Writing a paper on HIV is no fun

…So I won’t be talking about that here

What I did want to talk about is how many people think they’re Wiccan, when fact is… they’re not!

Ok, so these little teen fluffies think that they can call themselves Wiccan after reading a book by Silver Ravenwolf… and that’s it. That’s all they think they need.

First of all, in order for a person to be Wiccan, they need to be initiated into a lineaged coven so that they can learn all the oathbound material that they need to learn so that they can practice Wicca. Silver Ravenwolf is NOT a Wiccan. In her books, she has a lot of wrong information. For someone who has claimed that she has been initiated into a Wiccan coven, she should have had more accurate information. But no… she’s ass-raping the religion, shitting on it,  covering it with a shit-ton of glitter and fluff, wrongfully calling it Wicca… and then she sells it to impressionable teens.

Links on Ravenwolf to check out:

http://wicca.timerift.net/ravenwolf.shtml

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vanthal/608/id57.htm

http://www.ecauldron.net/opedtarnishedsilver.php

Second of all, people who are serious about learning about a religion cannot learn everything there is to learn about a religion by simply reading one book… I don’t know if I can say the same for Christianity because most Christians claim that everything a person has to learn is in their Bible, but some people can’t make up their minds whether to take it literally or figuratively, and there are books that can help with that, so I think you need more than the Bible to help you learn what Christianity is about. Plus, it takes a long time for someone to actually learn about a religion. People cannot learn about a religion in one sitting with some book, it’s impossible!

Those little fluffies still don’t get it though… Damn that Silver Ravenwolf and all those other similar authors for drilling all this bullshit into the heads of little teens just so that they can make lots of money… making the rest of us more-informed people clean up your messes.

Just to be clear, I’m not Wiccan. But I bet I can write a more decent and more well-informed book than those other impostors like Ravenwolf.

If anyone is interested in Wicca, these are suggestions for you. I found this list on Gaia (gaiaonline.com), posted by a user: Scorplett… a real Wiccan.

“scorplett”

My Suggested Reading list

WICCA ORIENTED AND BY REAL WICCAN AUTHORS

The Alex Sanders Lectures – Alex Sanders

Witchcraft Today – Gerald Gardner

The Meaning of Witchcraft – Gerald Gardner

A Witches Bible (or ‘What Witches Do and Eight Sabbat’s for Witches) – Stewart Farrar

Wicca- The Old in the New Age – Vivienne Crowley

Charge of the Goddess – Doreen Valiente

Circle of Fire – Sorita D’Este

Lid off the Cauldron – Patricia Crowther

Rebirth of Witchcraft – Doreen Valiente

Dancing with Witches – Lois Bourne

Religion Without Beliefs – Fred Lammond

NEO-PAGANISM AND ECLECTIC WITCHCRAFT

Witchcraft for Tomorrow – Doreen Valiente

Witchcrafting – Phillis Currot

Elements of Ritual – Deborah Lipp

Spiral Dance – Starhawk

Drawing Down the Moon – Margot Adler

Magical Rites from the Crystal Well – Ed Fitch

Coven Craft: Witchcraft for Three or More – Amber K

Ethics and the Craft – John J. Coughlin

The Truth About Witchcraft – Hanz Holzer

The Paganism Reader – Chas Clifton

TRADITIONAL WITCHCRAFT

Mastering Witchcraft – Paul Huson

Conversations with a Witch – Lois Bourne

The Forge of Tubal Cain – Ann Finnin

The Crooked Path Journal (Various Contributors)

Hedge Rider – Eric de Vries

Sorgitzak: Old Forest Craft – Veronica Cummer

ACADEMIC HISTORIES OF WICCA AND WITCHCRAFT

Triumph of The Moon – Ronald Hutton

Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival (also as: Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration: An Investigation into the Sources of Gardnerian Witchcraft)– Philip Heselton

Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca And Paganism in America – Chas S. Clifton

The Pickengill Papers-The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft – W.E. Liddell

WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN EUROPE: (a 6 Volume series), edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark

Vol 1 Biblical and Pagan Societies

Vol 2 Ancient Greece and Rome

Vol 3 The Middle Ages

Vol 4 The Period of the Witch Trials

Vol 5 The 18th & 19th Centuries

Vol 6 The 20th Century

Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing Edited by Marion Gibson

HISTORICAL WITCHCRAFT TEXTS

Malleaus Mallifacarum

The White Goddess – Graves

The new Golden Bough – Frazer

Aradia: Gospel of the Witches – Leyland

A Witchcult in Western Europe – Murray

REFERANCE TEXTS

ABC of Witchcraft – Doreen Valiente

The Witches God – Farrar

The Witches Goddess – Farrar

Spells to Change Your Life – Lois Bourne

Spells and how they work – Farrar

PSYCHOLOGY TEXTS (i.e Lots of Jung!)

Man and His Symbols – Carl Jung

The Undiscovered Self – Carl G. Jung

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious – Carl G. Jung

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle – Carl G. Jung

The Undiscovered Self – Carl G. Jung

Psychology and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series) – Carl G. Jung

BIOGRAPHIES

King of the Witches – June Johns

Fire Child: The Life & Magic of Maxine Sanders ‘Witch Queen’ – Maxine Sanders

Fifty Years of Wicca – Frederic Lammond

Diary of a Witch – Sybil Leek

Gerald Gardner: Witch – Jack L Bracelin

High Priestess – Patricia Crowther

Witch Amongst Us – Lois Bourne

Witches Speak – Aronld and Patricia Crowther [RARE BOOK]

CEREMONIAL MAGICK AND OCCULT/MYSTICISM TEXTS

Magick in theory and practice – Crowley

The Kabbalah unveiled – Mathers

The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic – Israel Regardie

The Training & Work of an Initiate – Dion Fortune

FICTION

Sea Priestess – Dion Fortune

High Magic’s Aid – Scire (Gerald Gardner)

Witches Were For Hanging (Paperback) FICTION – Patricia Crowther

OPEN SOURCE

There are a fair few books that are available open source if you don’t mind reading off a computer screen! Some of them might be a little heavy going for the beginner, but they are all classic texts on Wicca and Witchcraft

The Golden Bough

by Sir James George Frazer

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/index.htm

The Witch-Cult in Western Europe

by Margaret Alice Murray

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/wcwe/index.htm

Aradia; Gospel of the Witches

by Charles G. Leland

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/aradia/index.htm

Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition

by Charles Godfrey Leland

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/err/index.htm

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

by Sir Walter Scott

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/scott/index.htm

The Sorceress (La Sorcière) by Jules Michelet

translation by Afred Richard Allinson

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/sor/index.htm

Witchcraft Today (PDF) – by Gerald Gardner

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wisewoman/WiccaWitchcraftToday.pdf

The Meaning of Witchcraft – Gerald Gardner

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wisewoman/TheMeaningofWitchcraft.doc

High Magics Aid – A ‘fictional’ book by Gerald Gardner

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wisewoman/HighMagicsAid.doc

Gerald Gardner: Witch – attributed to Jack Bracelin but actually written by Idries Shah http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wisewoman/GeraldGardnerWitch[1].rtf

God of the Witches (PDF) – by Dr Margaret Murray,

http://www.thewica.co.uk/godwitch.pdf

The following are some rare and out of print books by the Crowthers.

The Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft With the Witches Tarot by Arnold Crowther (Hardcover – Jun 1974)

Witchcraft in Yorkshire by Patricia Crowther (Unknown Binding – 1973)

From Stagecraft to Witchcraft: The Early Years of a High Priestess by Patricia Crowther

The Zodiac Experience: Initiation Through the Twelve Signs – Patricia Crowther

~ by alexandriastrange on April 9, 2009.