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 Kitchen Witch: Cheese

Cheese and butter are two of the most popular and widely used dairy products in the world. Both have been around for centuries, with cheese thought to have been invented over 8,000 years ago and butter being used for thousands of years before that.

The 2nd-century diviner, Artemidorus, mentions “tyromancy” – cheese divination – as a method of discovering the future in his treatise Oneirocritica. Ironically, given our later association of cheese with vivid dreams, Artemidorus claims that cheese fortune-telling is among the most unreliable.

The Interpretation of Dreams, a 17th-century English manual, advised that: “to dream of cakes without cheese is good; those which have both signifie deceit and treason by a Welshman.”

One of the most common uses for magic cheese in the medieval and early modern periods was to identify thieves and murderers. First, the cheese would be blessed then fed to the suspect & the culprit would be unable to swallow the piece of cheese, thus admitting guilt.

In 14th-century Germany, biting a piece of bread and cheese and throwing it over your shoulder was meant to ensure fertility in a relationship.

Magical Correspondences: Completion, enhancing energy

Gods/Goddesses: Saturn

Elements: Air, Earth

Planets: Saturn

Zodiac: In general, Pisces. It must be said that different types of cheeses are associated with each zodiac sign.

Sabbats: Beltane, Imbolc