Hi, my name is Ariana Carrasca, or you can call me Ari. I started a magical and pagan journey over a decade ago, having been raised in the craft. My practice is focused on East Anglian folk magic, with elements of Brittonic polytheism attuned into my spirituality. I’m an Ecologist with a speciality in botany and habitat classification, which blends into my folk witchcraft where I love connecting to the land and its spirits.

Four years ago, I decided to start making educational witchcraft and paganism content on YouTube under the channel “The Oak Witch”, aiming to help not just beginners, but any magical practitioners at any stage in their journey. I teach basic magical practices, spellcraft and pagan topics using an accessible and researched approach, discussing particular topics highlighted in my own craft such as English folk magic and environmentally-friendly witchcraft and paganism.

Upon walking this oaken path, I further expanded my teaching into writing projects, where I have published beginner-oriented witchcraft and pagan articles in places such as here and for the Pagan Dawn magazine, contributed to other books and have my own release coming out in August 2024. I’m very excited to show the world “Spellcraft and Spellwork: A Guide to the Magical Practice of Spells”, and show what else I have in store in the future.