A Wisdom Archive on Gerald Gardner

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 ... Including:

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

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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: Gardner, Gerald Brosseau (1884-1964) is perhaps the best-known figure in modern Witchcraft.... Gerald Gardner was the founder of Gardnerian Wicca, one of the leading Traditions in the Wicca movement that began in the early 1960s.
 
Also See: Gerald Brousseau Gardner

 
(See also: Gerald Gardner, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca )

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Wicca and Witchcraft: Basic Philosophy of Wicca or Witchcraft
Wicca, or Witchcraft, is an earth religion -- a re-linking with the life force of nature, both on this planet and in the stars and space beyond. In city apartments, in suburban backyards, and in country glades, groups of women and men meet on the new and full moons and at festival times to raise energy and put themselves in tune with these natural forces. They honor the old goddesses and gods, including the Triple Goddess of the waxing, full, and waning moon, and the Horned God of the sun and animal life, as visualizations of immanent nature.
 

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Wica or WICA may refer to: Wica, Wicca as originally spelled by Gerald Gardner. Seax-Wica, a Wica tradition founded by Raymond Buckland. Witches International Craft Association, established by the Rev. Dr Leo Louis Martello probably in 1970. Witchcraft Information Centre and Archive, established by Leo Ruickbie in 1999. Other related archives1970, 1999, Gerald Gardner, Raymond Buckland,

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Witchcraft Today is a non-fiction book written by the founder of the Wicca religion, Gerald Gardner. Published in 1954, Witchcraft Today recounts Gardner's thoughts on the history of witchcraft, and details his disputed[1] claim to have met practicing Witches in 1950s England. Witchcraft Today is one of the foundational texts for the religion of Wicca, along with Gardner's second book o ... Including:

• Witchcraft Today - Notes and references

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