Wicca
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A twentieth-century representation of the Old English wiċċa. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica[1] in Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today (1954), as a collective noun ("the Wica") allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft who initiated him in 1939. The spelling Wicca, again as a collective noun, is first attested in a letter to Gardner from his friend Margaret Bruce, dated 23 February 1960.[2]
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Proper noun[edit]
Wicca
- A neopagan religion first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats.
Hyponyms[edit]
- Eclectic Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Gardnerian Wicca, Odyssean Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Celtic Wicca, Faery Wicca
Translations[edit]
neo-pagan religion
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Wicca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- Witchcraft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Witchcraft
References[edit]
- ^ 1954, Gerald Gardner, Witchcraft Today, New York, New York: Magickal Childe, isbn-13 978-0806500027:
- ^ Seims, Melissa (2008), "Wica or Wicca? Politics and the Power of Words" in The Cauldron 129.
