Hi All i have been visiting this forum for many years although only rejoined a couple of years ago. I am a British traditional witch or cunning man, perhaps more accurately. I have been involved in this stuff my whole life specialising in the use of British Herbs and folk magic having worked alone and in groups for many years. I am very interested in indigenous beliefs and studied anthropology to look at the similarities and differences between religions and paths. It became a concern of mine when i first stated meeting new age practitioners in my early twenties how often people were heavily borrowing from others cultures and watering down the beliefs and practices into some sanitised version. Two things concerned me the lack of respect and the disregard for their own heritage, i pointed this out and found these peace loving people to be often aggressively uninterested in looking at their cultural appropriation
