Doreen Valiente (1922 - 1999) was a co-creator of Wicca, together with Gerald Gardner. Born Doreen Dominy, the daughter of Christian parents, the young Doreen was convinced from an early age that she possessed the power to use magic. Valiente was the name of Doreen's second husband. Shortly after Gardner made public his claims to have been initiated into a surviving witch cult, he was joined by Valiente, who collaborated with him in the creation of rituals. Valiente also wrote a number of poems for the use of Wiccans, in ...

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• Doreen Valiente - Bibliography

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Doreen Valiente: (1922-1999) Born Doreen Edith Dominy. She became one of the first initiates of Gerald Gardner, and eventually his High Priestess. In this role she was able to influence many of the writings that became the bedrock for modern Witchcraft. Her most well-known writing is her rendition of “The Charge of the Goddess” which is still used by many covens today.

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DOREEN VALIENTE - A popular Craft author and English High Priestess now deceased, whose poetic works include 'The Charge of the Goddess' and 'The Witches' Rune'.

Doreen Valiente was initiated by Gerald B. Gardner (Gardnerian Tradition Founder) in 1953. She replaced much of Aleister Crowley's work in Gardner's rituals with her own. She was a widow before her death, and lived in Sussex. Her notable works are often misquoted and plagiarized. She contributed a great deal to the Craft. A prolific writer, her books included these titles and more:

• Natural Magic, An ABC of Witchcraft
• Past and Present, The Rebirth of Witchcraft, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

(See also: DOREEN VALIENTE, Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text sometimes used in Neopaganism and Wicca. Doreen Valiente, a student of Gerald Gardner, originally wrote a Charge in verse, and later in prose: the prose version is the one known today. It has since been modified and adapted by many others, and is in the public domain. The original text of the prose version is found in Eight Sabbats for Witches by Janet and Stewart Farrar. See The Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valien ...

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In Wicca, skyclad properly means "naked outdoors", though it is frequently used to mean nudity anywhere. Some contemporary Wiccans perform rituals skyclad. This may be done for various reasons. Although some hereditary witches claim that their families have always practiced skyclad, nudity was probably introduced into witchcraft by Gerald Gardner, the father of Wicca, who was a nudist and insisted his coven practice nude. The Charge of the Goddess, attributed to the godde ...

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Gerald Brosseau Gardner (June 13, 1884 - February 13, 1964) was a British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, writer, and occultist who published some of the definitive texts for modern Wicca, which he was instrumental in founding. Gerald Gardner - Life. Gardner was born in England to a relatively well-off family who had in their service Josephine "Com" McCombie, an Irish nursemaid[1]. Gardner, who had asthma at the ...

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• Gerald Gardner - Life
• Gerald Gardner - Wicca
• Gerald Gardner - Etymology
• Gerald Gardner - Bibliography
• Gerald Gardner - Notes and references

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Dafo is the "magical name" (an occultist's pseudonym) for an otherwise anonymous woman that researchers such as Ronald Hutton and Philip Heselton have come to view as an important contributer to the development of Gardnerian Witchcraft, and therefore Wicca. She has been variously identified as Gerald Gardner's "magical working partner", "High Priestess", and teacher. While it is not clear to what extent she was involved in occultism before meeting Gardner, or even what her precise relationship to Gardner or the first coven he was involved with was, Gardner repeatedly cited her as an authority on witchcraft t ...

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Gardnerian Wicca is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca. Gardnerian Wicca is named after Gerald Gardner (1884-1964), a British civil servant who studied magic, among other topics. He knew and worked with many famous occultists, not the least of which was Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). After his retirement Gardner moved to Christchurch near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved certain traditional practices. As an amateur folklorist, Gardner ...

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The Wiccan Rede is a saying that sums up the ethics of the neo-Pagan religion Wicca. The most common form of the rede is An it harm none, do what ye will. "Rede" is a word from Middle English meaning "advice" or "counsel". "An" is an archaic contraction of the word "and", meaning "if", as in the Shakespearian "an it please thee". Other variants include: An it harm none, do as thou wilt Do what you will, so long as it harms none An it harm none, do what thou will Including:

• Wiccan Rede - History
• Wiccan Rede - Dating the poem
• Wiccan Rede - Interpretations of the Rede
• Wiccan Rede - Notes

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CHARGE: The Originally written in modern form by Doreen Valiente, it is a story of the message from Goddess to Her children.

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Originally written in modern form by Doreen Valiente, it is a
story of the message from the Goddess to Her children

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THE CHARGE –

1. modern form written by Doreen Valiente. A message from the Goddess to her children. (TRASB)

2. To impart psychic energy to. (NAD)

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She wrote a number of novels and short stories that explored various aspects of magic and mysticism, including The Demon Lover, The Winged Bull, The Goat-Foot God, and The Secrets of Dr. Taverner. This latter is a collection of short stories based on her experiences with Theodore Moriarty. Her most influential fictional books are The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic which influenced Wiccans, most notably, Doreen ValienteSee also:

Dion Fortune, Dion Fortune - Early Life, Dion Fortune - Early Magical Career, Dion Fortune - Writing, Dion Fortune - Later Magical Career, Dion Fortune - Quotes

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CHARGE OF THE GODDESS: not an exercise but a well-known literary work. Doreen Valiente wrote it for Gardner and it came from the Charge of the Goddess in Aradia, Gospel of the Witches by Charles Leland. The High Priestess intones these words, as the Goddess to her 'hidden children' during ritual.

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Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939 into a tradition of religious witchcraft that he believed to be a continuation of European Paganism. Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Garder as Dorothy Clutterbuck in a book published by Janet and Stewart Farrar. This identification was based on references Valiente remembered Gardner making to a woman he called "Old Dorothy". Scholar Ronald Hutton instead argues in his Triumph of the Moon that Gardner's witchcraft tradition was largel ...

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Gerald Gardner, Gerald Gardner - Life, Gerald Gardner - Wicca, Gerald Gardner - Etymology, Gerald Gardner - Bibliography, Gerald Gardner - Notes and references

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The combination of Wicca with no harm to others and do what thou wilt made its first known appearance in The Old Laws by Gerald Gardner, 1953. A similar phrase, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, appears in Aleister Crowley's works by 1904, in The Book of the Law (though as used by Crowley it is half of a statement and response, the response being "Love is the Law, love under Will). The rede in its best known form was used by Doreen Valiente in several writings. In the form of the "eight words" coupl ...

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Wiccan Rede, Wiccan Rede - History, Wiccan Rede - Dating the poem, Wiccan Rede - Interpretations of the Rede, Wiccan Rede - Notes

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Wicca - Origins. The history of Wicca is much debated. Gardner claimed that the religion was a survival of matriarchal Pagan religions of pre-historic Europe (see Völva), taught to him by a woman known as "Dafo" or "Old Dorothy" (identified by Doreen Valiente (1984) as Dorothy Clutterbuck, although modern researchers such as Philip Heselton have theorized that Dafo and Clutterbuck were two separate individuals). Others posit that he invented it himself, following the thesis of Dr. Margaret Murray and sources suc ...

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Wicca, Wicca - Definition, Wicca - History of Wicca, Wicca - Origins, Wicca - Later developments, Wicca - Beliefs and practices, Wicca - Morality, Wicca - Discrimination and persecution of Wiccans, Wicca - United States, Wicca - Wiccan traditions, Wicca - Notes

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Wicca - Origins. The history of Wicca is much debated. Gardner claimed that the religion was a survival of matriarchal Pagan religions of pre-historic Europe (see Völva), taught to him by a woman known as "Dafo" or "Old Dorothy" (identified by Doreen Valiente (1984) as Dorothy Clutterbuck, although modern researchers such as Philip Heselton have theorized that Dafo and Clutterbuck were two separate individuals). Others posit that he invented it himself, following the thesis of Dr. Margaret Murray and sources suc ...

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Wicca, Wicca - Definition, Wicca - History of Wicca, Wicca - Origins, Wicca - Later developments, Wicca - Beliefs and practices, Wicca - Morality, Wicca - Discrimination and persecution of Wiccans, Wicca - United States, Wicca - Wiccan traditions, Wicca - Notes, Wicca - Bibliographical and Encyclopedic Sources, Wicca - Academic Studies

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CHARGE OF THE GODDESS - The Traditional words of the Goddess to her followers. Originally written by Doreen Valiente, it is a story of the message from the Goddess to her children. Normally declared by the HPS at every coven Circle.

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Farrar was born in Clapham in 1950. Her family, of mixed English, Irish and Welsh were members of the Church of England. Farrar attended the Leyton Manor School, and the Royal Wanstead High School girls' school. After high school, Farrar worked as a model and receptionist[3]. Farrar was initiated into Alexandrian Wicca by the tradition's founders, Alex and Maxine Sanders. Farrar met the Sanders in 1970 through a friend who had become interested in ...

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Janet Farrar, Janet Farrar - Life, Janet Farrar - Bibliography, Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar, Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, Janet Farrar - With Virginia Russell, Janet Farrar - With Gavin Bone, Janet Farrar - Notes and references

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