Paying for Pagani$m

Late last night before going to bed I came across an email advertising one year of Witch Training for the low price of only 1100 dollars. After picking my jaw up off the floor in disbelief my next emotion was anger. Not only was someone charging what I felt was an outrageous amount of money to teach The Craft, their email announcement was flanked by two quotes from Doreen Valiente’s Charge of the Goddess. In British Traditional Witchcraft (of which I’m a Gardnerian initiate of) you don’t charge for teaching Wicca, and here’s someone using quotes from Valiente to advertise paid teaching! Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft and the Craft’s chief liturgist . . . to use her words in an advertisement horrified me.