Whoever does the background research for this show clearly doesn't know their stuff. There's a big difference between artistic license and poorly researched Wikipedia nonsense. It's not even a case of the inaccuracies are helpful to the plot, they're just ridiculous.
So apparently people are being murdered as part of some blood sacrifice Wesen ritual. Fine. Perfectly acceptable Grimm plot. Then supposedly this ritual uses 'runes' from a series of entirely unrelated cultures (Celtic symbology is not the same as Nordic runes, the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn is not related to either one of them - the Order being an invented secret society). Then they try to draw it all together under the guise of 'Wicca', whilst mis-stating that 'Wicca' was in existence at least 100 years before it was actually invented by a New Age practitioner in the 1950s.
Usually Grimm's back reference of real groups or ideas are well researched and the artistic license applied makes sense and adds to the plot. But this was just a mismatch of nonsensical references, adding nothing to the plot, in fact detracting from the plot.
I have no issue with bending facts to suit the story but at least try to be realistic.
So apparently people are being murdered as part of some blood sacrifice Wesen ritual. Fine. Perfectly acceptable Grimm plot. Then supposedly this ritual uses 'runes' from a series of entirely unrelated cultures (Celtic symbology is not the same as Nordic runes, the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn is not related to either one of them - the Order being an invented secret society). Then they try to draw it all together under the guise of 'Wicca', whilst mis-stating that 'Wicca' was in existence at least 100 years before it was actually invented by a New Age practitioner in the 1950s.
Usually Grimm's back reference of real groups or ideas are well researched and the artistic license applied makes sense and adds to the plot. But this was just a mismatch of nonsensical references, adding nothing to the plot, in fact detracting from the plot.
I have no issue with bending facts to suit the story but at least try to be realistic.