My Sisters Climb the Devil’s Tree: Vlach Faery Seership and Kalderash Witchcraft with Sasha Ravitch

My Sisters Climb the Devil’s Tree: Vlach Faery Seership and Kalderash Witchcraft with Sasha Ravitch

A part of the Voices of Folk Magic Series
This class will be livestreamed via Zoom in March 19th 2023 at 7pm EST and be available as a video afterwards.

In this class, Sasha Ravitch will share folklore, superstition, first-hand anecdotes, and anthropological research regarding the unique conjuration, ritualized possession, spirit-work, and oracular practices and charms, the Vlach sojmanka and the Kalderash painwife use in service of their faery and animal spirit familiars. Sasha will discuss with students some of the implications, complications, and manifestations of these lineages when the phenomena presents itself outside of the Balkans, and without the traditional role of the village. Students will walk away with several charms, offerings, and exercises that they can incorporate into their spirit work, conjuration, and visionary and prophetic practices, while honoring the unique and exclusive lineages they are born from.

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Sasha Ravitch is a writer and witch specializing in stars and spirits. A professional astrologer and spirit worker by trade, she teaches occult philosophy, astrology, psychoanalysis, and witchcraft. She casts her magic through a passion for meaning-making, relationships, and a devotion to the ancestral dead, psychoanalysis, sublunar spiritwork, folkloric witchcraft, intranquil daemons, and a particular affection for Freud and Saturn. You can find her on numerous podcast appearances, such as Gordon White’s Rune Soup and Spirit Box, and is regularly published in The Mountain Astrologer Magazine’s blog. She has spoken at conferences such as AstroMagia and the Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, and is currently finishing her forthcoming book on the aforementioned subjects through Revelore Press.

She devotes considerable time to her vibrant community of Patreon patrons, who endlessly tolerate her waxing poetic. She can be reached at sasha.ravitch@gmail.com, her Patreon (patreon.com/sasharavitch) and Instagram (@sasha.ravitch).