Day 22: Have there been types of witchcraft you’ve explored but in the end rejected?

This post is part of a 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft series in which I answer questions about my own personal views about magic and witchcraft.  I urge you to answer the same questions, found here, on your own blog.

I can't say there's anything I explored with any depth that I wouldn't do again.  So, I will just list some of my personal witchcraft no-no's.

I started out doing very New Age, popular "Wicca" type magic, and I have since expanded my view of what magic can be.

I've read about ceremonial magic, and I'm really not a fan for myself personally, but scant reading was the extent of my exploration.  Ditto for chaos magic.  I want to learn more because I am a major bibliophile, but that's not a path I feel myself drawn toward.

I was interested in voodoo as a child, but I have never actually done anything and I have nothing to do with it now.  Not because there's anything wrong with voodoo, but I feel that I have no business interfering in that religion as a cultural outsider.

I have nothing to do with fairies or trickster deities.  I have a classroom full of tweens, a cat, and a feisty spouse, so there is an abundance of impish energy in my life already.  Ditto for beings like Lucifer, Satan, Loki, and so on.

I don't call on the Abrahamic god in spells because many of his followers might perceive that as disrespectful to their own belief system.  My mom, for one, and I respect her beyond measure.  Ditto for Mary, Jesus, and the saints.  There are people who carefully and thoughtfully do so (see all syncretic religions ever plus others), and I respect them, but I don't do it in my own practice.  Sometimes I mention "the gods of my ancestors" which of course includes that god, but I only say things like, "I recognize and honor the gods of my ancestors who wish me well," and I don't actually pull them in by name.

I don't have anything to do with dragons.  I dig dragons in art, literature, and world cultures, but I don't feel comfortable "summoning" or working with a creature like that without more research and a personal relationship.  Ditto for angels.

I'm sure there's more.  I hope that people don't feel hurt by this post.  I assure you that I know that other people do the things I don't, and somehow the world continues to rotate on its axis and orbit the sun.  I don't want to rain on anyone's magical parade or be disrespectful.