2023-09-06 06:22:23
The scented waters in the black bottles shouldn’t just smell good. Some ensure “inner clarity”, others promote erotic energy or awaken the “divine feminine” in people. “I’m proud of the scented oils and candles, I make them all myself,” says Brooke Mackay-Brock. The 42-year-old is dressed like her shop: black. Her profession: witch. “We also offer tourists here a first approach to witchcraft and the occult,” she says. The Black Moon Botanica shop on Edinburgh’s Candlemaker Row has tarot cards and occult books on black shelves, along with black bottles of cologne. Only every now and then a skull shines brightly between the odds and ends.
“Witchcraft has been thriving in Edinburgh for a couple of years,” says Mackay-Brock, which probably has something to do with the fact that Harry Potter was written in the city. But the woman insists: “I’ve been a witch since I was 11, work with plants, study astrology, have a lifelong interest in occult and esoteric practices.” It all fits in the Scottish capital. It looks a bit like a museum. There are no modern chain stores in the old town – instead there are more whiskey shops, souvenir shops and shops with sweaters and wool. And there is tourism between the centuries-old walls. Tour groups with disguised, loudly screaming guides jostle, bagpipe players in so-called full battle dress stand on every corner, and the castle towers 120 meters above all the alleys, the oldest walls of which date back to the 12th century. A cannon is fired there every day at 1 p.m.
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