• The Witchcraft Research Association was a British organisation formed in 1964 in an attempt to unite and study the various claims that had emerged of...
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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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    ISBN 978-0-7387-1876-7 Buckland, Raymond (2002). Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft (2nd ed.). Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 0-87542-050-8. Cunningham, Scott...
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  • occultism after attending a Society for Psychical Research lecture, taking a particular interest in witchcraft. He founded one coven, but it soon collapsed...
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  • defend her religion, she played a leading role in both the Witchcraft Research Association and then the Pagan Front during the 1960s and 1970s. That latter...
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  • speech given by Doreen Valiente at a dinner sponsored by the Witchcraft Research Association and mentioned in volume one (1964) of the Pentagram, a United...
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  • organizations began to be formed to propagate it, such as the Witchcraft Research Association. It was during this decade that the faith was transported to...
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  • equally art bound to return good threefold." (For this is the joke in witchcraft, the witch knows, though the initiate does not, that she will get three...
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    for witchcraft were women on average about 70 to 80 percent of the time, most of the time women over the age of 50. Actual practitioners of witchcraft in...
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    the most popular representation. The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane...
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    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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    ceremony, and it was most controversial." – Hans Holzer, The Truth about Witchcraft (1969), p. 172; "Then I learned that the "special meeting" was, in effect...
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  • contemporary Pagan witchcraft. It is used within the Pagan community under competing definitions. One refers to the entirety of the Pagan Witchcraft movement,...
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    Pagan Witchcraft. Liverpool University Press. pp. 160–162. "Beaufort House Index of English Traditional Witchcraft". Beaufort House Association. 15 January...
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  • whereupon Leek returned to live with her grandmother, quitting the Witchcraft research association. She later stayed with an acquaintance in Lyndhurst, in the...
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  • Witch's Book of Shadows. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 153. Hume, Lynne (1997). Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. v t...
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    they called "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...
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  • 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 1950s...
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    page 319 Holzer, Hans "The Truth about Witchcraft Today" Gardner, Gerald (2000). The Meaning of Witchcraft. Essex House, Thame, England: I-H-O Books...
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  • Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook By Daniel Ogden Page 238 ISBN 0-19-515123-2 Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft...
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  • speech given by Doreen Valiente at a dinner sponsored by the Witchcraft Research Association and mentioned in volume one (1964) of the Pentagram, a United...
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  • elders of various traditions gathered to form an organization for all Witchcraft practitioners. At this meeting, they drafted a covenant and bylaws. That...
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  • Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic...
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    the witches' alphabet due to its use in modern Wicca and other forms of witchcraft as one of many substitution ciphers to hide magical writings such as the...
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    Church Architecture", published in Folklore journal of March 1939. This association ultimately helped consolidate the belief that the Green Man was a genuine...
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    magazine. Popularisation of these names happened gradually; in her 1978 book Witchcraft For Tomorrow, influential Wiccan author Doreen Valiente did not use Kelly's...
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    Mysteries and Secrets of Magic and by Grillot de Givry in his 1931 book Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. The historian Ronald Hutton theorized that Gardner...
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    Gardnerian Wicca, or Gardnerian witchcraft, is a tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner...
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    book Witchcraft Today, Gardner defined a pentacle as a "five-pointed star", intending to mean a pentagram. In his 1959 book The Meaning of Witchcraft, Gardner...
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  • Tree Church Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan Church of Canada Witchcraft Research Association Grey School of Wizardry Magical organization Our Lady of Endor...
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