And this is why I stay the hell away from teen!witches.

Wow - everybody repeat after me. Playing with herbs can be as dangerous as playing with drugs. More so, ’cause herbology is not that common field of study. Well, unless you grew up at a ren faire. Or had a wilderness/survival nut for a parent. (I had the former.) Thankfully, the poor kid in question just wasted a lot of saffron (My god, does she have any idea how much that stuff *costs*?!) and ended up dyeing herself yellow. Embaressing, but not catastrophic. She might have just as easily managed to poision herself.

There’s potential for several rants here. The “Herbs do not fix everything” rant, the “grumble grumble stupid little teen!pagans rant”, the “massive influx of trendy neo-pagan books aimed at the teen, preteen, and fluffhead crowd is not doing us any favors” rant… and I’m sure there’s one or two others knocking about in my head.

Oh yeah, the “internet research should be taken with a grain of salt and backed up with some good reputable books and at least one actual person who knows what they are doing” rant.

So, of course, if I try to go off any any of this, I’m going to loose focus (more than I already have) and wind up making none of the points I want to make. Gah.