Shaving Bunnies: Doing Your Research 101

Last updated on: June 2, 2010 at 6:49 pm by ladyfaeryducks

Shaving Bunnies: Doing Your Research 101 2010-06-02T18:49:39-04:00 ladyfaeryducks

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Helllloooooooo Baby Pagani!

Here at Paganism 101 we do insist on a bit of research. No excuses for sloppy ignorance here!

Almost any rumor you have heard about Pagan religions can be easily put to rest with a little digging on the internet. You know what that is, you’re using it to read this blog! It’s the place where the e-mail is!

For instance, I go to that handy little search box and type in “burning times”. Ah la, the first three links debunk most of the myths surrounding the “burning times”, from Religious Tolerance, Wikipedia and Wicca For The Rest Of Us. See how easy that was? Google ‘er once and see how much smarter you are?

With another flurry of fingers we type “Margaret Murray” into our little search box and discover, though inventive and clever, her theories on Witchcraft are what C. L. Ewen calls “vapid balderdash”. Two myths dispelled quick as the twitch of my grandmother’s rowan-tree wand! (She used it to stir soups and bonk me on the head for being presumptuous.)

Ah dears I could regale you with examples, but then you’d miss out on all the fun yourself! Imagine your delight when your discover the LBRP is based on the Judeo-Christian mythos and that Isis may have posed for the first portraits of the Virgin Mary! Oh the juicyness of who cribbed from whom and who started what when!

Being a clever little Pagani is easy when you use your search box and read before you speak. Why there are even pronunciation guides for all those pesky Pagan words like Asatru, athame and Manawydan fab Llyr if you just do a wee bit of digging.

Take the time dears to practice your research as often as your spells. Eris is a lovely name but you might want to find out a bit about her before you ask her to bless your marriage bed!

Fight the fluff!

Lady Hippogriff Faeryducks

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