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Episode 79: Cauldrons
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Welcome back Witches! This week we're going to be talking about one of the witch's most used tools in her tool kit, the cauldron Cauldrons can be any shape or size and have no limits to how they can be used. So get in losers and let's explore the witch's Cauldron.
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References:
- Silverwind, Selene. The Witch’s Journal. (2009) Fall River Press.
- Evans, Zteve T. (2021). Ancient Celtic Cauldrons: The Magical, The Mythical, the Real. Folklore Thursday. https://folklorethursday.com/legends/ancient-celtic-cauldrons-the-magical-the-mythical-the-real/
- Hopkins, Julie (n.d.). How to use your cauldron and 9 amazing ways to get started. The Traveling Witch. https://thetravelingwitch.com/blog/2018/8/16/how-to-use-your-cauldron-9-amazing-ways-to-get-started
- TikTok
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b. Magebymoonlight
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Transcript
Introduction to Witchcraft
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft in the occult but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In, Loser. We're doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we've learned about the craft. So get in, witches, as we talk all things cauldrons.
Humorous Dog Anecdotes
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So,
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He is a little snuggler man every night. So we put a blanket at the end of our bed and we like tell them like, go lay on your, we call it their pop-up blanket. We'll be like, go lay on your pop-up blanket. And so they'll both go down there and lay down. And then Anthony will be like playing on his phone and I'll be reading. And then you just hear like a little shimmy and you look down and they'll like just be laying there looking at you like, I didn't do nothing, but they're a little bit close. Shimmy shimmy.
00:01:08
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Yeah. Until they like, worm their way up in between us. Like, Rune will be right next to me. She'll be like, right next to Anthony. Rune will have his head on my pillow snoring. Oh my god. That is really cute. They're so precious. We have the most precious pups on the planet. I don't know how we ended up with them. Turds, man. Yeah.
00:01:35
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All done. All done. All done. Now. Now. Now. Play. He's giving you a time limit for the podcast. He's like, all done. Mom. All done. That's not home. Now I want to play. Right. All fucking done. That's what I said. All done.
00:01:57
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we're like 100% sure he's like picking it up and understanding what the buttons mean. Because sometimes like, he'll ask to go outside and we'll tell him like no outside later. And then he'll go no outside. And we give him some snugs and he'll like run over to the thing and be like all done. Love you. We're like, Oh,
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If it's an accident, it's a precious accident. I don't think that's an accident because it makes sense. You know what I mean? He does so many things that make sense with them and we try to model with the buttons as much as we can. Sometimes if I'm cooking, doing something and I can't go over to the buttons and push them, I'll just say what the button says so that he knows.
00:02:44
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I honestly think he's picking up the actual meanings and how to use them correctly because he is doing it. Yeah. I love that. Wow. What a sweet way to pull. I told you his trainer on his graduation weighed him for us because she was curious how big he was. Did I tell you that?
00:03:09
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This was two days before he turned six months and he was 57 pounds. He's going to be a monster when he's full grown. He weighed more than nicks. You adopted a horse. Literally. That's what happened.
00:03:28
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And then last week we were watching them play and Anthony was like, oh my god, he's bigger than her. He's like officially taller than her. And I was like, no he's not. And they were like running next to each other and he was behind her but you could see his back above hers and I was like, oh my god.
00:03:45
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And just a few years ago, he was like a teeny tiny little thing. I know. Well, so his because we did his like DNA thing. And it does a lot of stuff like that. Embark one is really good. And it goes into like a lot of health things and like coat patterns, like where those come from. And so one of them is they predict what their adult weight would be. And I think their prediction was like 72 pounds. And Anthony, I told Anthony and he was like,
00:04:15
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damn it. Like I didn't want another big dog. And then when she like weighed him when he was like five months and she was like, he's 57 pounds, Anthony went online and he went to two different like, you can put in like your puppy's age and breed and like what they weigh. And it'll predict and both websites that he used predicted he's going to be 115 pounds. Oh my God.
00:04:42
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He's gonna be a big boy. Lucian was 120, like when he was at his peak. Yeah. Like when he was like super fit and muscly, like when he was like a little teenage pup. Yeah. So.
Researching Cauldrons for the Podcast
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So what are we talking about today? Cauldrons. This was an interesting topic. Like I liked researching it, but it
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It was also difficult. Yeah, it was way harder to research than I thought it was going to be. I thought I was just going to be like cauldrons and I have like a plethora of information. But instead I was like cauldrons and it was like, yeah, here's how to DIY a cauldron for Halloween. Here's how to DIY a cauldron that smokes.
00:05:33
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It was just DIY project after DIY project after DIY project. And I was like, this is not what I'm looking for. You are not being helpful, Google. No, yeah. It was a little bit difficult, but we have some information. Yeah, we do. And I remembered that I have this book that my lovely witchy neighbor gave me called The Witches Journal.
00:05:57
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And it's like, for some reason, every time there's a topic that I'm having a hard time researching online, this book will have like three or four pages on whatever it is that I'm looking for. And I was like, wait, let me check that book that my neighbor gave me. And I opened it and like in the thing, it was like cauldrons. And I was like, yes, that's awesome. So a lot of the information that I am going to be talking about does come from that book. But I also was like, let me check TikTok because
00:06:28
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That thing is great for short little snippets when my brain is dead. So I just typed in cauldron on TikTok and scrolled through a couple of things, and I was like, huh, learning all the things today. Right, yeah. So to get us started, we're going to talk about a little bit of history and background. So a cauldron is essentially a vessel that is usually made from cast iron and used to burn herbs, hold fire, water, magical oils, and even used in spellwork.
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The cauldron represents the goddess and its symbolic of the womb and feminine power. Therefore, it is a space of creation and magic. This also associates the cauldron with the birthing process, rebirth, transformation, and abundance.
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Some sources state that the cauldron is also a symbol of the element water, while others state that it represents the element of Earth as well as being a vessel used to contain fire. The cauldron can honestly be seen as a keeper of all of the elements though, since it really is capable of holding and containing each one.
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While having a
Cauldrons in Mythology and Symbolism
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traditional cauldron is fun, the truth is that really any pot can be used in place of a cauldron. The traditional material used to create a cauldron is iron, but they could be made from any fire-resistant metal, and they come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and they can range in size from like really, really small, think like three to five inches perfect for like sitting on your altar, to really, really big, like holds 25 gallons.
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which something that I love about there's so our neighborhood is really good about holidays like going all out in their decor. And this person that lives on the very like the very last house of our street for Halloween, they put all these like
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He builds these caskets to decorate his front yard in and then he has like this Huge cauldron on this giant tripod that you know, what's not in his yard and he plants like autumn flowers in it I love that I freaking love it. I think I sent you a picture of it last year I went for a walk and I was like look at this cute cauldron
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Yeah, that's really huge. I'm like, where did you get this? Because I want it. Yeah, I need that. Thank you. I need it. Thanks. Yeah, so there's a lot of Welsh and Irish kelp mythology and lore surrounding the use of the cauldrons and its role. And whenever I was researching like the history and backgrounds and stuff, a lot of what I was finding related back to
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Welsh and Irish lore, so that's what I'm gonna speak to. So they were often attributed with magical properties, but were also used in the everyday lives of the ancient Celts. So they were used in cleaning, boiling, cooking, bathing, and carrying water.
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They also had its place in many religious rites and of course, like we mentioned, in mythology. So a cauldron was known as a container for water, so even things like oceans and lakes were often thought as great cauldrons too, which I thought was pretty cool. I love that. Yeah.
00:09:39
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sometimes cauldrons were left as offerings as well to gods in places like bogs, rivers, and pools of water and archaeologists have found like ancient cauldrons and like bogs and stuff so interesting and then according to um i'm gonna probably pronounce this wrong i think it's
00:09:58
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Steve. It's like Steve, but with a Z, so I'm not sure. But according to him, Steve T. Evans of Folklore Thursday, in Celtic mythology, lore was tied to the bubbling of the cauldron when boiled, and they could read certain things about other people and judge how much artistic inspiration they received in their life by the way the cauldron boiled.
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And I thought that was interesting. So they would essentially perform this right or ritual and essentially divine information from the way the cauldron boiled on that person that they were reading for. So it's just like another divination tool for them. That's interesting.
00:10:47
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Celtic lore actually describes several cauldrons throughout stories and histories. The first being the Cauldron of Plenty. It was said that it was brought to Ireland by the god Dagda, and it provided enough nourishment for an entire army, apparently. They just used it to feed the people.
00:11:09
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Yes, yeah. When I was reading about this, it said that everyone of good character could eat their fill from this cauldron, which never ran out. And the ladle was supposed to be so big that it could fit two men in it.
00:11:22
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Like, could you imagine? Like, I just need a little bit of soup. You get like two humans worth. Two human beings worth. The next is the cauldron of rebirth and it belonged to the Welsh giant and King Bronn the Blessed.
00:11:40
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Any warrior that died in battle could be placed in the cauldron to be reborn, but when they were reborn, they were unable to speak. Like, they were alive but not able to talk. Yes. So I went kind of down a little bit of a rabbit hole with this one because I thought this was really interesting. Yeah. This cauldron is also known as the Pear de Denny, and it originally belonged to two giants. And I didn't even put their names in here because they were, like,
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kind of long and this is not about that. But anyway, so it belonged to these two giants who lived below a lake in Ireland and the lake was called the Lake of the Cauldron. And so essentially these giants had a falling out with the Irish king and they basically fled to Wales because of their fight with the king as a payment or a gift for accepting them into their country. They gave
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the Welsh king, the cauldron, but throughout time, a little bit later, the Irish king that had a falling out with the giants went to Wales for the purpose of trying to marry his son to the Welsh princess.
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but there was like a huge thing with that because like the way they were asking for it like there was some like disrespect there with like this marriage proposal and like there was like a horse slaughter there was like a whole bunch of like acts of aggression essentially. What did the horses do? Exactly nothing nothing but so eventually as like
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kind of reparations for the horse slaughter. The Welsh king then gifted the cauldron to the Irish king, so it went back to Ireland. And the Irish king, he also took the princess too. The princess went with them as well, so it was like he basically got the best of both worlds. He got the cauldron and the princess. Yeah, and the princess.
00:13:37
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Yeah. So back in Ireland, this princess was treated really badly by the king, and he was so mean to her and mean to her children that she birthed, and it was a whole thing. So she ended up the princess, called her brother back in Wales, who was also the guy who slaughtered the Irish
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king's horses. And he's just like, this is bullshit. I'm going to come and kick this king's ass because he's being mean to you. So he comes over to Ireland and there's a whole war and everything. And what they found out,
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the Welsh prince realized that all of the Irish army like when they would die they would put them in this cauldron and have them be reborn and they didn't it took a while for them to catch on because they're like what the fuck we I thought we killed these motherfuckers but no they were being reborn but obviously they couldn't speak so the Welsh prince had this like great idea of like I'm gonna pretend like I am a dead Irish
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soldier and so they put him in the cauldron with all the other Irish soldiers and he was able to like basically Defeat the cauldron and like null its powers
00:14:51
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while in the cauldron. And then he also died too. But that was the end of the cauldron. But I don't know. I just thought that mythology and the lore related to that was so interesting. I wonder if this is where Sarah J. Mask gets her lore for the cauldron in Akatar. Right. That's what I was thinking. She pulls so much from old lore and mythology. It all is tied to something that already has this story of it. Yeah.
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The next one I have is the Cauldron of Wisdom, which is said to bring inspiration and divine knowledge, and it's often associated with the Holy Grail. And the associations are really loose. Some tie it to being the actual Holy Grail, and then some it's just another form of the Holy Grail. Interesting. Yeah.
00:15:45
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Also, we've talked about this already on the podcast, so I'm not going to go into a little tangent on this one, but obviously, the Cauldron of Caridwen, we've discussed in season one, so if you haven't listened to the episode, go back and find it. I didn't link it, so you'll just have to go and listen to our previous episode.
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But the Cauldron of Caridwen was the Cauldron of Knowledge, Inspiration, and Rebirth. And obviously, for those of you who need a little reminder, this was the story that we told on the podcast of Caridwen and Guion and I can't remember how to say his name, Taliesin.
00:16:23
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Guillen was like stirring the cauldron and he got some fucking drops on him and he licked it and then it was a whole thing and then she went on a chase and it was a crazy ass fucking story. And if you haven't listened to that episode, go fucking listen to it because it's so good. What's the story where he was like stirring this cauldron for like a year or something? Yes. Yeah. It was like a year and a day or something. And I was like, who does this? Right. No one. And all of this for three drops. Three drops. Yeah.
00:16:53
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and he looked it and then, you know, it was a whole thing. It was a whole mess. The last one I have is the silver Gundestrup cauldron, which dates back to either the first or second century. The history is a little bit murky on that one, BC. And it was found in a peat bog in Denmark. It depicts
00:17:15
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Celtic gods and warriors and has an initiation ritual carved into it. Like if you look it up, the pictures are kind of cool, but Carnunnos is one of the Celtic deities that's depicted on the cauldron and he's shown with antlers and he's like surrounded by a bunch of animals. I love that. Yeah. So that's all of the history we have. So
Practical Uses of Cauldrons in Witchcraft
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let's talk about how you can use your cauldron.
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So since cauldrons are literally like pots, you can use your cauldron for cooking. And this is fantastic for like kitchen witches or green witches, really any witches, because you can put anything like a summer pot, you can, you know, sprinkle a little herbs in your food and give it to everyone. But
00:18:01
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Yeah. It's like a great tool for a kitchen witch though. It really is. And you can do something like make cauldron tea with it. So obviously, you know, you'd want to make sure your cauldron would be completely clean. But this works really well if you have a smaller cauldron too, because you can take a tea light candle and put it underneath your cauldron and that will help to brew your tea. And I thought that was really cute.
00:18:25
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I think Amazon actually has some that have the little altar sized cauldrons, but they come on the little tiny tripods with a little tea light holder underneath it. Cauldrons can be used in any kind of spellwork, but it's said that they're especially powerful when you use them for transformational spells. You can write down things that you wish to attract or banish, and then you can burn the paper in your cauldron.
00:18:50
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Another amazing thing that you can use your cauldron for is spell work and I like to use my cauldron as a space to practice magic. So I will put my spell ingredients in the cauldron with a spell candle and like a candle holder or even like light the bottom of the candle and so like it's all waxy and then like stick it to the bottom of my cauldron to let it stand up. I love this method because it's easy to clean up and it helps my anxiety to calm down a bit because everything is combined into like a fire safe area. Like obviously don't
00:19:18
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light a candle in your cauldron and then fucking leave. But I love that because also with certain things like bay leaves and cinnamon and paper, some of these things can produce a big flame. And so putting it in a cauldron with all your spell ingredients and stuff, it's really great. And then if you have a lid, you can just put it on top just in case. Obviously, but make sure you keep some water nearby or something too. But that's my favorite method of safety. Yes.
00:19:46
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You can use your cauldron to burn herbs to amplify the magical energy of your spells or even just as incense. I love making loose herb incense and just popping a little coal in my cauldron and tossing some on top and then going about whatever I'm doing, whether it's
00:20:04
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working in my herbs, mixing teas or salves or whatever, or even just cooking in the kitchen. It's my favorites. And Anthony will come in if I'm busy, he'll be like, Oh, you need a little more and he'll like top off my coal with a little more herbs. I love that. I this is one of my favorite ways to use it. And when I was doing some research for this episode, it was like, don't be the type of person that only use your cauldron to burn herbs. And I was like, first of all, rude.
00:20:30
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Right. Second of all, don't tell me how to practice. Exactly. Yeah, you do what works best for you. Yeah, if you just want to burn herbs in your cauldron, burn herbs in your cauldron, it's fine. You can use it to make black salt. If you have a larger cauldron, you can include it in your celebrations throughout the will of the year. Like obviously we said it's
00:20:50
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essentially just a pot too, so you can cook in it, make a wassail or a mulled wine in it, just you know have it as like a centerpiece for all of your celebrations.
00:21:03
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Yeah, you can even use it to collect moon water. But with this one, you have to be very careful because a lot of cauldrons, basically, pretty much most of them are made out of cast iron. And that rests very easily. So you need to make sure like if this is something you're wanting to use in your practice, when you're done collecting your moon water, and like it's the next day, make sure you empty out the moon water that's in the cauldron. And then
00:21:28
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wipe down your cauldron and make sure that it's dry. You don't want any water just left over. But also if you practice in a high humidity environment like fucking Okinawa, it's probably not a great idea because that moisture and everything, it's just not good for your cauldron. So just be careful if you want to use this method with working with a cauldron.
00:21:49
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And I'll talk a little bit later about how you can prevent your cauldron from rusting too. But yeah, you can store your spell ingredients or ritual tools in your cauldron to charge them with the energy of transformation, which I've never thought of. I knew that they were considered like transformative, but I didn't think about like them, like if you put crystals or whatever, your herbs, whatever inside that it would like charge them with that energy. And you can also do this with your moon water as well.
00:22:17
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And I was reading about this. This is something that I've not done before, but I thought it was intriguing. I'm not going to do that here because like our backyard, we don't have a fucking fence and we live like really close proximity to all of our neighbors, but you could do buried cauldron spells.
00:22:32
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And I think this works really well with what you were saying with the transformation spells. But so for cleansing, you could place whatever ingredient or crystals or whatever into your cauldron, put the lid on it, and then bury it in the earth for a few hours. And that helps to cleanse it, but then also charge it with that same transformative energy. So like Sam was saying earlier, how it was used for, what is it, the bubbles from the boy it boils? Yeah. Or what is divination? That's the word I'm looking.
00:23:01
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It's like, you know, that thing. Or that thing. How they would use the boiling cauldron for diminatory purposes. You could also fill your cauldron with water and use it for scrying. You can use it to cast spells for transformation, renewal, inspiration, knowledge, abundance, and healing. If you live in a small space or a space where you lack a yard, you can actually use your cauldron to build like little mini fires along the wheel of the year for Sabbath celebrations.
00:23:29
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Make a simmer pot in your cauldron and just let it go all day. But of course, make sure you're paying attention and you're refilling the water when you need to do that. Really, just with your cauldron, the possibilities are endless when it comes to all the various ways that you can use it. So on to
Cauldron Maintenance and Care
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your cauldron care.
00:23:45
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Remember that with a cauldron it's made out of cast iron so you want to always dry it completely after using it with water to help keep it from rusting and you should also oil and bake it to cure it in between uses with liquids. You could also store a dry paper towel or a dish towel inside of your cauldron when you're not using it to help absorb any moisture that you may have missed.
00:24:08
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You should wipe your cauldron out with a damp cloth if you notice that ash is really starting to build up around the inside. And if you use your cauldron for cooking, make sure you follow the usual instructions for cleaning iron or metal cookware. And this is going to vary depending on the material your cauldron is made out of, but just a quick Google search can help you find the appropriate cleaning method.
00:24:29
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A lot of it involves like cleaning it with soap and then oiling it and baking it. That's a pretty standard method. Keep your cauldron stored on your altar or stored with your other tools in between uses. If it's used by someone other than yourself for non-magical purposes, like if it's a cooking pot or if it's used for banishing spells, it's recommended that you cleanse and consecrate it before using it again as well.
00:24:53
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Yeah and so whenever I was researching more about cauldron care and everything online, I came across this blog and it's from the, well the blog's called The Traveling Witch and she has like a brief, like super easy way to cleanse your cauldron but also to make black salt at the same time.
00:25:12
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so she mentions that cast iron holds on to a lot of magical energy as well as energy from everyone who has come to contact with the cauldron from manufacturing to shipping to it just being in the store and people touching it as they go by so
00:25:27
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it's very important when you first get your cauldron to cleanse it but you know this is something that you can do obviously the first time you get it but then like Tiffany was saying like anytime like you are using a cauldron for like cooking or if you're just ready to cleanse it again you can also use this method as well so it's not just like a one and done situation so basically like this is a multitasking little tip so what you would do is
00:25:55
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dip your cauldron in cool running water of a stream to wash away any energy that has settled into your cauldron. Obviously, if you don't live somewhere with cool running water like a stream, you can use your fucking sink. You don't have to go and find a stream or anything. Wash it out with water and you'll be fine. Then when you're done, you dry it off with a towel and then you mix sea salt and olive oil in your cauldron and wipe it inside and out
00:26:20
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with this sea salt and olive oil mixture and then what you're going to do is you're going to place your cauldron in the oven at 450 degrees for 90 minutes and then after 90 minutes you turn off your oven and let the cauldron cool off inside the oven and then once it's cool you're going to take the salt residue that's left inside your cauldron this is now called black salt and you're going to put it into like a little container airtight container is perfect or like a little jar whatever you have and then
00:26:47
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you'll rub a little bit more salt and oil in and all over the cauldron and set the cauldron upside down in the oven for another 90 minutes at 450 degrees and once it's cooled your your cauldron is ready to go and this like again like it helps you create black salt and it also cleanses your your cauldron which is amazing. This is also very like
00:27:09
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minus the salt in the oven. This is typical care for cast iron. So yes, if you have a cast iron cauldron, or even just cast iron pans, you would clean it with the like, dip it under the running water, clean it with salt and oil. If you're just using this pan for just cooking, you're gonna get all of the salt out of it, pop it in the oven at the 450 for 90 minutes, then let it cool. And then you rub a little more oil on it in the same way. So now you got a double whammy tip.
00:27:38
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There you go. If you're not trying to make black salt, you don't need the salt in the oven. Exactly. Yes. But if you are, there you go. Perfect. Multitasking.
Finding and Choosing Cauldrons
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Let's talk a little bit about finding a cauldron. There are many places you can find a cauldron. Like Tiffany was saying, it can literally just be a pot. It could be a pot that you found at fucking Walmart. It doesn't matter.
00:28:03
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you use what works best for you. But with the advent of social media, making witchcraft more accessible, you can go to specific websites and reviews or just compare different websites to find the exact one that you're looking for. Cauldrons can come, like Tiffany said, in many different sizes. So it's pretty easy to find something that will fit your needs. I've even seen cauldrons that are teeny fucking tiny.
00:28:26
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And they do big things and they're so cute. So, I mean, if you are someone who's like maybe practicing the broom closet or say you live in a small space and you don't have enough room for like a larger instrument and you don't want to use like a cooking pot, you can buy like a teeny tiny one. Just do what works best for you.
00:28:47
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But with that being said, try to look for one that is made out of cast iron. This is a traditional material used for cauldron and it's best for standing up to high heat. But again, if what works best for you is a pot that you found at Walmart, then do that. Just make sure that you are
00:29:05
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doing your research, like we always say, making sure that you are practicing safely. Understand, will this material hold up to high heat? Will this material be okay if I leave a candle in it? Just make sure you do your research.
00:29:22
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And then say you can't find an actual cauldron or you are practicing in the broom closet and you're not comfortable having an actual cauldron because you're scared someone might see it. There's a lot that you can use as cauldron substitutes. Again, the key here is going to be making sure that the material is suitable to be used as a cauldron, meaning that it's fire safe and the material is free from coating and paint.
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So, some examples could be an iron dutch oven, steel stock or sauce pots that are uncoated, unpainted ceramic flower pots with the base, small chimineas, which I don't know why it specifically said small chimineas. Again, cauldrons come in every size, so use a chiminea that fits your
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your need. If you have a large one already, use that. Fire pits. For outdoor use only, obviously, fire pits and barbecues. And then a large stone mortar, an iron kettle, not a tea kettle, and a braise shear. I love it.
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I love that there's so many different things that you can use in place of just like a cauldron because especially for someone who maybe is practicing in the broom closet and even if like say you're practicing the broom closet you have your own home but you don't want anybody to come over and like see that and you're not ready to discuss that part of you yet. Having something like an iron dutch oven or like steel like you were saying like sauce pans that are uncoated and stuff like that's like normal things that people would have in their home.
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So like I have a little tiny guy that I use for like burning herbs and incense and whatever, like putting paper in when I'm burning, you know, but for the most part, because I practice a lot,
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in the kitchen. I have a huge cast iron Dutch oven that I use for like simmer pots and for cooking or mulled wine or whatever. So really just whatever works for what you're doing, whatever fits your needs. And like we said, if you could use anything as a substitute, like if everybody has pots and pans, use a pot and pan if that's all you have. Yeah.
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