 Hello people! My name is Ginny Meswell and I am a fourth generation witch although I might be a fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, twentieth generation witch but nobody in my family can remember beyond my great grandmother. I practice traditional witchcraft or the old ways as they are known and this is taught to people by my mother, my family, my friends, my coven who are very good. So I study and practice traditional witchcraft or the old ways and so today's video I want to look at that archetypal piece of witch's equipment, the cauldron. Now the reason why I want to do this video is because I've just ordered a cauldron online which turned up this morning. Now I haven't unpacked it yet so I thought we'd do a little bit of unboxing, have a look at what we're going to do with the cauldron, maybe do a spell, give you a little history behind it and tell you what you would do with your cauldron, maybe give you some ideas and we'll discuss the purpose of a cauldron as part of a witch's tools and craft. Now the reason I bought a new cauldron apart from the fact that I never buy anything new for myself is that I have always used my old copper pot which is a natural metal very good in witchcraft however I also use my copper pot as part of cooking and it is sometimes quite generally important to keep your witchy tools separate from your daily use tools. Now the reason is that if I was to create say a love spell in my pot and my copper pot and then go on to cook some strawberry jam the strawberry jam might pick up the remnants of the love spell that's in the pot, the energy from it unless I have properly cleansed it and I don't mean cleaning I mean cleanse the energy of the pot and my spells are particularly harmless in that way I do not ever use my spells to force someone to do something to change their viewpoint I help people come to understand where they want to be and how to get there without forcing other people to change to their tune. So my spells are very unharmful however that is my path and your witchcraft and your path might be slightly different you might be a bit more forceful in your witchcraft and therefore it's really important that you separate your witch's craft tools from your daily use tools and don't mix the two. So just before we get to the unboxing I wanted to tell you about how I chose this vessel I didn't want the traditional cauldron with the tripod legs I needed it to sit on a portable gas fire or a portable stove so that I can you know cook things I also wanted something that I could set down directly on an outdoor fire or hang from a tripod over an outdoor fire so it can be used in lots of different ways it was also important for me to choose a vessel that was made from natural materials now this is important because natural materials and by which I mean wood iron earthenware stone natural materials take on something that a lot of traditional witches call sprowl I'll spell that word for you sprowl I won't spell that word for you I'll say that word for you sprowl sprowl is your earth magic your power your command of energy and everything has a bit of sprout so the earth has sprout in bucket loads animals will have sprout trees nymphs they they all have sprout and when you use something made of a natural substance such as wood or iron or earthenware you are taking that sprout that natural magic that is inherent in that equipment and adding that into your mix of spells which means it's just like a buttery boost of power right let's get to the unboxing I'm so excited I bought it off the internet from a company that doesn't need any more advertising than it already has so I've got a knife let's have a go so excited I never buy anything new for myself especially with regards to being a witch only because I tend to find things in nature and I'm a naturally as tight fisted as the tongue and don't like spending stuff on me so we've got some plastic another box it's not huge but that's just the size I want it because you know potions come and all the shapes and sizes let's get over it and get into this now I'm not very good at opening boxes I tend to tear my nails off in excitement so here we go two absolutely love it is my first impression now this is a Japanese cooking pot my kitchen craft actually and the reason why I chose a Japanese pot is because for many years I had a Japanese spirit guide my Japanese spirit guide was with me for 20 or so years of my life sadly you know we have he's moved on to past is new because we have discussed everything that we needed to discuss with each other although we do still speak and he therefore instilled in me a love of all things Japanese and so this is essentially just a ramen or some such one pot cooking pot but cast iron it's got the two handles so that I can hang it up above a fire and a very lovely wooden lid I'm particularly pleased with this my new purchase now the first thing I normally do when I get something from my craft is to lay my hands upon it and read the object this is called a psychometry psychometry psychometry and it is the reading of an object and taking it as impressions now I don't think I'm going to get many impressions when I tune in because this is a factory built new model so you know it doesn't have a history to tell me however there might be something if you would like me to do a video on how to read objects or psychometry leave me a comment below and we'll see if we can do one so let me have a quick go and see what I get there is some female association with it which I think is the worker who took it out and checked it as that's the impression that I'm receiving and put in this box so this cauldron doesn't have any background embedded into it and that is something that I expected to happen however I do want to make sure that it hasn't picked up any of the negative energy any of the person's hands that it has passed through therefore I'm going to do a quick cleansing now to cleanse an object such as this is really depends on the object now the way I would cleanse my cauldron is to use my pendulum and this pendulum here is the one that I would ask I use the pendulum to find out exactly how my cauldron required cleansing and the arthritis follows the first thing that was required was to wash my new pot in plain water and dry it carefully this is a piece of rose quartz bound with copper wire which I then placed inside the cauldron I also added this piece of chrysanthemum to my cauldron finally using my wand I asked the stone to cleanse the cauldron for me stones will remain in there for an hour or so and then the cleansing is complete a lot of traditional witches would birth their tools now birthing their tools they would go to a large stone with a natural hole in it a bit like one of my hagstones but 40 times the size and they would pass the tool of their trade through the hole in the stone birthing that particular item this would be done on a full moon or a new moon or you'd get your planetary alignments right and birth your cauldron cauldrons were always used and are used by witches of vessels of change so they are a womb of generation or a tomb of consumption as they are traditionally known as so the womb of generation just means that they might generate some magic or they can destroy something else traditional folk history gives them as having a life-giving properties merlin the great wizard of our theory and legend was brought back to life in daggers cauldron by nimwe his witch and helpmate cauldrons have always formed a huge part of british folk history durnax cauldron was one of the 13 treasures of ancient britain the 13 treasures are very simple things like a halter a knife a cauldron a cloak etc etc they were everyday items merlin that great wizard of our theory and legend spent his life finding these 13 treasures of britain and collecting them into one place together so he could use them to ensure albion which is great britain in personification would last forever my favorite magical cauldron of folk history was that of keridman who was a welsh giantess or druidess stories differ she brewed a potion in a cauldron for a year and a day this potion made you clever accomplished and handsome and she wanted it to be used on her son who was none of these things however in a roundabout way this potion then became imbued into the womb of keridwen and she gave birth to talison now talison is a very famous sixth century welsh bard he has made rather wonderful prediction about great britain which i think might be coming true as we speak their lord they shall praise their language they shall keep the land they shall lose except wild wales now i like this because we as britain have given our language to a lot of other cultures and it is considered english the standard language of the world we have lost quite a lot of our land you know ireland is moving further and further away from us as is scotland so we're still sort of keeping wales aren't they i'm not quite sure what about the lord that they shall praise it about but that'll come to us i'm sure let me know in the comments below what you think about this talison was a bard and druid remember so it's one of my favorites this one looked at my cauldron and studied it a bit i think i'm going to do my first spell is i'm going to make a potion in it and this potion is going to be a bathing potion so it's going to be some bath water i'm going to put it in my bath it's going to change me from feeling rather tired and stressed especially with my homeschooling which i'm not very good at too happy and relaxed so this is my spell for a healing bath water salt first of all a large tablespoon for cleansing and protection the next ingredient i'm going to add is a couple of dried bay leaves for purification and healing properties my third ingredient is a rather large slice of an orange for happiness and love and then finally i'm going to add just a few sprinkle of dried nettle which protects against all negative energy this is then covered with some moon water give it a stir and bring to the boil gently simmering the ingredients together for a couple of minutes place on the lid and let it cool slightly and then you can pour it into a bowl this now ready to add to your bath so i do hope you enjoyed this video and if you did let me know in the comments below what you're going to do with your cauldron have i given you any ideas i hope so do give me a subscribe and a thumbs up i'll see you in my next video