Cuban-Floridian Folk Magic

Witchcraft in the Big Cypress Swamp

Caribbean Folk Saints and Mighty Dead: La Caridad del Cobre

Few symbols represent Cubanía or Folk Saints better than that of La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. For almost as long as Cuba has...

Swamp Witch Travels: The Everglades

The Seminole War that never ended, a charm to Split a Storm and an Ancient Island. For centuries, the Everglades has been the object of...

Caribbean Folk Saints and Mighty Dead: A Precursor

We all have family members who take on an almost Mythic quality after they pass on. They may have been a character in life, or a perhaps...

Swamp Witch Travels: Rainbow Springs

History Rainbow Springs’ first human visitors probably came upon her waters well over 10,000 years ago in the form of paleo-indigenous...

Swamp Witch’s Guide to Pine Trees

For this post, I will be talking about lore of Pine across cultures, with a focus on my local species here in Florida, the Slash Pine...

Florida Folklife: Key West, Cuban Exile, and Paradise Dying?

The first Cemetery I ever visited and was the Historic Key West City Cemetery. I was 5, I had a fixation on it and begged my mom to take...

Florida WitchCraft: Gator Tooth Pendulum

I was guided by the Spirits of the Land I live on to craft a tool that would be able to help me commune with them. Specifically, it is...

Swamp Witch Travels: Finding Sacred Space

Myakka River and Payne's Creek State Parks As I dive deeper into my practice of bioregional animism, I look to parks for sacred space and...

Land Acknowledgment

The Land given the name "Florida" belonged to various Indigenous groups

pre-colonization, including the Tocobaga, Timucua, Mayaka, and in SWFL, the Calusa. These groups, along with several who migrated from farther North, are the Ancestors of the Miccosukee and Seminole Tribes. to who's hands the Land rightfully belongs. This link is a good starting off point to learn more about Florida"s Indigenous People/

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