Witch – One particularly skilled or competent at one’s craft – A woman claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery - A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
- Green Witch – A GreenWitch has the knowledge and herb cunning to grow her own herbs and/or knows where to find them in the wild. A “Green Witch” uses that what mother earth has already provided for her in her own “backyard” and uses her knowledge of it to make medicine and potions. A Horticulturist and herbalist all rolled up in one.
- Kitchen Witch – Kitchen Witches get their name from their concern for the home, and from their tendency to find spell components in their kitchen. Spells crafted by them tend to be a little less focused on ritual and more focused on practicality. They also tend to focus their magick on regular household tasks, especially cooking with a large focus on herbs and spices. They can be from any religion or creed, including some that don’t accept the reality of magick. They often use herbal magick, including (but of course not limited to) making teas, brews, potions and food. Food is everywhere in the circle of life, and by preparing food, a “kitchen witch” is working rituals through the use of cooked foods and herbs that is given to others to eat and even bubbeling brews that they themselves eat. Kitchen witches usually keep a pot of basil herbs growing in the kitchen area to keep it safe from negative spirits. Quartz crystal placed on or near the stove when cooking makes food taste better. Kitchen Witchery isn’t really a religion; it’s a way of living.
- Cottage Witch – also known as a Kitchen Witch is one who’s magickal works are mainly centered on hearth and home. Most of the Witch’s work is done quite literally in the kitchen and/or other areas of the home. The entire dwelling is seen as sacred space, not just a particular room where ritual is held. Cooking IMHO is a must for kitchen witchery- one would add culinary useful herbs into their cooking to bring protection, prosperity and healing to their kith and kin through meals and beverages shared. Teas are brewed to sooth the body and soul and elixirs to clear the mind are steeped in magick. Cottage Witches are very crafty and use charms in the forms of wreaths, sachets, dream pillows and dried herbs and flowers such as Potpourri or herbal Bouquets. They are also usually good with incense, oils, bath salts and soap making as well. All these items are likely to be found throughout the household where magick is an entire way of life, not just occasionally. Cottage Witches and Kitchen witches are also known for making healing ointments, salves and tinctures. Kitchen witchery and Cottage witchery can be used as ones sole practice or in conjuntion with other paths. read more here.
- White Witch – White witch is a title occasionally given to cunning folk. These were workers of folk magic who charged money for removing the supposed effects of witchcraft. A white witch was not a subtype of witch, but a completely different class of person. While there is no evidence for the existence of witches, white witches were a matter of record.
- White witch or good witch are qualifying terms in English used to distinguish those helpful witches who do not use magic to harm others from normal witches. It can refer to either fictional characters with such characteristics or to actual practitioners of folk magic called cunning folk or witch doctors; individuals who charged money for removing the supposed effects of witchcraft.
- Black Witch -The term black witch is a relatively modern creation generally used to distinguish between “good” and “bad” witches. The phrase appeared in common usage as an antonym to “white witch”; since the word “witch” itself has long had connotations of evil-doing and connections to Satanism, the phrase would until recently have been considered redundant.
- These terms are used subjectively, but in general, good or “white” witches use magic in a helpful, constructive manner (see also: Wiccan Rede), black witches use it in a harmful and/or destructive manner. Many modern Neopagans consider magic itself to be neither good nor evil, and thus this distinction describes the way in which a given witch uses magic, rather than the kind of magic used.
- Hedgewitches - who work on their own and practise ‘low’ magic – using spells, crystals and natural potions to help and heal.
