Wicca Kitchen Witchery

Wicca Kitchen Witchery A Beginners Guide to Magical Cooking, With Simple Spells and Recipes
Imagine, if you will, an old-fashioned rural cottage in the age before
electricity. Candles light the cozy main room, where a woman tends a boiling
cauldron over an open fire in the hearth. Jars of flour, sugar and other dry
goods line the rustic wooden shelves above an oak-topped table, upon which
several clay bowls filled with herbs are lined up to be ceremoniously emptied
into the cauldron.
The brew may be a soup, a stew, a healing medicine, or a potion designed to
bring about a specific magical outcome. It may even be some combination of
these possibilities. After all, since all food originates within the sacred bounty
of Mother Earth, anything that’s edible has inherent magical potential, and
the woman at the hearth knows this well.
In myths and folklore from virtually every culture around the world, food has
been associated with magic, and some of these ancient traditions have
survived into the 21st century. Probably the most well-known example is the
blowing out of candles on a birthday cake.
The first such cakes were actually baked as offerings to Artemis, the Greek
goddess of the Moon. They were moon-shaped and lit with candles in order
to make them “shine” as the Moon does. Eventually, the cakes came to be
used to celebrate birthdays, and it was an 18th century Germanic custom to
number the candles on the cake according to the age of the celebrant, with an
extra candle added in hopes that they would live another year.