Wicca (English: /ˈwɪkə/), also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion. Considered a new religious movement by scholars...

Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic. In traditional Wicca, as expressed in the writings of Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, the...

Dianic Wicca, also known as Dianic Witchcraft, is a modern pagan goddess tradition focused on female experience and empowerment. Leadership is by women...

dualism was most exemplified in the "Great Rite" of British Traditional Wicca, one of the first notable neopagan ideological groups. In this Rite, a priest...

instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca. Since its conception, it has made its way into many pagan practices and...

Gardnerian Wicca, or Gardnerian witchcraft, is a tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner...

one of the realms of heavens, earth, and underworld. In various forms of Wicca, her masculine consort is the Horned God. The Triple Goddess was the subject...

the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism. The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th-century syncretic...

be a coffee table or a tree stump, it is up to the Wicca. The altar is often considered a personal place where practitioners put their ritual items. Some...

Universal Eclectic Wicca (UEW) is one of a number of distinctly American Wiccan traditions which developed following the introduction of Gardnerian and...

Sweep (Released as Wicca in the UK and Ireland) is a series of young adult fantasy novels written by Cate Tiernan, the first of which, Book of Shadows...

opposite divine cosmic forces. In some newer forms of Wicca, such as feminist or Dianic Wicca, the Goddess is given primacy or even exclusivity. In some...

most Traditional African religions, and various neopagan faiths such as Wicca. Hinduism, while popularly held as polytheistic by many scholars, cannot...

author of Witch: A Personal Journey and other books on Wicca Inkubus Sukkubus, musical group Lipp, Deborah, author of books on Wicca Martello, Leo, American...

neoshamanism combines Celtic elements with shamanic practices, while Celtic Wicca blends Celtic mythology with Wiccan traditions. Each tradition within Celtic...

considered a ritual faux pas in almost all traditions of Wicca: It is an intrusion of the owner's personal space; and more importantly, it is an act that violates...

was an English writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he was a high priest in both the...

Various forms of Wicca have since evolved or been adapted from Gardner's British Traditional Wicca or Gardnerian Wicca, such as Alexandrian Wicca. Other forms...

inspired Gerald Gardner, the creator of Wicca, to incorporate the wand and various other ritual objects into Wicca. The creators of the Golden Dawn got their...

which became hugely influential in modern Western Esotericism, including Wicca. The watchtowers are invoked during the ritual of casting a magic circle...

Unverified personal gnosis (UPG), sometimes referred to as subjective personal gnosis, is said to be spiritual belief gained through personal experience...

statement that provides the key moral system in the neopagan religion of Wicca and certain other related witchcraft-based faiths. A common form of the...

after changing his religious affiliation from Pentecostal Christianity to Wicca and applying to become the first Wiccan military chaplain. His potential...

Age, on December 1. After the latter's release, she was backed by artist Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, who praised Cain for her "mature songwriting and...

pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. Born into an upper-middle-class...

now-discredited witch-cult theory and ceremonial magic, Wicca emphasizes a connection to nature, the divine, and personal growth. Stregheria is a distinctly Italian...

Witchcraft (1959) and the founder of a tradition known as Gardnerian Wicca. Gardnerian Wicca revolved around the veneration of both a Horned God and a Mother...

Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America. Oxford and Lanham: AltaMira. ISBN 978-0-7591-0202-6. Doyle White, Ethan (2010). "The Meaning of "Wicca": A Study...

Cotswolds 1991 Educational Excursions 1-878877-06-2 Britain's Wicca Man, documentary on Wicca and Gerald Gardener, 2012. A Very British Witchcraft, documentary...

songwriter living in America who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. She is the founder...