Sweetgrass (Wiingashk) 🌾 Bringing in the Good, Braiding Lore, Sacred Uses | Ditch Witch Diaries

Описание: Sweetgrass—known as Wiingashk, Holy Grass, or Grass of the Spirit—is a sacred plant used across Indigenous North American, European, and Slavic traditions to invite good energy, harmony, ancestors, and right relationship. Unlike harsher cleansing plants, sweetgrass does not banish; it calls in.

In this video, we explore sweetgrass through history, cultural teachings, and traditional use: why it is braided, how it is gathered with care, and how it has been used in prayer, ceremony, home blessing, and everyday sacred life. We’ll look closely at Anishinaabe, Lakota, Cree, Blackfoot, and European Christian folklore, including its role in Corpus Christi celebrations, women’s ceremonial traditions, water offerings, and peace-making practices.

We’ll also cover sweetgrass’s gentle medicinal uses, magickal correspondences, offerings, and practical ways to work with it respectfully in modern spiritual practice—always honoring that this plant is given, not taken.

This episode is for those seeking to ring in the good, cultivate emotional truth, and practice spirituality rooted in humility, relationship, and care.

00:00 – Bringing in the Good: Introduction to Sweetgrass
00:36 – Names, Species & Parts Used
02:49 – Why Sweetgrass Is Braided
03:06– Anishinaabe Teachings: Wiingashk as Mother Earth’s Hair
04:34 – Lakota, Dakota & Cree Braiding Symbolism
07:36 – Indigenous North American Ceremonial Use
08:30 – Everyday Sacredness: Homes, Children & Community
09:24 – European & Christian “Holy Grass” Traditions. Corpus Christi deep dive.
13:07 – Żubrówka, Bison Lore & Animal Wisdom
16:04 – Sweetgrass as Alignment, Not Confrontation
18:15 – Prayers & Spoken Gratitude Across Traditions
19:47 - Water Mothers - grows at liminal wetlands on edges of water
30:39– Medicinal Uses & Coumarin
31:41 – Magickal Correspondences & Archetypes
34:02 – Offerings, Water Work & Ancestor Practices
35:38 – Practical Ways to Work with Sweetgrass Respectfully
37:20 – Closing: Invitation, Relationship & Care

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