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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:49 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:51 am
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:52 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:29 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:46 am
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I haven't read, or even looked through this book, but I have Ann Moura's Grimoire for a Green Witch, which I picked up second hand. I don't think I'm going to be buying anything else of hers because her history is pretty sketchy. She claims it's a family tradition dating back to 1890-something (don't remember the exact year, and don't have my book here to check), but the rituals, and holidays, and such are really obviously heavily influenced by (presumably outer-court) Wicca...which was founded in the 1940s or 1950s. This doesn't add up, obviously, and makes anything else she claims about history suspect, in my opinion.
I've also heard she's very negative and disparaging about Christianity; though I haven't encountered this myself (the book I have being mostly point-form notes of rituals, spells, and correspondences), it's definitely something that would put me off her.
I also haven't found anything especially greener about her witchcraft tradition, so I think the name's a bit misleading. But that's me being nitpicky.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:55 am
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:01 am
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Katefox Tarnagona I haven't read, or even looked through this book, but I have Ann Moura's Grimoire for a Green Witch, which I picked up second hand. I don't think I'm going to be buying anything else of hers because her history is pretty sketchy. She claims it's a family tradition dating back to 1890-something (don't remember the exact year, and don't have my book here to check), but the rituals, and holidays, and such are really obviously heavily influenced by (presumably outer-court) Wicca...which was founded in the 1940s or 1950s. This doesn't add up, obviously, and makes anything else she claims about history suspect, in my opinion.
This is exactly my problem. Now I can accept that she's a member of a famtrad, but she implies her famtrad is consistent, and given what hers appears to contain, there's really no way it can be. I doubt very much that her mother, let alone her grandmother, were Pagan witches.
I don't have a problem with her adding a whole heap to what she's learned, but the way she implies it was passed down to her practically as is is dishonest.
She also wrote a history of witchcraft which is just abysmal, apparently (haven't read it myself), so on that basis I'd distrust anything she said regarding history.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:07 am
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Sanguina Cruenta Katefox Tarnagona I haven't read, or even looked through this book, but I have Ann Moura's Grimoire for a Green Witch, which I picked up second hand. I don't think I'm going to be buying anything else of hers because her history is pretty sketchy. She claims it's a family tradition dating back to 1890-something (don't remember the exact year, and don't have my book here to check), but the rituals, and holidays, and such are really obviously heavily influenced by (presumably outer-court) Wicca...which was founded in the 1940s or 1950s. This doesn't add up, obviously, and makes anything else she claims about history suspect, in my opinion. This is exactly my problem. Now I can accept that she's a member of a famtrad, but she implies her famtrad is consistent, and given what hers appears to contain, there's really no way it can be. I doubt very much that her mother, let alone her grandmother, were Pagan witches. I don't have a problem with her adding a whole heap to what she's learned, but the way she implies it was passed down to her practically as is is dishonest. She also wrote a history of witchcraft which is just abysmal, apparently (haven't read it myself), so on that basis I'd distrust anything she said regarding history.
I know take everything you read, with a bit of salt. I don't believe everything I read in her book. But, I got some good ideas. Such as Coming of Age rites, and Dedication.
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