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properties of the ingredients, and you get to take home your own hand made incense. Whether
you're an absolute beginner or a return visitor it is always worth doing and excellent value for
money. And I challenge you to leave without buying anything from Mandy's shop!
By Libby Hood
Editors note: And now for something completely different! Just to show we are able to laugh
at ourselves, and certainly no disrespect meant to anyone as we have every conceivable
lineage amongst our membership!
An amusing thread following a discussion on a
'Wiccan' facebook page
(names have been changed to protect the innocent … and the guilty!)
Following a discussion on a Wiccan Facebook page back in November of 2012 in which some
members are hell bent on the importance of 'lineage' ie. you cannot be called 'Wiccan' unless
you have been initiated into a coven and the initiators lineage goes back to Gerald Gardner.
Gardnerian and Alexandrian wicca are accepted by the group but anything else is not the 'real
deal'.