Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology is an anthropological study of contemporary Pagan and ceremonial magic groups that practiced magic...
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Neopagan witchcraft, sometimes referred to as The Craft, is an umbrella term for some neo-pagan traditions that include the practice of magic. These traditions...
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The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, formerly known as the Museum of Witchcraft, is a museum dedicated to European witchcraft and magic located in the...
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(2000). Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. Berg Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85973-450-6. Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (2006). "Magic I: Introduction"...
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magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form...
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Coven (category European witchcraft)
"covens". In Wicca and other similar forms of modern pagan witchcraft, such as Stregheria and Feri, a coven is a gathering or community of witches, like...
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Esotericism, including Wicca. The watchtowers are invoked during the ritual of casting a magic circle. In the Enochian system of magic, brought to public attention...
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Dianic Wicca (redirect from Feminist Witchcraft)
Dianic Wicca, also known as Dianic Witchcraft, is a modern pagan goddess tradition focused on female experience and empowerment. Leadership is by women...
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Wicca (redirect from British Traditional Witchcraft)
ceremonial magic, spread quickly and gained much media attention. Around this time, the term "Wicca" began to be commonly adopted over "Witchcraft" and the faith...
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Gardnerian Wicca (redirect from Witchcraft (Gardner))
servant and amateur scholar of magic. The term "Gardnerian" was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or...
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belief presented in the form of fiction, and he wrote of this scourging: "For this is the joke of Witchcraft, the Witch knows though the initiate does not...
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Rule of Three (Wicca) (category Modern pagan beliefs and practices)
working magic". The law is not a universal article of faith among Wiccans, and "there are many Wiccans, experienced and new alike, who view the Law of...
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Modern paganism (redirect from Neopaganism and the far right)
ISBN 5-87849-161-3. Greenwood, Susan (2000). Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. Oxford and New York City: Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-445-2...
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Skyclad (Neopaganism) (section Notes and references)
Wicca and Modern Paganism. Some groups, or Traditions, perform most or all of their rituals skyclad. Whilst nudity and the practice of witchcraft have...
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Witch's ladder (category European witchcraft)
(also known as "rope and feathers", witches' ladder, witches ladder, or witch ladder) is a practice, in folk magic or witchcraft, that is made from knotted...
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Horned God (redirect from The Horned God)
Historiography (review) in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft – Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2008, pp. 81–85 "from the library of the Order of Bards, Ovates &...
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Aidan Kelly. Crafting the Art of Magic, Book 1. St Paul, Minnesota: Lllewellyn, 1991. revised edition as Inventing Witchcraft. Thoth Publications, Loughborough...
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Athame (category Ceremonial magic)
handle. It is the main ritual implement or magical tool among several used in ceremonial magic traditions, and by other neopagans, witchcraft, as well as...
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Pentacle (redirect from Pentacle (magic))
Magic's Aid and 1954 book Witchcraft Today, Gardner defined a pentacle as a "five-pointed star", intending to mean a pentagram. In his 1959 book The Meaning...
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Feri Tradition (redirect from Feri Tradition of Witchcraft)
The Feri Tradition is an American neo-pagan tradition related to Neopagan witchcraft. It was founded in the west coast of the United States between the...
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The Green Man is a term with a variety of connotations in folklore and related fields. During the early modern period in England, and sometimes elsewhere...
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Modern pagan views on LGBT people (redirect from LGBT issues and Witchcraft)
founded in the summer of 2004 by seven gay men from diverse traditions such as ceremonial magic, shamanism, and pre-Gardnerian witchcraft in order to...
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Book of Shadows (category Books about magic)
mediaeval witchcraft, High Magic's Aid. High Priestess Doreen Valiente claimed that this was because at the time, Gardner had not yet conceived of the idea...
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Magical tools in Wicca (redirect from Stang (witchcraft))
Thompson in his 1927 book The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic and by Grillot de Givry in his 1931 book Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. The historian Ronald Hutton...
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Great rite (section Symbolic version of the great rite)
Witch's Book of Shadows. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 153. Hume, Lynne (1997). Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. v t e...
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and writing about it in High Magic's Aid (1949), Witchcraft Today (1954), and The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959). Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket...
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Sutton Mallet, England: Green Magic, pp. 16–17, ISBN 0-9547230-1-5 Glass, Justine (1965). Witchcraft, the Sixth Sense—and Us. London: Neville Spearman...
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1987, and Penguin Books 1997 ISBN 0-14-019536-X. Plate #1. Rhododaphne, or, The Thessalian spell: a poem By Thomas Love Peacock Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts...
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the fourth level of initiation or higher, meaning one is an arhat and thus no longer needs to reincarnate. Aaru Bardo Happy hunting ground Otherworld...
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Wiccan views of divinity (section The God)
1999). J. Gordon Melton and Isotta Poggi, Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism in America: A Bibliography, 2nd ed., (New York and London: Garland Publishing...
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