Ancient Web: Earth Witchery Kept a Solitary Witch's Book of Shadows

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Earth Witchery does not introduce itself like a polished religion portal. It invites you into one person's home on the web, asks you to hover over green text, and places a cat named Oberon on guard.

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The owner identifies herself as Yvonne, an eclectic solitary witch. Her homepage links witchcraft, environmental ethics, moon phases, herbal work, and seasonal celebrations. This is a personal account of a religious practice, not an independent endorsement of magical or healing claims.

At the center is a Book of Shadows, the term used on the site for collections of rituals, reference notes, and practices. Its advertised subjects include the eight seasonal Sabbats, astrology, amulets, poppets, herbal gardens, and crafts. The page also links to a separate resource for tarot readers, including an old Buffy-themed tarot page on GeoCities.

The old community is still visible

A particularly telling section mentions free online classes made with a collaborator named Meliny. An update says the Dracona server is down and former students will be notified when it returns. The notices remain in place rather than being replaced by a new platform's generic course catalog.

At the foot of the homepage is an unmistakable old-web artifact: Dracona Witchery Network webring controls, with previous, next, random, and list-site navigation. The links point toward GeoCities and the former WebRing service. This was a way for individual pages to discover one another before recommendations were organized around a centralized social feed.

One surviving reference page reproduces thirteen principles of Wiccan belief, which it attributes to the Council of American Witches in April 1974. The document frames ritual around seasonal and lunar cycles, ethics, and individual responsibility toward nature. It is useful context for the worldview the site's owner describes.

Not every linked ritual page can be retrieved reliably today, and the surviving homepage does not establish a precise founding date. Its structure nevertheless preserves the relationship between a personal belief site, free shared resources, and a small independent network of peers.

The attraction is not that the web proved anyone's magic worked. It is that somebody could build an entire little library around a lived interest, decorate it herself, and invite strangers through the front door.

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Part of the Ancient Web Collection.