Friendly reminder that Silver Ravenwolf and Ann Moura are BAD authors to learn about “legitimate witchcraft” from

paganaturewitch:

There’s tons of others questionable authors, but since these two market their books espicially towads newbies within the witchcraft community, I just wanna give the heads up to those newer witches that these two are NOT OK to take advice from.

Silver Ravenwolf:

• Strong anti christian rhetoric
• Very misinformed about the Satanic religion (looking at this critically, many are)
• She’s spread misinformation about the USA ethics law involving employment (i.e. she assumes employers can ask what potential employees religion is, which is a straight up NO, this CAN NOT happen legally)
• Bashes people who don’t believe they’re witches (not the charmed/harry potter/etc version, but those who believe in magik)
• Lack of credible sources
• Bizarre and possibly dangerous lies about the scientific community (like for some reason your friend/loved one dropping dead cause you cast a spell wrong ???)
• Encourages lying
• Pushes the elitist idea of “real witch” vs “not a real witch”
• Pushes Biblical misinterpretations of the “witch” (many Biblical academic and professional scholars say the term “witch” really resulted just from mass mistranslation over time)

*There’s a bunch of other issues with Silver, but this points out the big ones*

Ann Moura:

• Ann has a tendency to bash Christianity
• Ann has horribly missed the mark with historical things, despite being a high school history teacher (and having a masters degree in it). Many people complain that her ORIGINS OF MODERN WITCHCRAFT is more fantasy than actual history.
• Some of her “beginners books” are not easy to read.
• She claims to be a natural witch (3rd generation), this concept has had criticism by contemporary witches
• Poor editing styles and book organization
• Questionable dieties in relationship to specific spells (such as a goddess of chastity for pregnancy and birth)
• Doesn’t cite sources