The history of Wicca documents the rise of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based Neopagan religions. Wicca originated in the early...
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Wicca (English: /ˈwɪkə/), also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion. Considered a new religious movement by scholars...
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MacMorgan-Douglas, Kaatryn (2007). All One Wicca: A study in the universal eclectic tradition of wicca (Tenth Anniversary ed.). Buffalo, NY: Covenstead...
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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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Alexandrian Wicca or Alexandrian Witchcraft is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders (also known as "King of the Witches")...
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Celtic Wicca is a modern form of Wicca that incorporates some elements of Celtic mythology. It employs the same basic theology, rituals and beliefs as...
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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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In Modern English, the term Wicca (/ˈwɪkə/) refers to Wicca, the religion of contemporary Pagan witchcraft. It is used within the Pagan community under...
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In the neopagan religion of Wicca a range of magical tools are used in ritual practice. Each of these tools has different uses and associations and are...
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witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called "covens". In Wicca and other similar forms of modern pagan witchcraft, such as Stregheria...
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Magic circle (redirect from Magic circle (Wicca))
size can vary depending on the purpose of the circle, and the preference of the caster. Some varieties of Wicca use the common ceremonial colour attributions...
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Horned God (redirect from Horned God of Wicca)
Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism. The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early...
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Samhain. Due to early Wicca's influence on modern paganism and the syncretic adoption of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic motifs, Wheel of the Year festival names...
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rituals. The handle of the athame is usually black, and is required in most covens which practice some variant of British tradition Wicca, including Gardnerian...
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Neopagan witchcraft (redirect from Contemporary practice of witchcraft)
had actually been followers of a surviving pagan religion. The largest and most influential of these movements was Wicca. Some other groups and movements...
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Dorothy Clutterbuck (section Clutterbuck and Wicca)
1939. She has therefore become a figure of some significance in the history of Wicca. Clutterbuck was a practising Anglican Christian, and never identified...
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and her role in the history of Wicca was subsequently investigated by historians. The reason for Woodford-Grimes' adoption of the pseudonym Dafo is...
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Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) (redirect from Triple Goddess (Wicca))
life cycle and a phase of the Moon, and often rules one of the realms of heavens, earth, and underworld. In various forms of Wicca, her masculine consort...
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worship or prayer", upon which a Wicca practitioner places several symbolic and functional items for the purpose of worshiping the God and Goddess, casting...
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Jack L. Bracelin (section Wicca)
an English high priest of Gardnerian Wicca. He was an influential figure in the early history of Wicca and was an early member of Gerald Gardner's Bricket...
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Raymond Buckland (category Founders of modern pagan movements)
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...
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Doreen Valiente (category Writers from the London Borough of Merton)
much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. An author and poet, she also published five books dealing with Wicca and...
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(2001), Wicca: The Complete Craft, The Crossing Press, ISBN 9781580910927 Wingfield, Chris (2010) "A case re-opened: the science and folklore of a 'Witch's...
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School of Wicca was founded by Gavin Frost and Yvonne Frost in 1968. It was the first federally recognized Church of the religion known as Wicca in the...
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Handfasting (category Social history of the United Kingdom)
effect, a wedding ceremony called "hand-fasting" in Wicca." Hans Holzer, Heather: confessions of a witch, Mason & Lipscomb, 1975, p. 101. Kennealy, Patricia...
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views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic. In traditional Wicca, as expressed...
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Mother goddess (section List of mother goddesses)
worshiped by modern Wicca and others broadly known as Neopagans. She is considered sometimes identified as a Triple Goddess, who takes the form of Maiden, Mother...
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Scott Cunningham (section Wicca)
author of several books on Wicca and various other alternative religious subjects. His work Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, is one of the most...
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