12 Week Online Course On British Folk Magic

Date & Location:

Every Tuesday evening via Zoom starting on Tuesday 21st July 2026 for 12 weeks 7.30pm-9.30pm – A zoom link will be sent be sent to you closer to the time via email.

About the event:

You’ll join from home with a weekly two hour evening Zoom session, and everything is designed to help you bring this work into your everyday life, not just learn it and leave it sitting in a notebook you’ll look at twice a year.

We start with the foundations and we build from there, so by the end of twelve weeks you’re working with confidence and you understand what you’re doing and why it matters. You’ll be getting into spellcraft, herbs, protection, spirit and land based work, the history of it, the reasoning behind it, the old beliefs and where they came from. We’re talking real British Folk Magic here, the kind your ancestors would have actually recognised. And this course is for everyone, beginners and those already on the path.

Each session has time built in for questions because there are always questions, and you’ll get resources and worksheets to keep and come back to whenever you need them. There’s also a private Facebook group for support, open from a week before we begin and staying open for three months after the course ends. And yes, you’ll get a certificate at the end.

Here’s what we’ll cover across the twelve weeks:

Week 1

— What makes British Folk Magic its own thing, where it came from, and the differences between British Folk Magic vs Traditional Witchcraft vs Wicca.
— The Cunning Folk, the Wise Women and Men, the charmers and village workers who kept all of this alive, and why we still do.
— The witch trials and the history of persecution, and what all of it tells us about how this magic was really lived and practised.
— The church and British folk magic, and the long complicated relationship between the two that most people completely misunderstand.
— How folk magic adapted and survived through the industrial age and kept going.

Week 2

— What magic actually is, how it works, and why it works the way it does in British Folk Magic.
— The three laws of magic and what they look like when you’re actually working with magic.
— Correspondences in a traditional context, not the newer ones you see in books these days.
— Whether you work with the elements or not, and why that’s a genuine choice worth making consciously.

Week 3

— The personal choice of working deities or not.
— Living as a witch in ordinary life, not just when you’ve got candles lit and an hour to spare.
— Birth, death, coming of age and the elder years, rites of passage as British folk magic observes them.

Week 4

— The British calendar and the land it belongs to, seasonal work that’s rooted here not imported from somewhere else. And why the wheel of the year is a modern invention and not ancient like everyone thinks it is.
— The spirit of a place, how to recognise it, how to approach it.
— Weather watching, natural omens, animal messengers and bird lore and how the old workers read the world around them, and also how they used them for divination.
— Moonlight work in folk tradition, which is a very different thing to Wiccan moon magic.

Week 5

— Your tools, what they’re actually for, how they’re used, and why we don’t use that much.
— Building a proper working grimoire and keeping records that are actually useful to you.
— Spellcraft from the ground up, planning it, working it, recording it and understanding the why, what and when.
— Why spells fail and what you do about it when they do.

Week 6

— Hearth, home, and the land at your door, what sacred space actually means to us.
— Building a magical home the old way, the methods that have been keeping British households protected and thriving for centuries.
— Kitchen magic and hearth work, because in Britain the fire and the food have always been where most of the real magic happened.
— Thresholds, crossroads, and liminal spaces and why they matter so much in this tradition.

Week 7

— Getting out into the hedgerows, foraging in the UK, knowing what you’re looking at, and knowing what to do with it once you’ve got it home.
— The herbs your folk would have known by heart and how they were used in real working practice.
— Tree lore specific to the British landscape, not generic Northern European tree lists.
— Stone lore, flints, holey stones, and the way natural stones have been worked in Britain for a very long time.
— Water magic, wells, rivers, rain, and the folk practices that grew up around them.

Week 8

— Cleansing, blessing and how to tell when something needs doing again.
— Healing, illness, and the folk magic of remedy and recovery.
— Drawing, uncrossing, and reversing work.
— Protection that holds, and understanding the difference between something that’s working and something that’s just sitting there looking pretty.
— Protecting against ill wishing, curses, hexes of bad health etc

Week 9

— Historical charms and spells, how to read them, how to understand them, and how to make them work for your life now.
— Charms, talismans, and amulets, the differences and why they are used.
— Coin magic and the traditional working uses of silver and copper.
— Nail, needle, and pin magic and the long history of it in ordinary British households.
— Poppets, the real history behind them and how to make and use them.

Week 10

— Candle work, the old fashioned way, not purely being burned for Instagram.
— Witch bottles and wards you can create yourself.
— Sigils, seals, and the traditional marking and writing methods used in British folk practice.
— Knot magic and cord work, old as the hills and still one of the most reliable methods going.

Week 11

— Reading smoke, fire, and flame the way folk practitioners always have.
— Wax reading and scrying in the British tradition.
— Bone and stone casting rooted in British cunning craft.
— Sleep magic, dream work, and the folk traditions that grew up around what happens at night.

Week 12

— Love work, and a very honest conversation about where people go wrong with it and more importantly, why it’s not such a good idea.
— Poison lore, the history of it, the practice of it, and how to approach it with respect and safety.
— Binding, hexing, and cursing, because British Folk Magic has always worked both sides and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
— Blood magic, approached with respect and safely, and with full understanding of what you’re doing and why.

You’ll also receive:

• A solid reading list based on actual, reliable sources
• Downloadable resources and worksheets
• A printable certificate at the end
• A private Facebook group for support before, during and after the course

This isn’t about collecting titles or calling yourself something. It’s about learning the work, doing it properly, and building a practice that actually stands on its own. If you’re ready to stop dabbling and start practising British Folk Magic the way it’s meant to be worked, you’ll fit right in.

Your Investment:

£250 per person (Installments available via Klarna).

Location:

Every Tuesday evening via Zoom starting on Tuesday 21st July 2026 for 12 weeks 7.30pm-9.30pm – A zoom link will be sent be sent to you closer to the time via email.

What others say:

Please read our testimonials here > https://www.mamasmagicandmojo.co.uk/testimonials/

Background:

Sally (aka Mama Sal) is a British folk witch, rootworker and New Orleans Voodoo Mama based in Lancashire with Creole heritage, just around the corner from the famous Pendle Hill which was the site of the Lancashire Witch Trials. She is a bare foot in the grass, foraging, natural living, homesteading, nature loving kinda gal, born and raised as a British folk witch (Grandmother and Mother) and Creole rootworker (Grandfather) 47 years ago and has had the honour and pleasure of writing for, being interviewed for or working with some amazing companies, brands and media over the years such as The BBC, The Daily Mail, Fox News, USA Today, Reuters, The Walt Disney Corporation, Spirit & Destiny Magazine, Fate & Fortune Magazine and many, many more. Sally has been teaching all things magical since 1995 and has taught, created, spoken at and run over 750 workshops and courses.

Refunds & Other Important Information:

Refunds: We do not offer refunds if you cancel under any circumstances unless we, ourselves, cancel or reschedule the event (this is correct by law, please see https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/event-tickets/getting-a-refund-on-an-event-ticket/). 

Force Majeure: Due to events beyond our reasonable control, individual course weeks may occasionally need to be moved, postponed, or cancelled. Where this happens, the affected week will be rescheduled and added to the end of the course where possible.