If I read it correctly it's that last group that annoys you.
Yes. If they called themselves witches it would be fine by me, there is also no getting the horse back in the barn.
I'm told that it is very different in the UK - there are Pagans and there are Wiccans, and what they mean by Wicca over there is the initiatory kind, and no one who isn't of that has any issue with calling themselves simply Pagan.
I like how your Conservative groups would deal with it.
There ARE, I must point out, very serious and dedicated Pagan Witches out there who do research, who show their work, who get great results. I do not think they are inauthentic witches.
Some of them are of initiatory traditions which are specifically not derived from the same sources as Gardnerian Wicca (and its cousins, sometimes collectively known on this side of the pond as British Traditional Wicca/BTW) ... some of us (and them) refer to what they do as Traditional Initiatory Witchcraft/TIW - to confuse things, because of the stricter use of the word Wicca in the UK, TIW type paths are known there as British Traditional Witchcraft ... confusion abounds.
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Date: 2013-05-09 03:14 pm (UTC)Yes. If they called themselves witches it would be fine by me, there is also no getting the horse back in the barn.
I'm told that it is very different in the UK - there are Pagans and there are Wiccans, and what they mean by Wicca over there is the initiatory kind, and no one who isn't of that has any issue with calling themselves simply Pagan.
I like how your Conservative groups would deal with it.
There ARE, I must point out, very serious and dedicated Pagan Witches out there who do research, who show their work, who get great results. I do not think they are inauthentic witches.
Some of them are of initiatory traditions which are specifically not derived from the same sources as Gardnerian Wicca (and its cousins, sometimes collectively known on this side of the pond as British Traditional Wicca/BTW) ... some of us (and them) refer to what they do as Traditional Initiatory Witchcraft/TIW - to confuse things, because of the stricter use of the word Wicca in the UK, TIW type paths are known there as British Traditional Witchcraft ... confusion abounds.