Wicca
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[edit] Etymology
A twentieth-century representation of the Old English wiċċa. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica[1] on page 102 in Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today (1954), alleging that the term was used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft who initiated him in 1939. The spelling Wicca is first attested[2] on page 95 in Gerald Gardner's Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).
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Wicca
- A neo-pagan religion and religious movement first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats.
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neo-pagan religion
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[edit] See also
Wicca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- Witchcraft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Witchcraft
[edit] References
- ^ 1954, Gardner, Gerald, Witchcraft Today, New York, New York: Magickal Childe, isbn-13 978-0806500027:
- ^ 1959, Gardner, Gerald, Meaning of Witchcraft, New York, New York: Magickal Childe, isbn-13 978-1578633098:
