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Summary: As Jimmy Stewart said:
Review: "We should call it, What Every Young Witch should Know and include a do it yourself kit." right before he slammed down the book on witchcraft in disgust in the 60's movie Bell Book and Candle.
It was intended to be a joke, then. And a good one. I mean, no one in their right mind would make something like that...
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Summary: Thought...
Review: $ilver Ravenwolf can not stop, and that is bad for those who are interested in Wicca. As I wrote in my review of Silver Broomstick, she writes not to entertain or inform, but for the $ilver she is named after.She already sanitizes Wicca to remove anything that might offend anybody with the slightest sentisitivities. That leaves fluff and light without substance, sugary, and much cuteness without anything beyond it, like a Fluffy Bunny. Then she abandons even the ethics her "blockbuster" trilogy managed to keep, when she wrote Teen Witch, which is nothing more than a spell book. No theology or ethics, even the sugary and watered down version she gave before. There really is nothing in the book. Now, get it while it's hot, get it here, an actual kit that will make you a witch. Extra Extra, you want fries with that witch kit? We got your pentagrams right here! No work, you're an instant Witch just because you bought this box. No, it doesn't work that way.
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Summary: Is this for real?
Review: Great! Just what the world needed, more garbage from ravenwolf. Oh boy!; a teen wicca kit! You get a genuine piece of string, a cheap quartz crystal, a cheap little pouch, some salt(oh boy!), and some cardboard you can pretend is an alter! Lets not forget the genuine plastic divination coin! Wow! I'm all set to go casting spells right now, just like Sabrina and those charmed chicks! The only thing lamer than this cheap kit is the people dumb enough to waste their money on it. Products like this cheapen what Paganism and Wicca is really all about.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: I admit it, when I first heard that this kit was coming out, Iwas really bothered. Not for the reasons most people seem to be bothered by it, but I was concerned about the quality of the items in it, that they would be poor quality. I also had to question the whole 'Insta-Witch' idea of the kit. Last night I actually saw the pentacle from the kit. Ah, no, I didn't like it. But I also had a chance to look at the book that comes with the kit. That wasn't too bad. I think there would be an interesting market were the book to be sold on its own. Perhaps Silver's Spells for Teens. And about the comment of the spell involving Ma'at, yes I looked at that too. Considering it is meant to be used with the idea that justice truly is blind and Silver even cautions against using it if your hands are not clean, I found nothing at all 'bad' about it. Like I said, I hope that the book gets offered on its own. For the rest of the stuff...who knows...
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Summary: This kit is CURSED!
Review: I bought this kit a few years ago, when I was first learning Wicca. First off, the kit wasn't much help to me, so I put it under my bed. After awhile, my computer started to go haywire and no one (I had at least 4 different people look at my computer - all of which have great computer knowledge) could figure out what was happening to my computer. So my friend told me about what happened when she had the kit and she told me to bury it in the backyard, and so I did. A few days later, my computer started working again!!
So please, unless you want serious and unexplained mechanical problems, do NOT buy this product!!! If you already own it and haven't done so already, bury it far, far away from the house, or you too will get mechanical problems!
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Summary: A review from a...Wiccan
Review: I think Silver Ravenwolf might have had good intentions when she came out with this but it's such a cheesy idea. It's like a 'Become a Born again Christian for Dummies' book or an 'All you'll ever need to be Jewish' kit. or 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Islam'. It stupid you can't buy relgion or spirituality in a card board box. If you want to be a Wiccan you can reasearch it and then at flea-markets and used stores pick up special items that speak to you. At a store in the mall I found my Athame, I didn't buy it in any kit I just picked it because it felt right.
I think this Teen Witch kit will most likely be bought by rebelious teens (or teens that just want to be cool) that don't want to really grow spiritualy. I'm not saying that description fits everyone who buys it.
To the person who their friend's parents would not let them buy Wiccan/Goth items or let dress like a Wiccan. Goth is not the same as Wicca. Anyone who wears a plate sized pentacle and dresses in black is not a Wiccan. 'Goth' is wearing dark make-up and black clothing, it has nothing to do with spirituality.
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Summary: Thought...
Review: I'm kind of new to all this wicca 'stuff'. It just keeped turning up so i took it as a sign. From what i have read (i've done hours a day researching both on and off the internet)ture wicca it mostly of you own power and items are used to channel that power. So you could do most things without the items. I think this would be good for people who want to learn to channel that power if their a beginner.
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Summary: a waste of money
Review: this is a waste of money only a crazy person would buy this.
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Summary: there are a lot of reviwes here but you should read this one
Review: this kit is a travesty to the pagan or wiccan religion. you can't stuff spirituality into a cardboard box. i have given many workshops about this kit, and i'll tell you exactly what you are paying for; one tiny velveteen pouch, one quartz crystal, one plastic "divination coin" (?) one plastic "god/ goddess coin" (??) a tiny plastic bag of salt, a piece of string, and a flimsy cardboard altar, which goddess forbid, you actually wanted to put a candle on your altar to represent, i don't know, fire? you would burn the house down. this is sheer capitalism, and i am not saying that to be mean, we are americans, it is how we are. i have met ms. ravenwolf and she is very nice, but this is not her grandest idea. all of my friends that own pagan supply stores have discontinued carrying her products. if there is witchcraft in a box why not mormonism in a bottle or christianity in a bag? because you can't buy religion that's why. though this kit DOES comes with a book complete with spells like "how to turn you busdriver into a toad". this gives us a terrible name and no one can turn anyone into a toad! for people who dont know anything about our religion, when they pick up this box is this what they should see we are abaout? cardboard and plastic, and toad spells? all for $24.99. what a deal, you might as well sell your self worth. please if you want to learn about wicca buy some books, study, and listen to your intuition. plastic tools and cardboard altars are simply not needed to be spiritual. don't waste your money thinking you need to have every tool in order to find the goddess. it takes an entire lifetime to gather all your tools, they will come to you when you are ready. all the magick you will ever possess is already within you, you just need to take time to practice and access it. please buy yourself a good book with your money, not this.
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Summary: Doubtful.
Review: This kit is useful if you want to perform (or attempt to perform) certain spells without going out and buying expensive altar supplies, but it makes the mistake of leading people into believing that owning the kit will make you a witch. I am a 15-year-old witch with a lot of witch friends. Let me tell you that witchcraft is not about having all this stuff in your room and casting a bunch of spells. Those things go along with being a witch, but you do not have to do/own them to be a witch. Being a witch simply requires spirituality, faith, an understanding of magick, god/esses, the holidays, etc., and obeying the basic witch rules. Take this rather excellent example: I have a friend who is a witch, but her parents, through typical ignorance and miscomprehension, do not allow her to dress like the rest of us, buy anything remotely craft-related (or anything gothic, either, because they seem to see all of our qualities as evil in some way), etc. But because she believes she is a witch, she is one. And that is something they can never stop her from doing/being. That is the essential rule: If you truly believe you are a witch, you probably are. But if buying a piece of cardboard with little moons and stars on it, along with a couple of child's-toy-like supplies and just two good, solid things, a book and a pentacle, makes you feel like a witch, well, that's one exception. This kit is cute but it's not "everything you need to make magick." You already HAVE everything you need to make magick. This is almost an insult because it's so much like a little set you'd buy at Toys R Us to play around with. It misses the point and won't make you a witch.
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