 Hello people, I am Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch, although am I? I call myself a traditional fourth generation witch but I might not be. I want to look at this, this also most likely applies to you as well. So here is my video on what is a traditional fourth generation witch. This video came about because the client of mine said to me what do you mean by being a fourth generation witch? What does that mean? I thought it just meant that my great grandmother who's the only person that we can remember in this generation as far back too was a witch and so was my grandmother and my mother and therefore I can say that I'm a fourth generation witch. However I think I've got a lot more generational witchcraft behind me and so I wanted to discuss how that was with me and whether this applies to you as well. My mother had many children, I'm one of 10 children which is thousands of them and in those 10 children they're mostly boys but there's two girls and what fascinated me the most is that my mother only taught these aspects of witchcraft to the girls. Why? I never asked her, I mean that she is long dead but if I called her down from spirit although I do tend to cry when I speak to my mother in spirit because I'm so happy to see her so I don't call her very often because it distresses both her and me. So I've never asked her why she only taught the girls and I suspect it's because this was a female craft, very much a female craft in her eyes. It would no more have occurred to my mother to teach her son's witchcraft than it would for her mother, my grandmother to teach her son's witchcraft. It's not something that you did, witchcraft is women's intuition and I think they believe witchcraft to be the ability which is a female heavy ability in their eyes to manipulate energy. So and I think that's the reason why they didn't teach their sons and I have ended up as this fourth generation witch. I mean of course I don't necessarily hold this view myself that it's only for the females but there was an incredibly strong female line only and this is shown by my mother teaching her female children only the secrets of the craft but she did it in a very in, she did it in an incredibly organic way you know she would teach me to tie my shoelaces and cast a circle she would teach me to you know when you move into a house you always blessed your house and this is how you did it showing me how to ward and so I learned these things without really realising it and that is one of the joys of it I mean it was part of my life you know so as I grew up with this I just presumed that that's what everybody learned and it was when I was in my 20s I think that I realised that this wasn't the norm it was just my family or the only family that I knew I'm sure there's other families plenty out there and I'll tell you the story of the grandmother's salt it's when I was about three I found my grandmother's pot and it was a big stoneware jar of stable salt that she used for cooking and I picked it up in my three-year-old way and carried it outside and started flinging the salt about all over the place because I enjoyed the feel of the salt you know running through my fingers and splattering on the leaves of the bushes it was most satisfactory to my three-year-old brain my grandmother takes one look at me from the kitchen and it runs out healthily down to the bottom of the garden Jenny Jenny what are you doing and I think oh no I'm in for it she's gonna absolutely tell me off healthily because I'm throwing salt all over the garden and she was like you can't possibly do that quick take some salt in your right hand take a pinch of salt take it now and throw it over your left shoulder and she forced me to do that three times because she says that salt can cool in the you know bad jujies around the place and you don't want the devil in your garden that's why throwing salt over your shoulder three times a superstition it may be to you was very much we're gonna keep the devil away for me it is only now that I am sort of grown up and more knowledgeable of the world that I realize that not everyone is like this however there is plenty of you out there who are who have these superstitions or you know family traditions and practices that you will have been shown by your parents in order to prevent bad stuff happening to you and this is witchcraft and more than that it's traditional witchcraft people have learnt their rituals and their craft through generations of other people showing them how I mean nowadays with the advent of social media one of the great things is that we can bring all these rituals together because each of them have different aspects in them which will help us all learning the craft because witchcraft is essentially just the manipulation of energy that's all it is you're changing energy as every single thing has energy in this world from a lighter for my candles here that has energy it's got lighter energy to a pen that's got pen energy we can manipulate these energy and change them and this is how we create the craft my traditional witchcraft although I learned it at my mother's knee is the knowledge that everything has energy and that you can change the energy however you want to the rituals that you practice are cultural so different cultures will have different ways of casting a circle for example you know if you look at the neolithic circles in the uk the stone circles that we've got these are all drawn in a completely different way to the circles that I will draw now casting a circle for a particular purpose the mesopotamians and the Aztecs the Minoans all were adept at casting circles as were and this is going to possibly surprise a few of you native americans the teepee in a circle is not by accident it is one of the strongest and you can say oh well there you go there we just built them like that no we didn't all our first houses are built circular and it's because we have a natural affinity to the circle because you can protect it it's an unbroken line there's no weak spots around it but you can trace all this back to some form of ritual and cultural witchcraft it's not you know it's not rocket science there is an element of it and people can say to me well you can't prove that no I can't but my intuition and my acknowledgement of the witchcraft that I practice tells me that this is so and you'd be a fool to deny its actual existence it's a bit like denying that there's something more than the physical world that we live in added to that you know I talk about traditional witchcraft but I don't really have a definition for this traditional witchcraft it's just witchcraft that I learned from my mother's knee which is the manipulation of energy as I keep saying so you all might practice traditional witchcraft but in your own way you can have traditional witchcraft the manipulation of energy in your own culture in your own style you can make up your own spells and it's still traditional witchcraft because witchcraft is witchcraft tradition or not and believe you me I have actually been studying this for a long time I'm quite clever and I know a lot about it you know I have made my own investigations and I spent quite a lot of time teaching people how to learn that for themselves because learning traditional witchcraft is not necessarily about reading books it's actually about practicing it and that's the most important the more practicing of witchcraft that you do the better at it you'll get it is a bit like teaching someone art or in a musical instrument they will paint their art in their own particular style they will play that musical instrument in their own fashion you will practice your witchcraft in your own style in your own culture in your own fashion and it will still be very much traditional I can facilitate that if you want to know go to patreon.com and join the coven that's basically a group learning facility for everyone so I do recommend it I'll have you really empowered after one session I promise but I'd be interested to hear your stories how you consider yourself a traditional witch do you practice witchcraft in a different way how do you interpret that in your culture I would love to know so please do leave me a comment below and otherwise don't forget to like and subscribe the subscribers enable me to continue making these videos and so thank you thank you so much you're great and I will see you in a week also depending on how busy I am while Stara is coming up I'm quite busy on Stara but let's hope so hopefully I'll see you next week