Starweaver's Online Book Of Shadows: Ritual Hygiene Advice to Neophytes
Ritual Hygiene ... Advice to Neophytes
1. Never invoke Anyone you can't banish.
2. Never wear a white robe to Bacchanalian revels.
3. Never play "Fifty-Two Pickup" with your High Priest's Tarot deck during a reading.
4. Never give your real address to entities you've just met on the astral.
5. Never bring rancid shrimp dip to the Sabbat feast as a joke.
6. Never bring a ghetto blaster to a vision quest.
7. Never caress unidentified furry things at a dark ritual, unless you're very relaxed in your sexual tastes.
8. Never blow your nose on the sleeve of your neighbor's robe at your Initiation.
9. Never enter a Triangle of Manifestation because your accountant bets "The creature in there is some kind of optical illusion."
10. Never try to be cute by dropping asafoetida on the hot rocks in the sweat lodge.
11. Never make loud comments about the physical attributes of the High Priest/ess during skyclad rituals.
12. When the chalice comes around to you in circle, never gargle with the ritual wine.
13. Never carry your cauldron to the supermarket to use as a shopping basket.
14. Never sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" during the Great Rite.
15. Never tell Jehovah's Witnesses at your front door "Sorry I can't schmooze, I'm invoking Pagan deities downstairs."
16. Never claim to be Aleister Crowley's reincarnation unless you're sure the person standing next to you isn't.
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