• Seek Peace. Any violence that causes suffering, especially murder, exacts a toll that can age or kill the witch. The wands themselves will also resist destructive energy and will be damaged.
• Protect the Coven by finding ways to cooperate within, and without. If discovered, disappear. Curiosity, disputes and accidents raise too much attention.
• Live in the Natural Path. By taking care of the environment, natural resources are easy to find. Edible plants appear in their paths. Predators will never harm a good witch or her familiars. Animals in need of aid or company will seek out the witch and help with gathering nuts, vegetables and fruit and milk. Egg-layers will even offer some of their extra eggs.
• Do not bring men to the Coven. Human male energy is disruptive to the first three rules. Most witches chose to be single, others would go meeting non-magical friends in untraceable places. Forget-me spells were a required skill.
• Admit children with aptitudes. Wild witches played an important role to save the lives of children who had been cast out. Very young ones would be given to homes that needed a child. Older ones could choose to join a Coven, or be helped to forget and rejoin the colonies.

You may have heard that witches can only have one familiar, a spirit is a demon that takes an animal form. But that is not our understanding. Many wild witches of the Northeast are believed to be descended from the Gypsy peoples of Southern and Northern Europe. Their abilities to bond with nature are reported to come from the rituals of their original countries.

One of the very few items that wild witches prized in dealing with the colonials are glass eyes which were typically made in Italy, but sometimes come from Egypt, Greece and China. A wild witch would invite an animal to be a familiar. If the animal consented, then they would sit together with the wand, and the witch established a psychic bond through one or more of the eyes. A familiar so bound gained knowledge and intelligence from the wild witch as much as the witch learns the ways of the animal.

These familiars lived longer-than-normal lives under her protection. The structure of the glass eye itself did not matter to the bonding, although some familiars may have preferred a particular type of glass eye that resembled their own. If there were more than one familiar to be bound to the wand, the wild witch had to assure that all of the familiars could get along before sealing the bonds.