Witchcraft: Topic Ideas for Your Book of Shadows/Grimoire
Please remember that these are just a small number of ideas! This isn't an end-all-be-all. Your magical journals should be personal to you and you alone. Additionally, your book of shadows/grimoire should always grow and change as you do. If you no longer resonate with something or find new information, add, take away, or archive pages! There is absolutely no shame in doing so. Most importantly, have fun!
These are listed in alphabetical order for your convenience.
Affirmations
Alchemy*
Altars
Ancestors*
Angels*
Animals (and their connection to you)
Anointing/Consecrating/Charging
Art magic
Astral projection*
Auras*
Banishing
Baneful magic*
Bath rituals
Besoms
Binding*
Birth chart (your own)
Blessings
Books (texts you can use for reference)
Candle magic
Celestial bodies (planets, the sun, etc.)
Chaos magic*
Charms, amulets, and talismans
Charm bags
Circle casting
Cleansing
Closed practices
Color magic
Constellations
Common herbs (used in the craft)
Correspondences
Crystals
Crystal grids
Daily thoughts
Days of the week (correspondences)
Deities*
Demonolatry*
Devotional practice*
Discernment
Divination (methods)
Dragons*
Dreams
Dream interpretation
Dream work
Elements (the four/five)
Elixirs
Energy work
Esbats (if Wiccan)
Essential oils
Fae*
Familiars*
Foraging calendar (for herbs)
Garden magic
Glamour magic
Green magic (herbs, plants, trees, etc.)
Grounding
Healing magic
Hearth magic
Herbalism
Herbology
Hex/curse breaking
Historical spells
Historical witches
History of witchcraft
Incense
Intention
Intention setting
Intuition
Journal entries
Kitchen magic
Knot magic
Local plants
Local myths, cryptids, or legends
Low cost magic
Low energy magic
Lunar cycle (the)
Lunar phases
Magical philosophy
Magical practices around the world
Magical technique
Magical terminology
Magical theory
Maps (of areas with interesting energy)
Meditation
Moons of the year
Mythology
Natural remedies
Obscure tools or tools you have invented
Past life exploration*
Pentacle (the)
Personal correspondence charts
Petition magic
Planetary hours
Plant identification
Poisons
Prayers
Protection magic
Recipes
Religion
Rituals
Sabbats (the)
Sachets
Sacred texts
Salts
Sea/ocean magic
Seasons (the four)
Seven psychic senses (the)
Shadow work*
Sigils
Spells (types, how to cast, ethics, etc.)
Spirits*
Spirituality
Spirit work*
Storm magic
Superstitions
Sustainable/eco-friendly lifestyle tips
Symbols
Symbol/image magic
Tarot spreads
Teas
Tech magic
Times of day (correspondences)
Tools (of the craft)
Traditional magic
Types of moons (dark moon, super moon, etc.)
Types of witches/paths of witches
Wand making
Warding
Waters (how to make, correspondences)
Weather (correspondences)
Words of power
Wheel of the year
Witch bottles
Witch's alphabet
Witch's ladder
Witchy DIY
Your magical rules
Your magical morals/ethics/values
Your reactions (to correspondences, workings, etc.)
Zodiac signs
*I believe these are more inclined for an intermediate/advanced skill level. This is because a good grasp on more basic skills (sensing energy, protection, vetting, etc.) is required to perform these practices safely and effectively with a higher rate of success.
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So I’ve been doing lots of D&D world-building lately and I’ve kind of been putting together lists of words to help inspire new fantasy place names. I figured I’d share. These are helpful for naming towns, regions, landforms, roads, shops, and they’re also probably useful for coming up with surnames. This is LONG. There’s plenty more under the cut including a huge list of “fantasy sounding” word-parts. Enjoy!
Towns & Kingdoms
town, borough, city, hamlet, parish, township, village, villa, domain
kingdom, empire, nation, country, county, city-state, state, province, dominion
Town Name End Words (English flavored)
-ton, -ston, -caster, -dale, -den, -field, -gate, -glen, -ham, -holm, -hurst, -bar, -boro, -by, -cross, -kirk, -meade, -moore, -ville, -wich, -bee, -burg, -cester, -don, -lea, -mer, -rose, -wall, -worth, -berg, -burgh, -chase, -ly, -lin, -mor, -mere, -pool. -port, -stead, -stow, -strath, -side, -way, -berry, -bury, -chester, -haven, -mar, -mont, -ton, -wick, -meet, -heim, -hold, -hall, -point
Buildings & Places
castle, fort, palace, fortress, garrison, lodge, estate, hold, stronghold, tower, watchtower, palace, spire, citadel, bastion, court, manor, house
altar, chapel, abbey, shrine, temple, monastery, cathedral, sanctum, crypt, catacomb, tomb
orchard, arbor, vineyard, farm, farmstead, shire, garden, ranch
plaza, district, quarter, market, courtyard, inn, stables, tavern, blacksmith, forge, mine, mill, quarry, gallows, apothecary, college, bakery, clothier, library, guild house, bath house, pleasure house, brothel, jail, prison, dungeon, cellar, basement, attic, sewer, cistern
lookout, post, tradepost, camp, outpost, hovel, hideaway, lair, nook, watch, roost, respite, retreat, hostel, holdout, redoubt, perch, refuge, haven, alcove, haunt, knell, enclave, station, caravan, exchange, conclave
port, bridge, ferry, harbor, landing, jetty, wharf, berth, footbridge, dam, beacon, lighthouse, marina, dockyard, shipyard
road, street, way, row, lane, trail, corner, crossing, gate, junction, waygate, end, wall, crossroads, barrier, bulwark, blockade, pavilion, avenue, promenade, alley, fork, route
Time & Direction
North, South, East, West, up, down, side, rise, fall, over, under
Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, solstice, equanox, vernal, ever, never
dusk, dawn, dawnrise, morning, night, nightfall, evening, sundown, sunbreak, sunset
lunar, solar, sun, moon, star, eclipse
Geographical Terms
Cave, cavern, cenote, precipice, crevasse, crater, maar, chasm, ravine, trench, rift, pit
Cliff, bluff, crag, scarp, outcrop, stack, tor, falls, run, eyrie, aerie
Hill, mountain, volcano, knoll, hillock, downs, barrow, plateau, mesa, butte, pike, peak, mount, summit, horn, knob, pass, ridge, terrace, gap, point, rise, rim, range, view, vista, canyon, hogback, ledge, stair, descent
Valley, gulch, gully, vale, dale, dell, glen, hollow, grotto, gorge, bottoms, basin, knoll, combe
Meadow, grassland, field, pasture, steppe, veld, sward, lea, mead, fell, moor, moorland, heath, croft, paddock, boondock, prairie, acre, strath, heights, mount, belt
Woodlands, woods, forest, bush, bower, arbor, grove, weald, timberland, thicket, bosk, copse, coppice, underbrush, hinterland, park, jungle, rainforest, wilds, frontier, outskirts
Desert, dunes, playa, arroyo, chaparral, karst, salt flats, salt pan, oasis, spring, seep, tar pit, hot springs, fissure, steam vent, geyser, waste, wasteland, badland, brushland, dustbowl, scrubland
Ocean, sea, lake, pond, spring, tarn, mere, sluice, pool, coast, gulf, bay
Lagoon, cay, key, reef, atoll, shoal, tideland, tide flat, swale, cove, sandspit, strand, beach
Snowdrift, snowbank, permafrost, floe, hoar, rime, tundra, fjord, glacier, iceberg
River, stream, creek, brook, tributary, watersmeet, headwater, ford, levee, delta, estuary, firth, strait, narrows, channel, eddy, inlet, rapids, mouth, falls
Wetland, marsh, bog, fen, moor, bayou, glade, swamp, banks, span, wash, march, shallows, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, everglade, slough, lowland, sump, reach
Island, isle, peninsula, isthmus, bight, headland, promontory, cape, pointe, cape
More under the cut including: Color words, Animal/Monster related words, Rocks/Metals/Gems list, Foliage, People groups/types, Weather/Environment/ Elemental words, Man-made Items, Body Parts, Mechanical sounding words, a huge list of both pleasant and unpleasant Atmospheric Descriptors, and a huge list of Fantasy Word-parts.
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[Script is the summary of the proposed long-time nuclear waste warning messages from the Sandia report, aimed at protecting humanity from the threat of nuclear waste for at least 10,000 years, even after civilization collapse]
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