Gina Mcgarry

I can't speak for the herbal remedies, only for McGarry's presentation of Brigit and Celtic material, which is seriously flawed. I appreciate what McGarry intended and her goodwill shines off the page. Yet she mixes speculation and factual error with verifiable fact and tradition, and doesn't distinguish between them. (The lack of footnotes makes this impossible to disentangle.) For example: her use of the Wiccan four elements -- valid in their own right, they are completely out of place in a traditional Celtic context. McGarry could have gotten around this problem and had a much stronger book as a result if she had dispensed with the claim that her work was traditional and simply presented it as a modern Pagan offering, inspired by Celtic and NeoPagan interpretations of Brigit.… (meer)