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Overall, I don’t think it’s necessarily inherently “bad”, but I do agree that some things could be appropriation. I’ve noticed that commonly a lot of new-agey books of “Wicca” tend to pluck from closed practices like Vodou and Hoodoo, so a lot of those who are new may not be familiar with it enough to have that discrepancy. I know there has been lists made with authors that had books like that so people knew what to avoid.
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Why do you think 'appropriation' is a bad thing?
You can use whatever you like and desire, knowledge is there to be learnt and experienced, not to ignored due to its origin in cultures other than your own.
If that was the case, majority of western occultism wouldn't exist in same form it exists today.
A lot of religions or traditions of magic are syncretic after all.
This is of course only my opinion, not absolute truth
You can use whatever you like and desire, knowledge is there to be learnt and experienced, not to ignored due to its origin in cultures other than your own.
If that was the case, majority of western occultism wouldn't exist in same form it exists today.
A lot of religions or traditions of magic are syncretic after all.
This is of course only my opinion, not absolute truth
The problem becomes when they don't say thats what their taking it from and parrot it as their own unique thing.
If Wicca does have some spirtual roots with Vodou then they should say that. Or else it just looks like their taking from a disenfranchised group and saying it came only from them so they aren't associated with that group. Further fueling the myth of a certain culture being superior to another's.
When you take from every other culture and say its actually yours now then I guess that culture had nothing and it was yours all along.
Great.
They could atleast say which source they're taking each practice from and even ask the culture if its okay to use this source of culture so they can take it with another and create thier own practice. Of course with credit to them as being a part of their culture too.
If Wicca does have some spirtual roots with Vodou then they should say that. Or else it just looks like their taking from a disenfranchised group and saying it came only from them so they aren't associated with that group. Further fueling the myth of a certain culture being superior to another's.
When you take from every other culture and say its actually yours now then I guess that culture had nothing and it was yours all along.
Great.
They could atleast say which source they're taking each practice from and even ask the culture if its okay to use this source of culture so they can take it with another and create thier own practice. Of course with credit to them as being a part of their culture too.