a God/Goddess pair.
Dianic Witch: Goddess-centered, feminist, sometimes women-only.
Faery Witch: Works with fae energy and nature spirits, intuitive and eclectic.
Chaos Witch: Uses belief as a magical tool; experimental and flexible.
Eclectic Witch: Combines multiple traditions into a personal practice.
Solitary Witch: Practices alone, independent of groups or covens.
Coven Witch: Works in group rituals with shared tradition and energy.

✨ Prompt to Reflect: Do you prefer structure and tradition, or freedom and experimentation? Do you thrive alone or in group settings?

Segment 6: Pop Culture, Modern & Identity-Based Witches

Modern life has birthed new witch archetypes too:

Crystal Witch: Works with stones and crystal healing.
Glamour Witch: Uses beauty, fashion, and personal presentation as spell work.
Urban Witch: Practices in the city, finding magic in concrete, streets, and found objects.
Blood Witch: Works with blood symbolism, fertility, or menstrual magic.
Cultural Witch: Draws on personal ancestry for authentic practice.

✨ Prompt to Reflect: What aspects of your modern identity influence your magic?

Segment 7: How to Discover Your Witch Type

Not sure where you fit? Here are clues:

What are you naturally drawn to?
Where do you feel most comfortable in ritual or nature?
What fascinated you as a child? (Often hints at past-life or soul memory magic.)

Activity:

Journal Prompt → “The kind of magic that feels most like me is…”
Tarot Exercise → Pull four cards, one for each element. Ask: “Where does my energy want to lead me right now?”

Segment 8: You Can Be More Than One

You don’t have to choose just one type!

A Green + Dream Witch may garden by day and explore dreams by night.
A Tech Witch may still honor the fae.
Labels are tools for understanding, not cages to trap yourself in.

✨ Prompt to Reflect: What two or three paths blend naturally for you?

Segment 9: Closing Reflection & Homework

Journal Prompts:

What type of witch resonates with me most today?
What part of this lesson surprised me?
How might I explore this in daily life?

Homework Ideas:

Try a small practice aligned with your type (brew a tea, charge a crystal, write a dream journal).
Add your chosen type(s) to your Book of Shadows.

🌙 Closing Thought:
You don’t need to become anything you’re not—you only need to remember who you are.

Teaser for Lesson 3

✨ “Next week, we’ll dive into magical tools: from crystals and candles to bells and blades. What do they do? Which ones do you really need? Let’s find out together.”