At first glance, I wasn’t sure what I thought about this site. Needless to say, I formed a pretty firm opinion as I surfed through it.

Okay, it looks different, in terms of the fact that it’s not another ooky-spooky black pagan site on a free server. However, it’s one of those stupid “clickto” urls, which I hate. That’s the URL that sits in the address bar the whole time, and that can make it a bitch to send pages back over an instant message program to a buddy. (Hey, it’s a common way for me to surf, so that peeves me.)

The FAQ’s are the same old, same old. Very fluffy answers, and some are outright crap, IMO. (I have a problem with the “witches don’t worship Satan” party line, because there are some witches that do. ) The “Pagan Traditions” section is garbage. It is plagiarized (with credit, but I guarantee you, without permission) from Silver RavenWolf’s To Ride a Silver Broomstick. I thought that section was garbage in the book, and I don’t think it’s any better on someone else’s web page. For one thing, British Traditional Witchcraft is not “a mix of Celtic and Gardnerian beliefs”. It also includes that garbage about how there’s no such thing as Satanic witches (which I find funny, since Anton LaVey wrote a whole book about them).

The deities section is more stuff lifted wholesale from SRW. So is the glossary… and the… Aw, nevermind. There’s absolutely nothing original on this site. It all came from someone else’s book (mainly Cunningham and RavenWolf) or someone else’s web site.

Maybe Llewellyn needs to be contacted about this. After all, it can’t be helping the publishing company’s revenue. And I’m sure it’s not helping the authors get their royalties, either.

Shame on the owner of this site.

Link: Bewitched Cafe
Score: 1/10
Reviewed by Enyo Perseus