Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Hexe Claire, author of the new Magical Healing. In my work as a witchcraft author, doing research in old sources is a major task. And somehow we tend to become a little irrational when dealing with old magical knowledge. Let me explain this a little (you might know it from your own observances, as well). When we hear about old knowledge, there is a part of us that puts it on a pedestal. This is the true thing, the real deal, the original way it should be. Of course it is important to honour the ancestors and—since our magical tradition has long been suppressed—to learn whatever we can grasp from the old times. On the other hand,