What The Court Record means
Trial records are where claims about witchcraft history are tested. They show how accusations spread through communities and how often stories outran facts.
Documentation can protect people. Write things down and check claims against their sources. In shadow, remember who held the pen. A record can be accurate and still be unkind.
I check the story against the record.
When The Court Record appears in a reading
The Court Record is the deck's fact-checker. When this card appears, it asks me to check a claim I have been carrying against its source, and to write things down so I am not relying on memory or rumor. Most of what I repeat, I have never traced.
The other edge is humility about the page itself. Every record was written by someone with a view, and accuracy is not the same as fairness. The card asks for documentation and for a clear look at who wrote it.
One small act of tending
Take one claim you have been repeating and find where it came from. Write down what the source actually says.
The Court Record in the Hearth Reading
The Hearth & Hedge guidebook’s three-card spread sorts one situation into what to guard, what to release, and what to feed. In each position this card tends to say:
- Protect. Protect yourself with a written record.
- Clear. Clear the claim you never checked.
- Tend. Find the source of one thing you keep repeating.
Journal prompts
- What claim in my life needs to be checked against a source?
- Whose pen wrote the record I am trusting?