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So, I know a lot of you don't really like Silver RavenWolf, and I myself can tell which parts of her writing I've read are filled with useful information and which parts are really more for popularity, but I looked at the back of my Teen Witch book (only book on Wicca I own personally, it's a RavenWolf book), and there's, like the backs of most books, ads for more books. Well, the last ad is called "Teen Witch Kit" and it's $24.95. Well, I haven't read the description all the way yet, but I saw the "this product contains" list and some of the things seemed unnecessary. Like, "spell salt"--you don't really need a special salt to use in your magick. Just regular, natural sodium chloride will do. Like, "spell salt"? My mother has been Wiccan throughout most of her life and has gone back to it, her husband is Wiccan, I've read a lot in books and the internet about magick, and I've talked to plenty of magick practitioners on these forums, and I have never heard of "spell salt". I've had this book for ten years, though I never really looked at the back and only recently began to truly read it. But there's also a "golden coin"--I honestly don't think you need--or that they would sell a real--hold coin. And then there's a yes/no coin. Can't just any coin do for yes or no? A penny, a yen, a collectors coin, or even those heads tails coins in starter kits for Naruto CCG card games could do, right? Is this just the publisher trying to make money? Like, I don't get it. But whatever.