Yes, we made it all up . . .

Forthcoming from Celephaïs Press when it's actually been written.

Legend has it that a summary of the rites and traditions of Chaos Wicca was discovered in the form of a cipher manuscript, found stuffed inside a Bulwer-Lytton novel which had lain undisturbed for decades, miscatalogued in the English Literature stacks of Leeds University Library.

Another story has it that the rumoured Chaos Wicca Coven (motto: "Yes, we made it all up: that's the point"), supposed to have conducted strange rituals involving cheese and soft fruit in a Leeds 6 basement in the late 1970s, never really existed, and that the manuscript was in fact a prop for a live-action roleplaying game which had been mislaid by the GM while doing background research.

A talk on the subject of Chaos Wicca was promised to the Leeds University pagan society in 2002 or so but cancelled for reasons never adequately explained.

Be that as it may, the "tradition" (to use the term loosely) appears to have been created by the time-honoured practice of stealing fragments of doctrine and ritual from all over, nailing them together and roughly planing over the joints to make something that might pass as a coherent whole in very bad light to an observer whose perceptions were impaired by alcohol or heavy psychedelics, and then inventing a questionable origin story which would not stand up to twenty-three seconds of serious examination.

[More to follow if I can be bothered.]