Witch Dance
A Magical Performance
of Power & Beauty
Dance is more than movement—it is magic in motion. In this ground-breaking work, Oscar Tusk unveils a forgotten yet vital aspect of Traditional Witchcraft: the Witch Dance. Long depicted in folklore and ritual as central to the Craft, dance has too often been overlooked as a true source of magical power. This book restores its place at the heart of witchery.
Through a blend of history, practical guidance, and lived tradition, Witch Dance explores both the communal circle dances that raise power in covens and the solitary movements that open the gates to the Lunar Astral. From subtle gestures and postures performed by candlelight to ecstatic expressions of will, Tusk shows how the body itself becomes a spell—an offering of power, beauty, and transformation.
With step-by-step instruction, chants, and ritual practices, this book invites witches of all abilities—young and old, beginner and adept, able-bodied and disabled—to discover the liberating truth: if you can move, you can dance, and if you can dance, you can weave magic.
A guide to preparation, ritual tools, sigils, and sacred visualization grounds the work, while practical dance sequences unlock the mysteries of knowledge, power, balance, will, and insight. Whether performed in solitude or with others, Witch Dance offers a path to embody magic, to become the spell, and to let the spirit move through you.
Witch Dance is both a call to reclaim one of the oldest arts of the Craft and an invitation to embrace dance as a magical performance of power and beauty—accessible to every witch who dares to step into the circle.
Available in the following editions:
Paperback Edition: Gloss with cover, full colour images throughout, printed on white matt coated paper – To follow.
Hardback Edition: Gloss dust jacket with gloss with cover, full colour images throughout, printed on white matt coated paper – To follow.
Special Edition: a purple faux leather case binding of 250 examples with gold foil blocking to cover & spine, printed on white matt coated 115gsm paper stock with full colour images, black end papers, with black head and tail bands.
Size: All editions – 187 x 114mm 111 pages
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue
Alternate Dance Practices
Chapter 1 – Preparation
Chapter 2 – So you think you can’t dance
Basic Movements
Chapter 3 – Creating the Mood
Dance Ritual Timing
Introduction to Astrology
Planetary Rulers and Aspects
Chapter 4 – Musical and Other Accompaniment
The Components of Rhythm and Melody
Instruments for Witch Dance
Vocal Accompaniment
Chapter 5 – Dances for Individuals and Groups
Individual Dances
Small Group Dances
Medium-Sized Dances
Large Group Dances
Dances for Children
Chapter 6 – More Beginning Musical Theory for Dance
Musical Composition
A Basic Understanding of Time Signature
Chapter 7 – Book of Songs
Blessings
Blessing for Good Health
Blessing for Cure
Blessing of a Home or Domicile
Blessing of Safe Passage
Blessing of Good Fortune
Blessing of Knowledge
Blessing of Discernment
Celebrations
Celebration of Wedding
Celebration of Solar Returns (Birthdays)
Celebration of Sexual Union
Celebration of Childbirth
Charming (Charging)
Witch Bottle (Dark)
Witch Bottle (Bright)
Goofball (Black Wax)
Goofball (Red Wax)
Emblems and Talismans
Witch Ladder
Curses
Relief from Affliction
Quell the Torment
Harm Me Not
Torment be Vanquished
Fire and Smoke
Defeat in Battle
Revenge (Simple Form)
Revenge of the Witches
Union and Joining
Dance of Union
Death (Funerary)
Calling of Souls (Receiving the Soul)
Dance of Slack Arms
Journey of the Interregnum
Distribution of the Ashes
Reunification of the Ashes
Interment of the Cremains (Grove of Remembrance)
Recording of Death
Greetings (Formal Festivals)
Dance of the Three Crones
Serpentine Dance
Maypole Dance
Table of Figures
Figure 1 – The protective Sigil worn during Witch dance magic.
Figure 2 – An explanation of the features of the Dance Sigil illustrated in Figure 1
Figure 3 – An ambigram with an important message
Figure 4 – An ambigram which illustrates the close relationship between magic and ability to form a mental image
Figure 5 – An altar prepared for a dance ritual followed by water or obsidian mirror scrying
Figure 6 – Altar Layout from Figure 2 With Tools and Implements Labelled
Figure 7 – View of the celestial sphere as imagined by ancient Astrologers
Figure 8 – Illustration of the position of the Sun at Summer Solstice
Figure 9 – The Houses of the Zodiac (the equal house system is illustrated)
Figure 10 – Aspect of Opposition (Detriment)
Figure 11 – Square Aspect (Fall)
Figure 12 – Conjunction (Harmony)
Figure 13 – Trine Aspect (Exalted)
Figure 14 – Sextile as stated in Table 2
Figure 15 – The Quadruplicities are associated with the four elements, Air, Water, Earth, and Fire
Figure 16 – Modalities and the Seasons
Figure 17 – An overview of the concepts which underlie the practice of Astrology
Figure 18 – A dance diagram for a small group employing the concept of balance
Figure 19 – The Dance of the Three Crones
Figure 20 – Layout for a Serpentine Dance
Figure 21 – Pathway schematic for the May Pole Dance
Figure 22 – A musical scale in the Key of C Major with pitch notation
Figure 23 – Diagram of Sigil of Sexual Union
Figure 24 – Annotated Sigil of Sexual Union
Table 1 – Guide to the Astrological symbols for the Signs of the Zodiac and the Planetary bodies
Table 2 – Aspects
Table 3 – Various Aspects by sign, planetary ruler, and effect
Table 4 – Book of Songs by Category

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