How People Protected Against Witchcraft║ Apotropaic (Witch) Marks in Britain - Witch History
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Today we're touching on Apotropaic marks in Britain, known as Witch marks these carved symbols and designs were believed to protect against both witchcraft and the witches who cast it. Witch marks can be found all around the world, but in this video, I'm just focussing on those in the British Isles.
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There are lots of documented locations for witch marks, you can find some here:
www.vincentreed.com/witches-m...
Other references for additional information can be found in the links below:
historicengland.org.uk/whats-...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/disc...
www.mysticmasque.com/history-... - Thank you to this website for being the source of the Pentacle image used in this video.
www.historytoday.com/history-...
theartssociety.org/arts-news-...
A good book on this topic and other aspects of house protection is: Magical House Protection by Brian Hoggard
Chapters:
00:00: Introduction
00:44: History
04:37: What are they?
05:43: Where they are Found
07:06: What do they Look Like?
07:40: Pentagrams
08:30: Daisy Wheels
09:41: Overlapping Circles
10:01: Concentric Circles
10:44: Burn Marks
13:06: Witch Webs
13:34: Marian Marks
14:43: Christograms
15:07: Examples
18:24: Conclusion
19:25: Bloopers
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Hi Hearth. Yes, please, please do more videos of witch history and historical events. These kind of videos are really interesting and I would like to know more.
me too!!
I discovered your channel only a few days or weeks ago and I'm binging through all your videos. I know you've been practicing for over 15 years, so of course you're gonna have a lot of experience, but DAMN, I'm repeatedly SO impressed by your infinite amount of knowledge! 🖤 Especially in the livestreams where you just answer dozens of questions over 4 or 5 hours without a break I am always floored by how much you know without having to look it up again first... I am SO incredibly happy I found your channel, I can't even tell you how much I'm learning here. You are so well-spoken and explain every single topic in such a detailed but easy to understand way.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, Hearth! 🙏 You are amazing and I just hope and aspire to know as much about witchcraft as you one day. ✨ You really inspire me and gave me new perspectives about the craft as well as many tools to further develop my skills. Thank you so much for that!
Hope you are well and have an amazing day whenever you read this! 🖤🤗
I appreciate the seriousness with which you treat these topics.
The spiral staircase at Colchester Castle in Essex (built circa 1076 CE on the older platform and basement of a Roman Temple from circa 49-60 CE) has absolutely loads of witchmarks. Probably something to do with the fact that Matthew Hopkins - the self proclaimed Witchfinder General - kept and interrogated many of his alleged Witches in the Castle's Gaol.
Hi Wild Witch, will look out for them if I get a chance to visit. If you're in Maldon at any time a hexafoil was discovered recently in the panelling of the Thomas Plume library.
If anyone is interested, there is an old 1968 movie called witchfinder general all about Matthew Hopkins.
If you are doing a renovation and find a dead cat in the wall, put it back. It's there to protect the home.
I’d prefer to give the cat a proper burial myself.
I’d puke on myself and then burn my house down
it could very well have been protective for the family that put it there, but i feel like it's entirely reasonable for later residents to not want a dead animal in their house, regardless of why it's there.
Ye thats Ancient Black Cat Mojo
oh wow I just LOVE that you made a video about this! I was really hoping you explained these one day! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you Hearth this was an AMAZING vid!!! 💜🕯️💜
This was really interesting. Thanks so much for posting this info.
Yes please! Definitely do more videos like this. Your videos are very informational. 💖
Another wonderful nugget of magical knowledge! Thank you for all you do.
Would absolutely love more witch history! I lobe your style. how you get references. Love your videos!
Your explanations are so helpful and full of clarity. I use a lot of your videos in my normal routine to get some witch education in. Thank you so much! 💜
I'm so impressed by the level of study and effort you put in your videos. You really do your homework to provide such an accurate content. I love it! Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've been following your channel for a few years now and I am greatful to you for your Indepth explaination of each subject. I love this history of witchmarks thank you.
There's not a lot of this history in Australia so having you show us these sites is amazing. Thank you so very much.🙏
Brightest Blessings from Queensland Australia 🙏❤️✨🌻🐨
Beautiful history and very well explained, thanks for this video...have a good day Hearth, see you next time 🙂
So interesting ! I've never seen this subject on youtube before, love it
This was rad. Thanks, Hearth!
I LOVE the end bit. It's interesting yet kinda fun to see behind the scenes Hearth. Looks like this was a struggle, but it turned out great dear. Good job. Very interesting vid. From someone in the USA with English heritage, I love videos like this. Thank you
Such a great video!!!!! I just can't across your channel. You popped up on my feed, I love the knowledge you share. Thank you for sharing, I made sure to subscribe, can't wait for your next video.
I love the discussion of how witchcraft in the early modern era differed from today.
Love it! History of ordinary life is so fascinating! Thank you ❤️
Norton Priory in Runcorn has witch marks and it’s a lovely place to visit. Plus the walled gardens are incredible :)
Another excellent video! Thanks!
We have similar marks here in Sweden too, but I haven't seen any myself as I can recall.
This is really interesting! I would love to watch more videos about witch history!
❤ love all of your content. This was a great video! Interesting place to see a witches mark…The mark with the P is used in the robes and sometimes the cloth that covers the chalice for communion of the Episcopal church.
Merry meet, love the info, love the persona, digging the rig out. Keep doing what yer doing, yer leaving a legacy sister. Always know your ancestors love you and are proud of you. Lots of love from a faery druid x
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So 1 keep the videos coming! 2 you're lipstick, earrings, and nail color matches you so well.. stunning! 3 thank you for all your hard work in making these videos 🖤
Brightest of Blessings always lovely
I loved this! Thank you!
Very informative video. Thank you, Hearth. 😁
Got a lot of info I never knew ty for the content
In the US, you'll see many of these symbols in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art.
Absolutely, I would love to learn more about witch history. Thank you ❤️🥰
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Such an interesting video… I didn’t know about witch marks! Yes! It would be nice to have more videos on witchcraft history! Thanks! 😊
Love the videos on the History of Witchcraft . Would definitely love to see more !! Thank you Hearth, fascinating topic and so well done. ✨
I just love your videos!
Hi Hearth. Really enjoying (and largely agreeing) with your content and discussions.
The Christogram is a combination of the Greek chi (x) and rho (p) letters, the first two letters of "christ." It's still used in Catholic priest vestments, altar cloths, and other church tools and decor.
Yes, please more. I love your videos.
I really enjoyed this!
Thx Hearth! I love your channel and have learned a lot from you. You are so knowledgeable and generous with the info and experiences you share. I am so grateful to you!❤️
About the Christogram symbol you showed, I didn't know it was referred to as that, very cool! that letter is not a P it is actually a capital Greek letter, 'ro', looks like Ρ and lower case is ρ. and the x through the symbol is capital Greek Letter X, ´chi', lower case is χ. They represent the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ, Χρήστος.
This is a fascinating subject. Next time I visit the UK I will keep an eye out for them in older buildings. Thanks for sharing.
carry on with the contents its amazing
I really enjoyed this video! I would love more witchcraft history videos 🖤 I wonder if these marks made their way over to the US. I'm gonna start looking for them. So interesting!
Yes, yes, yes more videos like this please!
I would love more on the history. Thank you
Definitely do more of these witchcraft( and related ) history... interesting!
Here ( Kentucky), there are " hex blankets" on some barns. Despite the name, they're painted wood panels.
Would the" hex blankets" be similar to the Swiss German Hexe Symbols ?
Wow, so interesting. I will Look Up the Traditions in Germany. You are a magic well of knowledge. And your Cut Outs are Always wonderful. 🤩
Have you ever heard of witch windows? They are windows built diagonally on the side of a house, and they mostly were only built in Vermont, USA. Supposedly they were built diagonally because it was believed a witch could not fly diagonally and enter the home. That’s about all the information I know, but it would be interesting to hear your take on them. I know you primarily research witchcraft history in the British Isles and not America, but it’s a strange and unique witchcraft prevention that only takes place in a small area, and I thought that was very interesting, maybe there’s other unique ways people have prevented witchcraft around the world and you could do a video on that!
If you haven't already, have a look at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire. We had a great day rootling round for them there, one of the guides is studying and recording them (and there are loads). (It's also the place where everyone's favourite witch-fetishist King James The Bonkers dubbed a side of beef Sir Loin) The White Lion at Barthomley also has a mummified rat in the wall (can be seen through a perspex panel) but whether that's a deliberate placement or just an unfortunate rat, I'm not sure.
Yes more videos like this on the historical witch practices and folk magic.
respect hearth ..soo knowledgable thank you.
Thank you for this video. I'm definitely going to go and have a look for some witch marks. Something fun for 2023
Sending light and love 💚
Blessed be 🌛⭐🌜
I have not heard of them. I would love it if you did more videos on this subject,.
Great video, would love to see more about the history of witches. I watched a documentary on UA-cam about the Pendleton trials, interesting stuff.
Now that i saw this video huh that explains the mark in my basement must have been from a previous family who live here meh imma cover it up cause honestly its messing with my practice.
i love so much history and willing to learn more about it and as a witch witchcraft history drive me crazy please do more videos about witchy history
Here in the U.S., the "daisy wheel" (aka rosette, among other names) is a very common sight in Amish ("Pennsylvania Dutch") areas, either as a standalone design or part of a more complete "hex wheel" design on a barn, home, or other building. Also, in parts of the southern US, it's common to see the ceilings of covered porches -- and sometimes doors, door frames, window frames, or other entrance/exit points into homes painted a particular shade of blue called "Haint Blue," with "haint" being an old Gullah word for "ghost" or "spirit" (thus the link to modern English "haunt"). Although not specifically a witch deterrent, the idea was either that the color mimicked the sky, so ghosts & other malevolent spirits would simply pass through it & keep going away from the home, or that it was close to the color of water, which such spirits could not cross and therefore could not enter the home. I'm wondering if there's anything similar to that in the UK or on mainland Europe...?
Hello Hearth, firstly I truly enjoy all of your videos and the information you provide. I believe a dear friend of mine is under several different spells, love spells and binding spells. Do you have any advice on breaking these types of spells
Yes, yes!! Love this history!
Thank you for this great video, I wasn't even aware of the great variation in witch marks. Please make more videos with this content. BTW, are there certain "continental" witch marks that weren't used in the UK? For example, In my home country Germany, hexagrams were used to protect the brewing of beer, is this also common in Britain?
Lol, thank you. I'm from Germany too. Didn't know about the Hexagons, but i guess extra beer protections make sense :D
Thanks for sharing. At 17:57 and a sec before that I can see 3 faces, especially 2 in the woodwork unless I'm imagining them.. But I see them.. Love your channel..
I really enjoyed this
Yes, please do more.
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We have a few here in the middle of the US though they are particularly rare. Had a barn on the family property that was built probably around the turn of the century. The house was built in 1912 but we don’t know if the barn was older or not though it fell into ruin first. Found witch marks in the wood after it fell to the ground. I know the barn was not around in the 17th century because the area wouldn’t be settled till the early 19th century but it was an intriguing find
I would love to hear more like this👌🙂
yes please i found this witchcraft history very interesting, Thank you.
Dunno if someone has mentioned this one already, but an interesting place to find witch marks and where I saw them for the first time was in Culross Palace. This is a small town in Scotland, and it's a filming location of Outlander. Well worth a visit. Really charming wee town, and the inside of the palace is really well preserved. It has really spooky vibes too, no wonder why they used witch marks, I bet they had a few spirit interactions back in the day.
Ty for covering all those Witch/Hex Miarks esp pentagrans n flowrers they are fairly common in Usa/Canada too.
Thank you so much for your videos! I love your content 🥰🥰🥰 one question, could the concentric circles be the probable origin of the witch's knot? Because they are quite similar... Greetings from Chile! 🤗🤗🤗
You’ll find a lot of these symbols, especially on barns in the old Dutch areas in Pennsylvania here in the US. Also in the older settlement town in the New England area.
Hi this is very interesting, what I found intriguing was that you had 12 takes on filming the part on the burn marks. Only because they are for protection against witches? So was that the power of that working creating obstacles for you in completing the recording? Also I'm curious if there was a particular prayer, affirmation incantation used when creating the burn marks? It's amazing how magic works 😊. Yes their markings were also a craft 😉
I train in a barn in St Albans and their is a Witch stone near the doorway but inside of the Barn, not outside. It has all sorts of marks in the stone.
Given the history that the British Isles share with Norse invaders like Vikingers, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that many of these "Christian" markings are remnants of runes commonly found from the Viking era, like the Elder Futhark. As such, the Christogram (X & P symbol) may be a modification of the runic symbols for Wunjo (P) and Gebo (X), which roughly means "gift of joy".
In a time where people are living in constant fear that their neighbors and loved ones may be a "malevolent witch" or be accused and tortured as one, is it really such a stretch that someone might be leaving such a token of goodwill as a piece-of-mind for the members of that household? And, perhaps through a historic game of broken telephone the symbol went from "gift of joy" to "love of God" and then a symbol of Christ. Food for thought at least.
I was staying in a village in Cornwall. l found scratch marks on dry stone wall around an old grave yard of the charch l just had a feeling that they maybe whitch marks. Thank you, for your video. l will definitely be looking out for more marks now 😊
very cool!
Really interesting. I've been meaning to go and visit the witch marks at Creswell crags, as well as the cave art . Apparently there is a cavern, that locals must have been terrified of. 😨
Hi Hearth, I love these historical videos could you maybe make a video about how/if these historical practices can be incorporated into modern day craft. Also unrelated to the video topic but that is such a beautiful lipstick could you share what it is.
The lipstick is Carnivorous by MAC, one of their retro matte liquid lipsticks :)
Wow this is such an interesting topic that somehow being in thr magickal community I haven't really delved into. I especially love thr daisy wheel very pretty 😍
Would love to hear you talk about the Pendle Witch trials
I would love more content on the history of witchcraft.
Your bloopers crack me up 😂😂😂
Would LOVE to know more about Witch bottles!
Cresswell Crags in Derbyshire is meant to have one of the largest collection of witch marks. I'm sure I visited that cave several times as a child but no one noticed the marks until 2019.
Those earrings are wicked awesome 🙂
Hearth, This also is a Swiss German Hexecraft sigil
( Daisy wheel)
The Mary mark ( when it's flipped over to create a M) also may be connected with Mary Magdalene as well ( you'll see it on the Ace of Chalices tarot card)
People afraid of witchcraft practicing witchcraft. I am a witch and also protect myself from other witches. I use my own sigil but these are fascinating
Thank you.
The burn marks being close to hearths is interesting to me. On the one hand, there's the view that the witches might come down the chimney.
On the other hand, I wonder if maybe it could also be a protection against fire, simply added into the other protective marks? After all, if you burn the wood already, what's the likelihood that it will burn again? Sort of a "lightning never striking twice" kind of thing.
I don't know, just struck me as a thought.
It's so interesting and funny also how people who feared witchcraft so deeply and fiercely were practicing/performing levels of "witchcraft" themselves by creating these witch marks lol
So very interesting thank you. Is there a whole house and garden invisibility spell so noise can be not noticed. Like if people live near a railway they get so used to it you don’t hear it anymore.
I remember seeing that p with the x over it in the cathedral where I grew up and I asked a guy what it meant and he said it was for protection but I didn't realize that it was probably a witch mark. Interesting!
Hey Hearth, could you do a video on animal passings? Can we work with their spirits?
Hello Hearth,
I was wondering if anyone has taken a look into the equation E=mc2=hv ?
It is the conflation of the two equations equating Energy to mass and frequency.
We work with energy constantly. We channel it through mass, and we do it at specific frequencies.
When my research brought me to these two equations, it seemed quite significant. Here is a mathematical explanation of what witches do constantly.
Since you are probably the witch I respect the most, I am interested in hearing what you think about it.
You quickly mentioned a think about a shoe outline I know here in the states(mainly New England where I live) we have found shoes in the walls of old buildings(colonial times) and I forget the whole story but basically it was a way to protect the house from the devil and I think witchcraft.
In most parts of Africa witches make marks on people’s bodies to attack them. So other evil ones know what they have to do to this person when they meet them. Your video is very interesting to me as I’m just realizing that witch marks could be done on buildings n used positively. Thank you for your immense knowledge you give out freely ❤
The snowflake symbol with the “P” at the top is Saint Peter’s cross. Also, many of these symbols are found in homes dating back to the 1700s and 1800s in the USA. Early European immigrants brought this ideology to the US.
I once saw a Anka made out of iron horse shoe nails. With the w W Mark's in the nails.