windinthemaples

I don't find many pagan books during my thrift store shopping, so when I do, I tend to buy on sight. This time, for 50 cents, I got Gerina Dunwich's Candlelight Spells: The Modern Witch's Book of Spellcasting, Feasting, and Natural Healing.

There is a recipe, page 37, for the main Lammas feast centerpiece, BAKED SQUIRRELS

Baked squirrels! The first ingredient listed is "13 skinned and washed squirrels". I can't even tell you how ridiculous the directions read. (They begin, "Dredge squirrels in flour mixed with the yellow pollen of cattails collected in early or midsummer...") This is like some fucked up Mad Libs recipe where "squirrels" was the plural noun that my niece picked to be funny.

Now, obviously it is just as gross as if it said, "Baked Chickens", but really--this is feasting for "the modern witch"? The modern witches I know mostly live in urban or suburban settings, shop in grocery stores, and rarely, if ever, have access to 13 dead squirrels.

Eww. Just eww.

I'm going to have to come up with a post-modern witch's Lammas menu.

(I don't have a squirrel icon. Let this chipmunk's look of shock be admonishment enough.)