Is woo on the rise or just where I live?

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I permanently relocated to the South West a few years ago after being a long term weekend visitor for about 5 years....and I've noticed the rise in the amount of woo practitioners in the area has totally exploded!

They range from harmless stuff like dancing naked around the forest with no clothes on (but always mysteriously with a photographer on hand for Instagram!) to more questionable stuff like "yoni steaming" and putting their periods on their faces, to the downright alarming stuff like Kambo (if you don't know what that is it's where a lunatic with no medical training burns you then applies this stuff to the burn that comes out of a poisonous frog in the Amazon, and you really violently vomit and have the shots and sometimes your face and skin swells up). There's also a woman nearby who seems to be a sort of doula (sp?) who specialises in helping you to give birth avoiding medical intervention of any kind at all costs....which seems a bit questionable!

I thought I was quite a fuzzy live and let live type but it's starting to annoy me. My lovely housemate who had a traumatic past is into it and it makes me sad that she goes to the legnths of poisoning herself to try to vomit up "bad energy" She's not bad, she's lovely.

Is this just a local thing or are other seeing a rise in "magical" and "goddesses" near them?

Was going to say Stroud too, but I did once see a Wiccan marriage ceremony at Belas Knapp near Winchcombe which was interesting to explain to my young DSes on our ramble.😮

What is a woo practitioner?

I think I might have tried this during may uni days, and let me tell you, it did NOT go down well...

The magick words you're looking for are "cacao ceremony", expect to pay quite a bit more than you would for Cadbury's.

I think it makes sense that you’ve seen an increase in all the pseudoscience and quackery with the massive increase in anti vaxxers since the pandemic. It all drives me absolutely mad! Many, many years ago I went down the path of woo to try and heal my anxiety and all it did is make me worse and more and more disheartened with life before finding actual psychiatric and psychological care that finally healed me.

hamsterchump no I mean we literally do, I know exactly who you mean, have PMd you. So funny.

Well they are all over Somerset now it seems, they are clogging up the waterfront here in their vans and angry pensions complaining on the local Facebook group because they can't park to stare at the sea whilst eating fish and chips in their cars. A woman was selling crystals and other crap from her unsightly can today

Many, many years ago I went down the path of woo to try and heal my anxiety and all it did is make me worse and more and more disheartened with life

This is the root of it for me I think. The placebo effect only lasts so long and then I expect you're left feeling worse and like there's something the matter with you because it didn't "work"

I just love the fact these woo-merchants are peddling their wares on Instagram. Postmodernism at its finest.

Senior civil servant so sensible job and I just spent the afternoon at a ceremonial cacao ceremony complete with a circle, sage, reiki, meditation, fairy cards and wild dancing. I really enjoyed it and met some lovely people. I do drink cacao regularly and do an hour yoga every morning before work. I don’t consider myself woo and spend most of my week, drafting policy and legislation and dropping my kids to their various hobbies. Am also a qualified accountant so quite functional in my thinking but love this side of life and it is really positive for my mental health and outlook.

There used to be a magazine called Prediction which was mainly horoscopes and astrology then it got very woo. Went out of publication years ago.

Well you lot have got me on stitches laughing here. Beats a woo intervention of a Sunday evening

Totnes? 😄

metro.co.uk/2019/02/28/modern-day-witch-says-her-spells-landed-her-the-perfect-match-on-tinder-8777917/amp/

This is an example of one of Totnes’ woo people. A witch called Kate Goth (!!) who is reminiscent of Kerry Mucklowe gone mad with the eyeliner.

WTF is cacao? As in, the bean that big standard chocolate products are made from??

Is it Glastonbury?

You're in Cornwall aren't you 🤣 I know who this is also....

Surely there can't be two??! 🤔

I know who this is also....

This is ridiculous 😂

Ive been toying with the idea of woo practitioner, Im thinking of nature circles to contact the living

Went out of publication years ago

did they see that coming?

Is this a bad time to tell you all that the Wicker man was a documentary

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*Went out of publication years ago

did they see that coming?*

LOL

Woo never goes away, it just woos off in another new craze.

Totnes has bad energy. Michael Palin spent ' five ghastly years ' there at the hairdresser college.

Nothing much to see here. Bit of forest bathing and the occasional visiting spiritualist. Obviously not on a ley line.

‘Then, a fortnight later, along came my very own Tom Hiddleston in the form of Adam, who worked in a furniture warehouse and was living 25 miles away in Tavistock.’