(August 17, 2023 at 8:15 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: To some extent, and especially at that time, they were interchangeable. A single publisher, Llewellyn, created that impression and market. They had a ready made stable of authors. Scott Cunningham, Silver Ravenwolf. Raymond fucking Buckland. If you wanted a side hustle worth serious coin, wiccan detritus on etsy goes for many times more than identical products...on etsy.
If you can sell mint to kroger or some lovesick teenager trying to fashion a love charm, pick the second option.
I bought a book many years ago that discussed various symbolic pictures and constructions. Pagan, tarot, etc. Just went and looked, can't find it. I bought it because I could see a ready market for the sort of suckers who buy what I could make and sell. But at the bottom of my being, I couldn't see fleecing people for their stupid beliefs. #thuspoor
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.