Welcome to my online witch's cottage. I'm Nettle. I am a longtime practitioner of magic with a love of folklore and history. I am queer (bisexual, nonbinary, in a lesbian-presenting relationship) and married. I am also autistic, with a convenient special interest in all things supernatural, magical, and paranormal. Coffee lover. Chronically ill. Cat mum. Ordained minister. Veiling Pagan. Baker. Candlestick maker. {read more}

I was never introduced to the concept of magic. In my family, magic was in the lore; in fact, it was in the whispered rumors. I can remember my uncle sitting in the living room, lowering his voice to confess, “You know your Nana is a witch. When we were growing up, she did all kinds of weird magic sh*t.”

I didn’t have the discernment back then to understand that, when he said my grandmother was a witch, he wasn’t bragging. I didn’t realise that my uncles didn’t think the idea of doing magic was cool. I, on the other hand, was immediately intrigued. The day I heard the family gossip, I went to my grandmother and told her that I, too, wanted to become a witch. {read more}