A Beginner's Guide to Witchcraft

Types of Witches

Witchcraft has many different paths. An individual can be strictly on one path, a part of many paths, or not identify with any path. All are fine and valid. I personally identify with two more specific paths but dabble in others from time to time.
What are these paths, though? Well, here's the list and what each does:

Types of Witchcraft

Green: Using plants, greenery, herbs, and flowers in magick. They often garden many things primarily for their witchcraft.
Hedge: An astral title that is oriented around astal work such as astral travel and projection, lucid dreaming spirit work, healing, and out of body experiences.
Dream: Practicing divination through dreams, practicing lucid dreamings, and interpreting one's dreams. This is a very internal form of magick.
Sea: Derived from materials and abstract ideas involving the ocean or anything related to the ocean. Some sea witches draw energy from the sea.
Storm: Storm witches combined their energy with that of the weather. They can predict and manipulate the weather.
Cottage/Hearth: Similar to Kitchen Magick. Weaving or infusing magic into mundane tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and daily hobbies.
Kitchen: Using herbs, crystal, mythical helpers, and other magickal assistance in cooking or brewings.
Tea: Working with tea. Making magickal herbal blends and practicing tea-leaf divination.
Tech: Magic worked through technology. Usually very tech savvy and often keep much of their craft digital.
Garden: Mostly herb and plant based craft. They are ultra-connected to nature and take great pride in their craft.
Elemental: Magick used in honor of the elements: water, air, earth, and fire.
Water: Magick specifically surrounding water. Collecting of water, creating symbols associated with water, bath spells, etc.
Earth: Magick specifically surrounding earth. Soil collecting, grounding exercises, etc.
Air: Magick specifically surrounding air. Wands, tools of air, are often used when using this craft.
Fire: Magick specifically surrounding fire. Often use fire (candles, bonfires, burnings, etc.) in their craft.
Flora: Using flowers, rather than herbs, as the primary plant in spells.
Urban: Seemingly rejecting traditional ways. Living an urban lifestyle while still practicing witchcraft. Blending of the two.
Fae: Working with fae when practicing witchcraft. Often leaving offering and thanks to these faes.
Spirit Working: Helping, working with, summoning, or otherwise associating with spirits. This is sometimes through Ouija. Includes demon spirits, spirit contact, etc.
Draconian: Calling upon the help of dragons in one's practice. Through astral matters or in spells and rituals.
Seasonal: Gaining energy from a certain season or only doing certain spells during certain times.
Embroidery/Sew/Knit: Using sewing, knots, etc. in rituals. Infusing such things with magick.
Paper: Specializing in paper spells. Burning written sigils and chants, creating magick origami, writing magick infused words, etc.
Music: Using witchcraft through music and music through witchcraft. They often play or preform music during spells, rituals, etc.
Chaos: Very non-tradtional or unorthodox. Extremely individual, varying from person to person.
Animal: Greatly connected to the animal kingdom. Uses animals in spell work. May use bones, wings, furs, scales, teeth, skins, and more from deceased animals. Often work with spirit animals.
Sanguine: Using blood or other life-giving fluids in one's craft.
Sigil: Using and making sigils as a primary source of magickal use.
Arts & Crafts: Using magick while making arts and crafts.
Gray: Neutral witchcraft that either fails to harm or benefit anyone or that is equally harmful and beneficial. Valuing a complete balance.
Bone: Finding, collecting, cleaning, and using the bones of deceased animals. These bones are collected peacefully by animals that have passed in a natural way.
Lunar: Honoring or taking notice of the moon's phases when performing a spell or ritual. Only doing spells on the correct or corresponding moon phase.
Astronomy: Magickal beliefs that relate to space and stars. Focus on horoscopes and properties of each planet.
Energy: Using energies and exercises rather than physical rituals or materials in order to work magick.
Crystal: Using crystals on as a main item in your craft. Often having extensive knowledge on stones and their properties.
Literacy: Continuing to regularly research and read informational pieces on witchcraft far past the beginning stages. A new witch cannot be a literacy witch as they are still in the researching stage themselves.
Necromancy: Mixture of bone, blood, animal, and spirit work. Using spirits to empower oneself, bone collecting working on graves or in graveyards, uses spirits, etc.

Pop Culture: Using pop culture as a base or inspiration for witchcraft. Examples include using Harry Potter spells and Supernatural sigils.
Eclectic: Taking a little from several types of witchcraft.

If I missed anything important or if you find anything to be inaccurate in any way, feel free to comment.