Witches’ Brews

Reclaiming The Ancestral Wisdom That Lives in Our Bones
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Awaken What You Were Never Meant to Forget

There is a kind of knowing that doesn’t come from books. It hums beneath the surface—waiting. A recipe remembered by the hands, not the mind. A scent that brings tears to your eyes, and you don’t know why. A plant you recognize without having ever learned its name.

This is the wisdom in your bones.

And Witches’ Brews is here to help you reclaim it. Part ancestral guide, part spellbook, part kitchen companion, this richly woven collection invites you back into sacred relationship—with food, with land, with story, and with self.

This isn’t just a book about herbs and broth and potions— it’s a path back to the old ways that were almost forgotten… but never truly lost.

Witches’ Brews is an invitation to listen deeply. To cook, to stir, to bless, and to remember: You are the descendant of wise ones. Their wisdom lives in your bones.

What's Inside

Part ancestral guide, part spellbook, part kitchen companion, this richly woven collection invites you back into sacred relationship—with food, with land, with story, and with self.

Inside, you’ll find:

 

  • Herbal lore and plant remedies rooted in European folk tradition

  • Myth-infused recipes like Hedgerow Syrup, Weird Sisters’ Brew, and Safe Flying Ointment
  • Nourishing broths, seasonal teas, ancestral sauces, and elixirs for the body and spirit
  • Everyday kitchen rituals to reconnect with the land, the seasons, and your lineage
  • Reflections on animism, sacred homemaking, and the wisdom of the hearth
  • Practical guidance for infusing your days with ritual, reverence, and remembrance
  • Gentle support for culturally displaced souls seeking a way back to ancestral knowing
  • Invitations to listen deeply to the plants, the stories, and the wisdom in your bones

 

 

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Why Witches Brews?

Witches’ Brews is a key to what already lives in your bones— a remembering of something they tried to make us forget.

For generations, the wisdom of our wise women ancestors was suppressed, dismissed, or silenced. But like in the old fairy tales, the real magic was never truly lost. It went underground. It lived on in a drizzle of honey left for the fairies, superstitions, and soup spoons, in the quiet knowing that hums beneath the surface.

This book is part of the unlocking that wisdom, our ancestral inheritance.

In a world overflowing with kitchen witch guides and trendy potions, Witches’ Brews offers something different: a soulful, embodied invitation to remember your path. The magic here isn’t someone else’s, it’s here to guide you in finding yours.

Crafted by a mother, anthropologist, and ritualist living on the ancient island of Sardinia, this book weaves ancestral foodways, sacred homemaking, and everyday animism into a deeply rooted guide.

Whether you’re new to the Old Ways or deepening your path, inside you’ll find:

  • Folk herbalism through a mythic and ancestral lens

  • Old world kitchen magic and nourishing seasonal recipes

  • Reflections on animism, lineage, land connection, and ritual care

  • Invitations to remember what your wise ancestors once carried in plain sight

This book won’t teach you how to perform magic.

It will remind you how to live it.

Ready to Remember?

If something stirred in you while reading this page, a flicker of memory, a whisper from deep within, that’s the call of the Old Ways, awakening.

Witches’ Brews isn’t just a book to read. It’s a companion to cook with, cry with, scribble in, and come home to.

Join the circle of kindred spirits who are remembering too.

Let this be your invitation back to what was never truly lost.

Witches’ Brew is an invocation simmering on the hearth, asking us to infuse magic and mystery into our busy lives.

A portal for remembering our relationship to our ancestors who knew how to use what was readily available in the home to heal the heart, nourish the soul, and weave protective spells, this book explores domesticity with depth, cleaning with cunning. Jenn Campus offers readers simple yet powerful guidance to craft recipes and create rituals that are steeped in the wisdom of myth, history, cuisine, plant lore, folk healing, and everyday magic. She shows us that the ways we care for ourselves, our families, communities, and environment can be enriched by simply tending to our quotidian labors with mindful intention, a sprinkling of the sacred, and a peppering of poetry and prayer.

Shay DeGrandis, Herbalist

Jenn’s book reads like a warm whisper from the ancestors themselves. Reclaiming hearth witchery, Jenn’s writing brings context, creativity, and clear guidance to the journey of uncovering ancestral practices and rituals that nourish not only your spiritual self but also your physical and mental well-being. This is a must-read for anyone curious about animism, keeping a magical home, honouring spirits of place, or dipping a toe into kitchen witchcraft.

Hannah Forest, Herbalist

Witches’ Brews is a fantastic entry point for people who want to start exploring herbalism, ancestral cooking, and spiritual domesticity.

Peter Gilchrist, Food Historian at Tenement Kitchen, Your Content Goes Here

Witches Brews is a must-have herbal grimoire for anyone looking to connect with the old ways of their ancestors and bring ritual and enchantment to their everyday life. It is an inspiring combination of herbalism, mythology, and recipes. It invites you to wander through its pages like a story, while also serving as a reference you’ll want to return to again and again.

Jillian Erice, Host of Original Being Podcast & Integrative PA

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Jenn Campus is an American writer, anthropologist, and devoted practitioner of the Old Ways. Drawing from folklore, ancestral practices, and her life on the ancient island of Sardinia, her work helps the culturally displaced remember what lives in their bones.

She is the creator of Old Ways for Modern Days, a seasonal living library and community for those seeking to remember their ancestral wisdom and reconnect with land, lineage, and spirit.

With a background in anthropology, Jenn’s work blends academic curiosity with embodied, everyday practice. As a mother, she brings tenderness and lived experience to her exploration of traditional healing, folk magic, and the joy of remembering our place on the sacred web of life. Her writing draws from European cultural traditions, herbalism, culinary history, and animism.

She believes that our ancestors left us a blueprint for how to live well- if we remember to listen.

Witches’ Brews is both a love letter and a guidebook meant to be scribbled in, spilled on, and passed around. If this work has inspired or nourished you, please consider sharing it with a friend, a circle, or a family member. The magic grows stronger when it’s shared.

Jenn is also the author of A Guide to Celebrating the 12 Days of Yule (first published in 2017, with a second edition in 2023) and Love in Every Bite: The Secret to Cooking Healthy Food with Positive Energy (2016).

She lives with her husband and two children among the wild herbs, coastal winds, and hearth fires of the Mediterranean.