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    The Bricket Wood coven, or Hertfordshire coven is a coven of Gardnerian witches founded in the 1940s by Gerald Gardner. It is notable for being the first...
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    village also began to attract Wiccans after Gerald Gardner set up the Bricket Wood coven. During the 1950s housing estates were built for employees of aviation...
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    coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens...
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  • A coven (/kʌvən/) is a group or gathering of witches. The word "coven" (from Anglo-Norman covent, cuvent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventum...
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    Wicca (section Covens)
    into a witches' coven in New Forest, Hampshire, in the late 1930s. Intent on perpetuating this craft, Gardner founded the Bricket Wood coven with his wife...
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  • Meaning of Witchcraft (1959). Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including...
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    1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades. The Book of Shadows...
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  • founder, Gerald Gardner. Soon becoming the High Priestess of Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, she helped him to produce or adapt many important scriptural texts...
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    Priestess of the Gardnerian tradition, claimed that Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven referred to the god as Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which is a Latin word...
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    the high priestess of the Bricket Wood coven, the first Wiccan coven started by Gerald Gardner, which was based in Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, working...
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  • left, along with several other members of the Bricket Wood coven, to found their own. The Bricket Wood coven continued on with members that included Jack...
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    popularised these seasonal festival calendars in the twentieth century: the Bricket Wood coven, a Wiccan group founded by Gerald Gardner, and the Order of Bards...
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    the Bricket Wood coven of English occultist Gerald Gardner. Gardner said he had been initiated by a group of pagan witches, the New Forest coven, who...
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    been initiated into a surviving tradition of Witchcraft, the New Forest Coven. The athame was their most important ritual tool, with many uses, but was...
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    flagellate members of the coven, primarily in initiation rites. Frederic Lamond said that whilst Gardner never told his Bricket Wood coven which element this...
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  • early history of Wicca and was an early member of Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven. Jack Leon Bracelin was born 2 June 1926 in the Edmonton registration...
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    The New Forest coven was an alleged group of pagan witches who met around the area of the New Forest in Southern England during the early 20th century...
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  • Both receive more power. It is an uncommon ritual in a full coven, as it is used when the coven is in need of powerful spiritual intervention. Most often...
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    of homophobia by Lois Bourne, one of the High Priestesses of the Bricket Wood coven: "Gerald was homophobic. He had a deep hatred and detestation of homosexuality...
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  • member of the Gardnerian tradition having been initiated into the Bricket Wood coven in 1957. He became involved in a number of Pagan organisations, including...
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  • late 1940s, Gerald Gardner founded the Bricket Wood coven, and was joined by Dafo. However, she left the coven in 1952, fearing Gardner's growing publicity...
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  • claimed to have learned the term during his initiation into the New Forest coven in 1939. By the late 1950s, Gardner's rival Charles Cardell, founder of...
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    Pentacle History of Wicca History of Wicca Etymology of Wicca Bricket Wood coven New Forest coven Dettmer v. Landon Witch-cult hypothesis Notable figures Gerald...
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    Pentacle History of Wicca History of Wicca Etymology of Wicca Bricket Wood coven New Forest coven Dettmer v. Landon Witch-cult hypothesis Notable figures Gerald...
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  • Church Bricket Wood coven Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Coven Celeste Covenant of the Goddess New Forest coven New Reformed...
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  • Stone Family, and received his Third Degree Initiation as a member of that coven.[citation needed] Scott Cunningham was born at the William Beaumont Hospital...
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  • They moved to Timberline Drive in Brentwood. That same year they founded a coven in Bay Shore. This was the first group in the US following the Gardnerian...
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  • An esbat /ˈɛsbæt/ is a coven meeting or ritual at a time other than one of the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of contemporary...
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    would die out, and so initiated more members into it through his Bricket Wood coven. The tradition that he started became Gardnerian Wicca. The New Forest...
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  • Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 December 2006. Theitic (2001). The New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. At...
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