I asked a friend of mine what she would like me to make for her as a birthday present because I'm good at making stuff and prefer it to most store bought presents and she answered saying 'a dream catcher'. And she is a reaaaally close friend of mine and I got all excited about doing it for her and gave her the idea that I will and then I realized what a dream catcher really is and did more research on it and began to get worried.
For those of you who don't know what a dream catcher is it's a beautifully crafted Native American handicraft which despite it's overall aesthetic appeal is actually based on some Native American spider god and is supposed to catch evil dreams and good dreams and filter out only the good and it could become a gateway for evil spirits now that I think about it because the Native American tradition is based a lot on spirits and stuff. My problem is that I don't know what to do now! Do I make it for her or not??
Do note that on one hand she's not Christian and not much into any god while on the other hand I might feel guilty if I gave her something related to a pagan god being a Christian myself.
For those of you who don't know what a dream catcher is it's a beautifully crafted Native American handicraft which despite it's overall aesthetic appeal is actually based on some Native American spider god and is supposed to catch evil dreams and good dreams and filter out only the good and it could become a gateway for evil spirits now that I think about it because the Native American tradition is based a lot on spirits and stuff. My problem is that I don't know what to do now! Do I make it for her or not??
Do note that on one hand she's not Christian and not much into any god while on the other hand I might feel guilty if I gave her something related to a pagan god being a Christian myself.