OLD RELIGION (The): Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid-14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Estruscian Italian belief system. The Old Religion is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God. Also known as Strega, Stregheria, and La Vecchia Religione.

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VECCHIA RELIGIONE (La): IItalian Witchcraft, founded in the mid -14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Estruscian Italian belief system. La Vecchia Religione  is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God.  Also known as The Old Religion, Strega and Stregheria.

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EARTH RELIGION: Any religion which reveres the Earth, and Nature, as the manifestation of the Divine, and calls for harmony with Nature and all life and for ecology. Many pagan traditions are Earth religions.

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OLD RELIGION (The): Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid-14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Estruscian Italian belief system. The Old Religion is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God. Also known as Strega, Stregheria, and La Vecchia Religione.

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VECCHIA RELIGIONE (La): Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid -14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Etruscan Italian belief system. La Vecchia Religione is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God. Also known as The Old Religion, Strega and Stregheria.

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OLD PATH - One of many names for the religion of Wica.

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OLD WAYS - One of many names for the religion of Wica.

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OLD RELIGION - Witchcraft or Paganism that continued into the Middle Age. (NAD)

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NATURE RELIGION - a symbolic center and the cluster of beliefs, behaviors and values that encircles it based on wilderness identification as well as a passionate concern for place and easterly in society. (Catherine Albanese) (NAD)

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Dharma

Indian (Bharat) expression for the "eternal law of the cosmos", "inherent property in the nature of the things". -Origin Sanskrit, literally 'decree, custom, or property of something'. From spiritual point of view it means - characteristics of truth, honesty, and justice - Also it is often used in the sense of "religion", e.g. Christian religion, Hindu religion (dharma) etc. [The word is accepted in New English Oxford Dictionary].€€€

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FAMILIARS - Either a Witch's pet animal which has been trained to be a magickal helper, or an artificially created elemental which performs the same functions as the animal friend.

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GARDNERIAN - A tradition of Witchcraft descended from the teachings of Gerald Gardner.

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GNOMES - an entity or elemental that dwells in the plane of Earth or is associated with the EARTH Element.

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GREEN MAN - One of the many faces/naspects of the God.

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HALLOWS - name used by some traditions for Samhain, or Halloween

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HANDFASTING - Wiccan equivalent of a wedding. It can be made legal if the Priestess and/nor Priest are registered as clergy with the local authorities, or it may only be considered binding within the coven.

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HEATHEN - One who dances on the Heath. Another word for Pagan.

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HIGH PRIEST/ESS - Technically speaking, a Witch who has received the third degree initiation. More usually, the male and female leaders of a coven.

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DEOSIL - clockwise. Traditional direction for working building magick.

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DRAWING DOWN THE MOON - Ritual invocation of the spirit of the Goddess into the body of the High Priestess by the High Priest.

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DIANIC - Tradition initiated by An Forfreedom. Members are both male and female, but focuses on Feminine leadership.

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