Is the Stang Biblical or Occult? A Warning About Witchcraft Tools
Stang / Gwelen Exposed: A Biblical Warning About Witchcraft Staffs, Ritual Tools, and Occult Power
The stang, also called a forked ritual staff, is used in some forms of traditional witchcraft, pagan ritual, and occult practice. In some Cornish witchcraft descriptions, a related staff is called a gwelen. It is often described as a ritual pole or staff used to invoke, direct, send, or focus occult power.
To someone unfamiliar with witchcraft, it may look like an ordinary walking stick, branch, or forked wooden staff. But in occult practice, it can become a ritual tool, altar, symbol of spiritual authority, and focal point for witchcraft workings.
Christians must understand that occult tools are not neutral when they are dedicated, used, or empowered for witchcraft.
The Bible warns clearly against witchcraft, divination, sorcery, enchantments, consulting spirits, and every form of forbidden spiritual practice.
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 says that God’s people must not practice divination, witchcraft, enchantments, consulting familiar spirits, wizardry, or seeking the dead. These things are called abominations to the Lord.
What Is a Stang / Gwelen?
A stang is usually a forked staff or Y-shaped branch used as a ritual tool in traditional witchcraft. Some witches use a naturally forked branch. Others attach antlers or a forked metal head to a pole.
In witchcraft settings, the stang may represent:
- The Horned God
- The witch father or witch mother
- Male and female occult forces
- The World Tree
- The crossroads
- The axis between earth and spirit realms
- A ritual altar
- A marker for the witchcraft compass or circle
- A tool to direct or summon power
- A connection point to land spirits or familiar spirits
Some witches place the stang in the north, behind the altar, or in the center of a ritual compass. It may be decorated with ribbons, bones, flowers, charms, cords, animal parts, symbols, or seasonal items.
The gwelen is described in some Cornish witchcraft material as a staff or forked ritual pole used to invoke, call upon powers, send powers, mark out the compass, and serve as a focal point or altar.
This is not biblical worship. This is occult practice.
Where Did the Stang / Gwelen Come From?
The use of staffs, rods, poles, wands, and ritual objects is ancient. Pagan priests, shamans, magicians, witches, druids, and occult practitioners have used ritual tools for thousands of years to symbolize power, authority, spirit contact, fertility, protection, divination, or magical intent.
However, the modern witchcraft stang as a specific forked staff is often associated with traditional witchcraft and became especially known through modern witchcraft circles in the twentieth century. Some sources point to Robert Cochrane, a British witchcraft figure connected with Cochrane’s Craft and the Clan of Tubal Cain, as a major influence in popularizing or shaping the modern witchcraft use of the stang.
The stang is not one single ancient biblical object. It is a ritual tool used in occult systems, especially modern traditional witchcraft, folk magic, paganism, and ceremonial workings.
The gwelen appears in Cornish witchcraft descriptions as a ritual staff used for invoking and directing power.
Whether called stang, gwelen, staff, rod, wand, pole, or ritual branch, the issue is the same: when an object is dedicated to witchcraft, spirit work, spell casting, invoking powers, or occult ritual, it becomes an unclean object.
Who Is the Founder?
There is no single founder of all ritual staffs because the use of ritual rods and staffs is ancient. However, the modern stang in traditional witchcraft is commonly connected to Robert Cochrane, who was influential in modern British traditional witchcraft.
Robert Cochrane promoted a form of witchcraft distinct from Gardnerian Wicca and is often associated with the Clan of Tubal Cain. Some modern witchcraft writers and practitioners connect the stang with his tradition and influence.
The gwelen does not appear to have one recognized founder. It is associated with Cornish witchcraft language and practice.
But for Christians, the founder is not the main issue. The spiritual function is the issue. If a tool is used to invoke powers, call spirits, mark a witchcraft compass, represent pagan gods, or direct occult energy, it is forbidden.
Is the Stang / Gwelen New Age, Witchcraft, or Occultism?
The stang/gwelen is primarily connected to witchcraft, paganism, traditional craft, folk magic, occultism, and spirit work.
It may be used in practices involving:
- Casting a circle or laying a compass
- Invoking spirits or powers
- Calling on pagan gods or goddesses
- Honoring the Horned God
- Working with land spirits
- Directing energy
- Sending power
- Spell work
- Ritual offerings
- Seasonal pagan rituals
- Ancestor work
- Spirit journeying
- Familiar spirit contact
- Witchcraft altars
- Divination rituals
- Binding or cursing rituals
- Protection spells
- Ritual authority in a coven
This is witchcraft and occultism, not biblical faith.
Exodus 22:18 says, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
Galatians 5:19–21 lists witchcraft among the works of the flesh and warns that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 21:8 warns that sorcerers will have their part in the lake of fire.
God does not take witchcraft lightly.
Why Is the Stang / Gwelen Against God’s Word?
The stang/gwelen is against God’s Word when it is used as a witchcraft ritual tool to call upon spirits, direct power, invoke pagan gods, mark sacred occult space, or participate in spell work.
God forbids His people from practicing witchcraft, sorcery, divination, enchantments, and familiar spirit contact.
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 says:
“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch…”
Leviticus 19:31 says not to seek familiar spirits because they defile.
Isaiah 8:19 says, “Should not a people seek unto their God?”
A Christian does not need a ritual staff to access spiritual power. A Christian has authority only through Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the blood of Jesus, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Luke 10:19 says Jesus gives authority over the power of the enemy.
Mark 16:17 says believers shall cast out devils in Jesus’ name.
Acts 19:18–19 shows that when people came to Christ, they confessed their occult practices and burned their magic books. They did not keep their occult tools for decoration, curiosity, or sentimental value.
What Is a Stang / Gwelen Used For?
In witchcraft and occult practice, the stang/gwelen may be used for:
- Marking out a ritual circle or compass
- Acting as a portable altar
- Representing the Horned God or pagan deities
- Invoking spirits, gods, ancestors, or powers
- Directing occult energy
- Sending power during spell work
- Serving as a ritual center point
- Holding charms, cords, offerings, or symbolic objects
- Acting as a spiritual boundary marker
- Representing the World Tree or connection between realms
- Supporting seasonal pagan rituals
- Spirit journeying
- Land-spirit work
- Witchcraft initiation or coven ritual
- Cursing, binding, protection, or manifestation work
Some may claim it is only symbolic. But symbols used in witchcraft are not spiritually empty when they are tied to spirits, rituals, covenants, altars, or occult intention.
Why Would Someone Get Involved With the Stang / Gwelen?
People may become involved with stangs, ritual staffs, or witchcraft tools for many reasons:
- Curiosity about witchcraft
- Desire for power
- Desire for spiritual authority
- Interest in paganism or traditional craft
- Fascination with nature spirituality
- Attraction to the Horned God or goddess worship
- Rebellion against Christianity
- Trauma from religious experiences
- Desire to control circumstances
- Seeking protection through spells
- Wanting identity or belonging in a coven
- Interest in ancestral or folk magic
- New Age influence
- Social media witchcraft trends
- Desire to feel special, chosen, or spiritually powerful
Many people enter witchcraft because they feel powerless, rejected, wounded, angry, or spiritually hungry. Witchcraft offers a counterfeit form of control.
But the power behind witchcraft is not the Holy Spirit. It is demonic.
Acts 8 tells of Simon the sorcerer, who amazed people with sorcery. But when the gospel came, his spiritual power was exposed as something that could not be mixed with the power of God.
How Does the Stang / Gwelen Hurt a Christian Who Dabbles With It?
A Christian who dabbles with a stang, gwelen, wand, ritual staff, witchcraft altar, or occult tool is entering forbidden spiritual territory.
1. It Opens Doors to Witchcraft Spirits
A ritual tool dedicated to witchcraft can become a contact point for demonic spirits, familiar spirits, and occult power.
2. It Creates Agreement With Pagan Gods
Many stangs are linked to the Horned God, goddess worship, land spirits, or pagan deity systems. This violates the command to have no other gods before the Lord.
Exodus 20:3 says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
3. It Defiles the Home
Keeping occult tools in the home can bring spiritual contamination. Cursed objects can attract demonic activity.
4. It Brings Spiritual Confusion
A Christian may begin mixing Scripture with witchcraft, prayer with spells, and Holy Spirit authority with occult tools.
5. It Opens Doors to Familiar Spirits
Witchcraft tools are often used to communicate with unseen spirits. This can invite familiar spirits into a person’s life and bloodline.
6. It Can Bring Fear and Torment
After contact with witchcraft objects, people may experience fear, nightmares, heaviness, oppression, strange manifestations, or spiritual attacks.
7. It Can Lead to Deeper Occult Bondage
A person may begin with curiosity about a staff, then move into spells, tarot, crystals, rituals, spirit guides, divination, cursing, and coven involvement.
8. It Dishonors Jesus Christ
A Christian cannot serve Jesus while using tools dedicated to witchcraft power.
First Corinthians 10:21 says, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils…”
What Curses Can Come on a Christian Through the Stang / Gwelen?
When a Christian uses, owns, makes, buys, inherits, or participates in rituals involving a witchcraft stang/gwelen, they may open doors to curses and demonic oppression.
Possible curses and spiritual consequences include:
- Curse of witchcraft
- Curse of sorcery
- Curse of divination
- Curse of familiar spirits
- Curse of pagan worship
- Curse of idolatry
- Curse of false gods
- Curse of occult bondage
- Curse of ritual defilement
- Curse of cursed objects
- Curse of altar contamination
- Curse of spirit attachment
- Curse of land-spirit or nature-spirit involvement
- Curse of the Horned God or goddess worship
- Curse of rebellion against God
- Curse of spiritual confusion
- Curse of fear and torment
- Curse of nightmares and night attacks
- Curse of double-mindedness
- Curse of generational witchcraft
- Curse of coven ties
- Curse of occult initiation
- Curse of spell work, binding, or cursing
- Curse of demonic power exchange
Galatians 3:13 says Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. But believers must repent, renounce, destroy occult objects, and close the doors they opened.
Scriptures Warning Against Witchcraft Tools and Occult Practices
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 — God forbids witchcraft, divination, enchantments, and consulting spirits.
Leviticus 19:31 — Familiar spirits defile.
Exodus 20:3 — Have no other gods before the Lord.
Exodus 22:18 — God condemns witchcraft.
Galatians 5:19–21 — Witchcraft is a work of the flesh.
Revelation 21:8 — Sorcerers face judgment.
Isaiah 8:19 — God’s people must seek Him, not spirits.
Acts 8:9–24 — Simon the sorcerer was rebuked.
Acts 19:18–19 — Converts destroyed their occult materials.
1 Corinthians 10:21 — You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils.
2 Corinthians 6:17 — Come out from among them and be separate.
Ephesians 5:11 — Have no fellowship with the works of darkness.
1 John 4:1 — Test the spirits.
Luke 10:19 — Jesus gives authority over the enemy.
Mark 16:17 — Believers cast out devils in Jesus’ name.
What Should a Christian Do If They Have a Stang / Gwelen?
If you have a stang, gwelen, wand, ritual staff, witchcraft altar object, charm, pagan tool, or any object used in occult practice, do not keep it as decoration. Do not sell it or give it to someone else.
Repent for involvement with witchcraft. Renounce every spirit connected to the object. Remove it from your home. Destroy it if possible, just as Acts 19 shows believers removing occult materials from their lives.
Then pray out loud:
“Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I repent for any involvement with the stang, gwelen, witchcraft staffs, wands, ritual tools, pagan altars, occult objects, spell work, spirit work, or any witchcraft practice. I renounce every agreement with witchcraft, sorcery, divination, familiar spirits, pagan gods, the Horned God, goddess worship, land spirits, covens, rituals, and occult power. I break every curse, covenant, dedication, initiation, and altar tie connected to these objects and practices. I close every door I opened knowingly or unknowingly. I command every spirit connected to witchcraft, occult tools, familiar spirits, false gods, and cursed objects to leave me now in the name of Jesus Christ. I ask the Lord Jesus to cleanse me by His blood and fill my home, body, soul, and spirit with the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
Final Warning
The stang/gwelen may look like a simple forked staff, but in witchcraft it can become an altar, symbol of pagan power, ritual tool, spirit-contact point, and object used to direct occult energy.
Christians must not play with witchcraft tools.
Christians must not keep ritual objects dedicated to darkness.
Christians must not mix prayer with spells, Scripture with occult power, or Jesus Christ with pagan spirits.
You do not need a staff to access power.
You need Jesus Christ.
You do not need witchcraft tools.
You need the Holy Spirit.
You do not need rituals.
You need repentance, obedience, deliverance, and the Word of God.
If you have been involved with stangs, wands, ritual staffs, witchcraft tools, pagan altars, divination, spell work, familiar spirits, or occult practices, you may need deliverance.
Read more about biblical curses here:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/the-seven-biblical-curses-listed-in-the-bible
Visit the comprehensive Occult List here:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/occult-checklist
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Ordained Minister, Public Speaker
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Have you heard of a stang or gwelen?
It may look like a simple forked staff, but in witchcraft it is used as a ritual tool, altar, and symbol of occult power.
Witches may use it to mark a ritual compass, call on spirits, represent the Horned God, direct energy, send power, or focus witchcraft workings.
But the Bible is clear. Deuteronomy 18 warns God’s people not to practice witchcraft, divination, sorcery, or consult familiar spirits.
Christians do not need ritual staffs, wands, spells, or occult tools. We have authority only through Jesus Christ.
If you have owned or used witchcraft tools, repent, renounce them, remove them from your home, and close every door in Jesus’ name.
Read the full article and visit the Occult Checklist at Touch of God Int’l Ministries.
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What is a stang or gwelen? In witchcraft, the stang is often a forked ritual staff used as a spiritual tool, altar, symbol of occult authority, and focal point for witchcraft rituals. In some Cornish witchcraft descriptions, a gwelen is also described as a ritual staff used to invoke powers, send powers, mark the compass, or serve as a focal point.
In this teaching, Teresa Morin exposes why Christians must reject witchcraft tools, ritual staffs, pagan altars, spirit work, and occult objects.
The Bible warns against witchcraft, divination, sorcery, familiar spirits, and pagan worship. Christians do not need occult tools. We need Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, repentance, and deliverance.
Read the Seven Biblical Curses article:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/the-seven-biblical-curses-listed-in-the-bible
Visit the comprehensive Occult List:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/occult-checklist
See all programs, free ebooks, and schedule a one-on-one deliverance session:
https://linktr.ee/teresamorin
🌐 Touch of God Int’l Ministries of Healing and Deliverance
https://www.touchofgod.org
Teresa Morin
President and Founder
Ordained Minister, Public Speaker
Featured in Who’s Who Press Release
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A stang or gwelen may look like a forked staff, but in witchcraft it can be used as a ritual tool, altar, and symbol of occult power.
Witches may use it to invoke spirits, mark the compass, direct energy, honor pagan gods, or focus spell work.
The Bible warns against witchcraft and familiar spirits. Christians do not need occult tools—we need Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Visit the Occult Checklist:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/occult-checklist
More resources and deliverance sessions:
https://linktr.ee/teresamorin
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A stang or gwelen may look like a simple forked staff, but in witchcraft it can be used as a ritual tool, altar, and symbol of occult power.
Witches may use it to mark a ritual compass, invoke spirits, represent the Horned God, direct energy, send power, or focus spell work. But God’s Word clearly warns against witchcraft, sorcery, divination, familiar spirits, and pagan worship.
Christians do not need ritual staffs, wands, spells, or occult tools. We need Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, repentance, obedience, and deliverance.
Read the full article and visit the comprehensive Occult List:
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/occult-checklist
Also read: The Seven Biblical Curses Listed in the Bible
https://www.touchofgod.org/post/the-seven-biblical-curses-listed-in-the-bible
See all programs, free ebooks, and schedule a one-on-one deliverance session:
https://linktr.ee/teresamorin
Teresa Morin
President and Founder of Touch of God Int’l Ministries of Healing and Deliverance
Ordained Minister, Public Speaker
Featured in Who’s Who Press Release
