{"id":40,"date":"2023-06-12T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:05:23","slug":"hail-and-welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/hail-and-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail and welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the Blog of Shadows. A concise, frank source of information about witchcraft and paganism, alongside my personal blog about daily life in Scotland as a witch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dusty tomes are therapeutic to flip through, but they are heavy, cumbersome and make you sneeze. Thus a Blog of Shadows is created to inspire and inform witches with an easy guide to correspondences, deities, divination methods and spells found in many neo-pagan, wiccan, animistic and omnist traditions. You\u2019ll also find a handy Frequently Asked Questions section where there are answers from my own perspective, as well as giving information on other paths and their take on matters such as general concepts of magic, divination methods, performing and creating spells, pagan and other celebrations, topical pagan topics, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a safe platform to find useful information delivered in a impartial manner, or read and enjoy my random musings. It is very wyrd and quite queer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About <\/strong>the creators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.pajh.org\/blogofshadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/headshot_circle_generic.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<p>Hi, I am Carrie-anne. 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