About Rue's Kitchen

Rue's Kitchen's primary mission is the preservation of customs and practices. Herein you will find traditional Italian (from various regions) witchcraft (stregoneria), folk magic (magia operativa), folk medicine (medicina popolare tradizionale), and old-fashioned Roman Catholic folk religion, (scongiuri, congiuri ed incantesimi), practiced, by Italians of all faiths, all over the world. You will also find information on customs, traditions, and heirloom recipes. Italian folk magic and witchcraft is an oral tradition handed down in the native languages and dialects of the practitioners. I am multilingual and therefore, it was important to me to preserve the information in their original languages and dialects. 

Why "Rue's Kitchen"? The kitchen, my kitchen, has always been the hub of many charms, rituals, healings, and celebrations.

This tradition is very rich, and in it will be found the magical and religious rituals and prayers for the outward expression of one's inner spirituality for every phase and condition of one's life. The practices of witchcraft, folk medicine, blessing rituals, and cooking are inextricably woven into the fabric of Italian culture -no matter where Italians are geographically located. Together, these components are vastly greater, and more intangible, than the sum of their parts thus, from both the practical and cultural standpoint, any effort to divorce one from the other, diminishes the tradition as a whole.

I am blessed to have learned at the feet of the great matriarchs of my family and community, and it is to them that I dedicate this website and my ongoing devotion to 'the things we do'.

About Rue

"Rue is both a traditional and Saint Magic healer. She breaks the stereotype of an uneducated person steeped in superstition. She is a registered nurse who combines skills as a psychic medium, natural health consultant and Reiki Master into her healing practice." Eric K. Lerner

Author | Diviner | Metaphysician | Occultist

Mary-Grace Fahrun a.k.a. Rue, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Italian immigrant parents and grew up in the Italian neighborhoods of Montreal and Connecticut. She is multilingual, primarily fluent in English, Italian, and French; she describes herself as “an avid keeper of customs, traditions, and secrets” and is an authority on Italian folk magic and folk healing traditions.