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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - 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 ...

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Gerald Gardner - Etymology

Gerald Gardner: Spiritual Dictionary on Gerald Gardner

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)

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia II - 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 time was suffering and his nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates in the Continent. Com eventually settled in Asia, where Gardner stayed for a ...

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Witchcraft Today - Notes and references

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Dafo

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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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Gardnerian Wicca

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 ...

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Doreen Valiente

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

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Charge of the Goddess

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 ...

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Adriana Porter

Adriana Porter July 1857, Nova Scotia, Canada - March 1, 1946 Melrose, Mass.) was an alleged poet and witch. Porter's notability rests on a poem, The Rede of the Wiccae, which was published by her granddaughter Lady Gwen Thompson in Green Egg Magazine in 1975 and attributed to her. It has become a semi-sacred text within the culture of Wicca. Thompson claimed that she had inherited her Wiccan beliefs and practices from Porter, who had summarised them in the poem. If this were true, it would confirm that the hidden practices of witchcraft articulated by Gerald Gardner in his books existed in ...

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Skyclad

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 Gardner: Encyclopedia - Wicca

Wicca is a Neopagan religious movement found in many different countries, though most commonly in English-speaking cultures. Wicca was first publicised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witch cult, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion. The veracity o ...

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Wicca - United States

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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Book of Shadows

The Book of Shadows is the traditional book of Wicca, containing the core rituals, practices, and wisdom of the tradition. It is copied by hand from that of one's initiator (High Priestess or Priest), who copied it from his or her initiator. The traditional material it contains may not be changed; sometimes additions are allowed. Some of the Wicca keep a personal Book of Shadows in addition to that of their tradition. This is typically for individual use and is not always passed on to one's initiates. The term Book of ...

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Athame

Athame, athamé or arthame is what some practitioners of ritual magic call their ceremonial knives. In some traditions, the athame is a knife with a double edged blade and short (often black) handle; other traditions require that the blade be dull, curved, wavy, or a variety of other specifications. The athame is usually used for ritual and magical purposes only, to direct energy; if something such as herbs or cord needs to be cut, another knife called a boline or white-handled knife is used. Exceptions include "kitchen witchcraft", which actively encourages the use of magical tools for mundane purposes ...

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Athame - Etymology

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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Carmen Arvale

The Carmen Arvale is the preserved chant of the Arval priests or Fratres Arvales of ancient Rome. The Arval priests were devoted to the goddess Dea Dia, and offered sacrifices to her to ensure the fertility of ploughed fields (Latin arvum). There were twelve Arval priests, chosen from patrician families. During the Roman Empire the Emperor was always an Arval priest. They retained the office for life, even if disgraced or exiled. Their most important festival, the Ambarvalia, occurred durin ...

Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland. It is one of the foundational texts of Wicca and Wicca-based Neo-paganism. The book is an attempt to portray the beliefs and rituals of an underground religious witchcraft tradition in Tuscany that had survived until Leland's claimed discovery of its existence in the 1890s. The veracity of this claim has been disputed by scholars. A critical edition of the book was released in 1999, the book's hundred-year anniversary, edited by Mario ...

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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Beltane

Beltane or Beltaine (from Irish Beáltaine or Scottish Gaelic Bealtuinn; both from Old Irish Beltene, "bright fire" from *belo-te(p)niâ) is an ancient Gaelic holiday celebrated around May 1. "Bealtaine" (pronounced IPA /ˈbʲɑlˠ.t̪ˠə.n̪ʲə/) is the name in modern Irish for the month of May. It is also the traditional first day of summer in Ireland. It is a Cross-quarter day being midpoint in the Sun's progress between the Vernal Equinox an ...

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Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Betty Ford

Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (born April 8, 1918) is the wife of President Gerald R. Ford and was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. Betty Ford - Early life. Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer is the third child and only daughter of Hortense Neahr and William Stephenson Bloomer, an industrial supply salesman. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has two older brothers, Robert and William, Jr. She grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan from age three and graduated from Central High ...