The writings, ravings, inspirations, thoughts and musings of  a Traditional

The books, items, and authors listed below have been given my "Book Against the Wall Award" for being compendiums and purveyors of wildly inaccurate, shallow, or generally useless tripe to the fields of Northern Traditions, Traditional Witchcraft, History, Anthropology, and Pagan rooted Mystery Traditions in General. This criticism is not necessarily limited to the listed opuses.

This list could be far more complete, however, I thought that I would include the most egregious producers of worthless garbage and mindless tripe and let them serve, as Catherine Aird said "... as a horrible warning." The fact is that the vast majority of the authors who write about "wicca" and "witchcraft" have not the slightest idea what they're babbling about. They simply add their spin to a regurgitation of the previous pop-schlock author. A great many of these claim to be "progressive" in their thoughts, but a perusal of their output indicates that the only "progress" is one of watering down, soft soaping and floss sugaring something that these idiots cannot even begin to comprehend. Indeed, Jennifer Hunter is so "wise" in her post-teen knowledge that her opus has been known to fetch a whopping 29 cents on fetchbook. The postage to retrieve the pulp is greater than the actual cost. Others are simply grinding their personal axes or seeking self-aggrandizement. A second sad fact is that most pop-pagan publishers take no responsibility for the content of their catalogs. It would not strike me as odd, in the least, to find out that some teen fools had given themselves hideous rashes trying to fly with an ointment of aconite or indeed had unintentionally poisoned themselves with atropine looking for the "nine million victims" of the so-called "burning times." (The "burning times" is an empty fallacy perpetuated by politically-minded idiots, particularly in San Francisco.) Where would they get the ideas for such stupidity? From recipes published recklessly in "Teen Witch" paperbacks by irresponsible publicity seekers. Thus we come to the bottom line of the "popular pagan author" and find ourselves confronting an irresponsible publicity seeker who will happily tell the playstation-dulled mass audience anything they want to hear in order to move another $9.95 volume of tripe from a shelf. Caveat Emptor!