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...

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...

Wiccan traditions are derived. From the supposed New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including...

line, though having its supposed origins in the pre-Gardnerian New Forest coven. The coven formed after Gardner bought a plot at the Fiveacres Country Club...

near the New Forest, he joined an occult group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship. Through this group, he encountered the New Forest coven into which...

have been initiated into the Craft – as Wicca is often known – by the New Forest coven in 1939. Gardner's form of Wicca, the Gardnerian tradition, was spread...

the faith's earliest known adherents. She had been a member of the New Forest coven which met during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and through this became...

have been initiated into a surviving tradition of Witchcraft, the New Forest Coven. The athame was their most important ritual tool, with many uses, but...

Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated...

Cézanne Forest Café, a community café and arts venue in central Edinburgh Forest Theater, a theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California New Forest coven, an...

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...

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 he said...

there had been no New Forest coven and that Gardner had therefore invented Wicca, instead insisting that Gardner had stumbled on a coven of the Murrayite...

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and that this was the group referred to by Gerald Gardner as the 'New Forest Coven'. The numbers attending Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship events...

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Gardner with this, who admitted that the text he had received from the New Forest coven had been fragmentary and he had had to fill much of it using various...

Nineteenth Century Sources of the New Age Triple Moon Goddess. Culture and Cosmos, 19(1): 45–70. Seims, Melissa (2007). "The Coven of Atho". Thewica.co.uk. Howard...

Cauldron of Inspiration, which gather historical evidence surrounding the New Forest coven and the origins of Gardnerian Wicca. In his non-literary life his interest...

"The Old Laws or the Ardanes by Gerald Gardner, attributed to the New Forest Coven, 1957". Wicca: For the Rest of Us. Archived from the original on October...

the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 December 2006. Theitic (2001). The New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine...

been compiled by Gerald Gardner or possibly another member of the New Forest coven. Gardner intended his version to be a theological statement justifying...

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...

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...

He 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...

Gardner, and from him is said to go back to the New Forest coven; however, the existence of this coven remains unproven. Gardner himself said that there...

private ceremonies at home, while others do so with their covens: Generally meeting in covens, which anoint their own priests and priestesses, Wiccans...

Patricia and her then-husband, Arnold Crowther, founded the Sheffield Coven in 1961, of which they were High Priestess and High Priest. Crowther has...

19th century, John Rhys and James Frazer suggested it had been the "Celtic New Year", but that is disputed. In the 9th century, the Western Church endorsed...

lover and her child. This is reflected in the traditional structure of the coven, wherein "the High Priestess is the leader, with the High Priest as her...