@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus There's also a difference between "oo scary" in a sense of cultivating horror related to the craft (I see a lot of replies about fear of pentagrams etc) as opposed to genuine care related to witchcraft. Any tool that is powerful necessarily contains the potential for harm, and I don't really see the point in pretending like that isn't the case. We don't need to sit here and fear monger about, say, modern antibiotics. Clearly they're very beneficial. But obviously misuse and overuse has the potential to incur a grave social cost. I think that any craft related to magick is kind of like that: it's a tool. If we didn't think it had any power what's the point? But I make the distinction because I'm not sure which you're talking about -- genuine guidelines around practice, or the cultivation of horror around witchcraft in general.