 Hello people! I'm Ginny Metherall and I'm a fourth generation witch and I'm here to talk to you today about all the witchcraft that you should do in August. So the month of August is a great month for prosperity and wealth. I thought it would be a great time to give you my make a mint money charm which I will show you at the end of this video so do stick around for that because you can use it in the workplace it's very discreet you don't need to do anything and it uses the most easy of ingredients. So firstly I thought we'd look at the dates in August. Now as you probably know the first of August is the date of Lammas or Lunasa and this is a celebration of the first grain harvest so you always make bread and you offered it up on your altar of worship. August was a very traditional time for games to begin so on your fields which would be cleared of all the grain and the harvest you could now hold your running and your jumping etc and your dancing and so many English traditions have come from this for example Morris dancing always happens in August all the country fairs in the UK you always see Morris dancers I quite like them myself I find them very jolly rather sweet but this is some sort of pagan fertility festival because they are worshipping the god of fertility the Highland Gates for example still go on today with tossing of cabers which is a sort of fertility symbol mixed in with you know being part of the games themselves the 8th of August has always been known as the feast of Venus however when the Christians turned up they obviously appropriated it and gave it to the birth of the Virgin Mary so the birth of Virgin Mary was supposed to be the sacrosanct you know sacred non-fertile thing as opposed to the feast of Venus which is very much free for all I rather enjoy the juxtaposition that the Catholic Church was imposing on their pagan fold but it makes me laugh really so the 8th of August is a very propitious day for love marriage and fidelity so should you wish to cast a love spell do have a look at my ethical love spell which I'll put a link to in the description below this day 8th of August time to make that spell there are plenty of other traditions that go on in the UK one of my favorites is the Burry Man in Scotland where they cover this man in burrs from the Burdock bush and then parade him around and he drinks whiskey as he goes through you know through the pubs and the streets etc and this brings well I should imagine quite a headache to the police but it is part of some sort of pagan traditional festival some sort of fertility festival now August is also traditionally the time associated with wicker man festivals there is really very very scant information that human sacrifices were performed by the Druids and their people in wicker man festivals I mean there's only one person and he was a bit biased Julius Caesar in fact it was he was tiny bit biased however there is information very scant again but there is information that wicker festivals were held and they would have offered up sacrifices of their goats and cattle and sheep not all of them obviously and then feasted upon them once they cooked them in this wicker cage I mean there are echoes of wicker man festivals in the UK now and on the 24th of August or thereabouts most years in West Whitten in Yorkshire they burn the bottle which is a straw man who they set alight so this has something in line with wicker so I don't suggest that you go around burning people in wicker cages that wouldn't be good or animals of that matter don't do that not a good thing to do and I've picked myself some corn stalks and it's with these that I'm going to make a corn dolly I'm not going to show you how to make a corn dolly because you can find plenty of how-to videos on YouTube for that but I think it's a really lovely thing to do in August because August is the season of the harvest the first harvest and it's something you can put on your altar if you're wickam in the village that I grew up in it was rather a thing for every field at their gate there was a corn dolly place there you're always allowed to pick them up and look at them and admire them because they were beautiful some of them but you always had to put them back and they were the offering you the green man of the fields for harvest just these fresh flowers that would make an offering to the gods of old so that's a rather beautiful corn dolly I shall hang it from my door and it will give me peace prosperity and luck for the next year there is one last thing we want to talk about which is of course your make your mint money charm and the make your mint money charm uses very very few ingredients so we have some oats uses mint which I picked from my garden this is the mint here which is rather beautiful and I chose one with flowers on the tops because I like it and it also uses some sort of alcohol now I am currently going to use some vodka because this is what I've got but you could use surgical spirit gin an alcohol spirit that is at least 40 because otherwise it will just go off take your bowl take your mint leaves pull a few off maybe the flowers cut your mint leaves small and I'm going to use about this is about teaspoon and then I want you to take probably half a tea tablespoon and put it in a bowl add your mint leaves and then carefully pour on your spirits okay I am using vodka but you can use whatever spirit that you've got which is at least 40 percent and pour in about two tablespoons carefully stir let the potion now sit for an hour the end of the hour when you take your wand mine is currently a rock at the moment and I want you to stir the air around the outside and say please make me a mint money charm strain it and I'm going to put it in this rather beautiful little bottle which is a stopper bottle as you can see with a stopper lid on it I'm going to strain it into there so this is my make a mint money charm the way to use this is whenever you are about to perform some sort of financial business dealing or you're going to work or you want a job interview take or anything to do with money take a dropper put it onto your palm rub your palms together now it's alcohol so it might sting a bit but it also get rid of any covid bugs which is quite nice and then your hands contain the charm to make you some money it's a really useful little spell you can put this now keep it in your drawer at work and so you can use it whenever you've got a big deal coming up or something happening or when you're going to the bank and putting some money in it's very useful for holding cash in your hands because it will make more than that because it will make a mint money charm I will put the link the ethical love spell down in the description below so do click on that if you want to do that love spell because remember the 8th of August the feast of Venus and the birth of the Virgin Mary it's the day to do that one otherwise don't forget to give me a like and a subscribe and I will see you in my next video