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What decade of life are you in?

newworldpellar:

what do you think?

I think someone that tries to call themselves “a cunning man\pellar” while living in America during the 21 century is too disingenuous to answer a question like this, nor would they think about why it was asked.

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Wiccans, stop trying to say your religion was made POPULAR by Gardner. It was invented by him. It's no older than that. Stop pretending your wiccan religion is older than it is.

gardnerians:

spiritscraft:

ophidiansabbat:

spiritscraft:

There is so much more to the story than an oversimplified, “Gardner made it up” line. First off that denigrates the role of important women who contributed to the liturgy of the tradition like Doreen Valiente. It erases the role of inspiration and direct gnosis too–the gods spoke to these witches directly about the nature of witchcraft. Secondly it relies on some outdated research. Thirdly it implies that tradition cannot be modified or added to. 

Try and read some newer research than stuff from the 90′s. I highly suggest checking out Philip Heselton’s books on Gardner. And then I would like you to consider the role of reconstruction in all witchcraft paths. Even if you are provided some old time tradition, it is only natural to supplement it with research and newer ritual formats that modern people relate to, which is what Gardner says he did in his own books.

Half the time people disprove claims Gardner never made. If you read his books he doesn’t say he has an ancient lineage, he only claims one a few hundred years old. He doesn’t claim he has an original book of shadows, he says he supplemented what he learned because it was very simple and fragmentary. And he directly mentions referencing older occult texts for fill in ancient mystery material.

The hip thing on tumblr and the internet is to call people frauds based on rumors rather than actual confirmed research. The claims against important figures gets worse every week, going from maybe this author or historian was mistaken to they were faking it all! Even better when the oh so authoritative claims are anon.

I am not a big defender of old Scire, particularly some of his methodology, but I must agree with @spirtscraft here, especially in regard to those last bits I took the liberty of bolding. I have seen quite a bit of this on tumblr, and between trad-ish practitioners as well. These individuals–often anonymously–set up these straw men assertions full of false assumptions or distorted claims in order to delegitimize the work or practices of others. If you’re going to attempt to refute the validity of someone else’s work or ideas, you’d better be prepared to do so based on the actual content of those ideas, and not what you purport them to be. Then again, doing so anonymously is a convenient sidestep around that.

Agreed, there is plenty of accurate things to dislike Gardner, lol.

We are Gardnerians, and we approve this message. 🙌🏻😜

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