THE CAULDRON REPORT

HOW TO EXPLAIN DRUWAYU MORE DIRECTLY TO OTHERS

It is asked frequently how one explains Druwayu to others, which given the amount of information provided on this Church website, it is understandable it can seem difficult.

However, it isn't as complicated as many assume. So with that in mind, the following has been constructed for clarity and better insight.

Druwayu is a new religious movement and polytheistic philosophical religion organized as the First Church of Druwayu. It describes itself as a distinct religion rather than a branch of paganism, Wicca, Christianity, or another existing faith. The church states that it was formally established in 2024 in Oregon by its founder, Raymond S. G. Foster.

Its core beliefs, according to the church's own descriptions, include:

Architecture of Intent:

Why the Only Essential Tool in the Craft Is You!

Forget all the Wican (Wiccan) nonsense. The so called "Secret of Magic" is it requires no marketplace. Stripped of modern consumerism, the only essential instrument in the craft is the practitioner's own mind, intent, and willpower and ultimately a deeper examination of cultural root traditions that have very little to do with modern claims.

• While contemporary culture and social media have wrapped the craft in a highly visible aesthetic of expensive crystals, curated candle sets, and specialized ceremonial tools, these material goods are entirely optional. 

• Historically, folk magic used the trappings of the dominate religions or traditions, but existed independent of them, being born of perceived necessity and resourcefulness, utilizing everyday household items or no items at all.

THE INEXCUSABLE ABUSE OF HISTORY

One of the things that truly pisses me off is when people use actual victims of horrific things and hijack it to justify their own brand of the same sort of bullshit.

One of my pet peeves, if we can put it so gently is around such as the Salem Witch trials.

The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692 and 1693

This was not the United States at that time.

Halloween WAS A Catholic Observance

Every year we see the same slop repeated in one form or another, regurgitating the same nonsense and then used as a platform to redirect people's beliefs towards something often contrary or "darker or spooky" which is all pseudo-history slop.

The first thing we need to do is clear up the nonsense from modern fictions and go back to actual historical facts. To note, Samhain is recorded in Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's Glossary), written around 900 c.e. by Cormac mac Cuilennáin, the king-bishop of Munster. He explicitly glossed samain as "summer sunset" which was around the end of modern September to the first part of October.

Cormac specifically writes: samfuin .i. fuin in t-samraid ("sam-fuin, that is, the sunset/end of summer"). It shows here that he was also more or less reinventing words which many scholars have cited assuming it had more of a sense of gathering (less in th…

Bullshit: Get over it. MAGA Warlocks and Witches exist. So what. So do leftist ones, so do communist ones, so do socialist ones, so do independents, etc. They are not a contradiction, a novelty, or a progressive invention. Historical facts and the actual structure of the crafts make the usual objections collapse. However, let them bitch. Its free advertising.

Mockery only demonstrates the ongoing ignorance of those imposing themselves on everyone else and what “they demand” it to be, while also preaching that it is whatever you want it to be. Also, if you don't have a better grasp on things like theology and diverse philosophies and just spout topic gibberish, the ignorance is your own.

Witchcraft, sorcery, and related practices long predate modern politics, Wica (later promoted as Wicca), and the 20th-century “Pagan” revival. European folk magic, cunning folk, rootwork, hoodoo, Appalachian granny magic, and various ceremonial systems operated…

THE COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSÉ:

Warlocks, Witches and Politics

Ever hear or get told this?

“A real warlock or witch can’t support MAGA or capitalism”?

The vast majority of modern witch-cult folklore is predicated on flawed and misleading evidence compiled by Margaret Murray in her 1921 book, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. Murray’s extensive use of ellipses allowed her to selectively curate primary sources from witch trials to support her arguments while systematically excluding more fantastical accounts—specifically testimony regarding sexual encounters with the devil, infanticide, and flight—to instead force-fit a narrative of "nature worship" and prehistorical continuity. These "confessions" were extracted through the coercive, horrific methods of the institutional Church, frequently via leading questions. The primary source documentation of the medieval hunts is, therefore, largely composed of these coerced, pseudo-confessional narratives.

The Craft, Christianity and Judaism

The Uncomfortable Truth

More and More we see in some circles, people are calling themselves Warlocks and Witches as well as Christians or Jews, but we also see many Christian groups warning about the same in their Churches pushing paranoid bullshit. However, many will not like this, especially those who consider themselves Christian or Jewish as well as a Warlock or Witch. Yet, the question is if it true one can really be or proclaim to be a Christian Warlock or Witch? My honest answer is no.

Historically speaking, the closest term medieval Christianity and Judaism would have had for such individuals would be magicians — not in the modern sense of stage illusionists, but practitioners of magic when it and science in the form of natural philosophy were indistinct in many respects. Some traditions and writings also used terms like mage (male, plural mages),…