A Wisdom Archive on Wica

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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WICA - Old English name for the form of worship practiced by heathens.

 
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Seax-Wica is a neopagan religion loosely related to the Wiccan tradition and based on a rough reconstruction of Saxon tradition. In 1973 Raymond Buckland, an author and practitioner of Gardnerian Wicca, created a new variation of Wicca tradition, which did not break his Gardnerian Wiccan oaths. He wrote a book called The Tree as its definitive work. It was published in 1974 by Samuel Weiser Inc. There is also an online Books of ... Including:

• Seax-Wica - Openness
• Seax-Wica - Organization

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The Seax tradition does not employ any secrecy oath. The official books of Seax-Wica don't intend to omit or misrepresent the tradition although they may be a bit sparse. The Tree doesn't mention, how a solitary practitioner with no consecrated tools available gets started, as consecrated tools are used to cast the circle, and tools are consecrated within the already cast circle. It is hoped that the upcoming new edition will offer wisdom on this issue. For now, one must find someone with consecrated tools, or visit one of several websites ...

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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 is credited with re-introducing the word 'Wicca' into the English language, although he himself used the spelling 'Wica' in his published work of 1954. The spelling 'Wicca' is now used almost exclusively, (Seax-Wica being the only major use of the four-letter spelling). In Old English wicca meant "A wizard, soothsayer, sorcerer, magician" (Bosworth, 1898 [1]). The word has long been out of use. Its modern English descendant is the word witch. Other disputed derivations are from the Old English roots wic ...

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Stregheria shares commonalities with both Wicca and polytheistic Reconstructionism. Stregheria is one of a number of ethnicity or culture-oriented traditions of religious witchcraft, such as Celtic Wicca, Kemetic Wicca, or Seax-Wica. Some Stregheria members attempt to distance themselves from Wicca, in a manner similar to Pagan Reconstructionism, or argue that their belief system pre-dates it[13]. Some adherents of these traditions also reject the label ...

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Dianic Wicca is attractive to lesbian pagans because it is a religion that welcomes them and celebrates their perspectives on feminism, sexism, and women's empowerment within patriarchal culture. The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men--one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men. The Minoan Sisterhood was founded as the Women's counterpart t ...

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There are many traditions, sub-traditions, and lineages of Wicca; among these is Solitary Wicca, which is Wicca practiced by oneself and often in secret. Other Wiccan traditions include: Alexandrian Wicca Blue Star Wicca Celtic Wicca Christian Wicca Correllian Nativist Church (Correllian Wicca) Dianic or Feminist Wicca Eclectic Wicca Faery Wicca Feri Tradition Gardnerian Wicca Kemetic Wicca Odyssean Wicca Pagans for Peace Tradition Seax-Wica Shakti Wicca Stregher ...

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List of pagans - Wicca. Adler, Margot - author, journalist, Wiccan Priestess and Elder, NPR correspondent in New York City Beyerl, Paul - founder of The Rowan Tree Church Baudino, Gael - author, mostly fantasy (Dianic Wiccan) Billinghurst, Frances - founder of the Temple of the Dark Moon (Alexandrian Wiccan) Buckland, Raymond - author of Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft and many others, and founder of Seax-Wica Budapest, Z. - lesbian Pagan teacher writer et ...

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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 ... Including:

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• Gerald Gardner - Bibliography
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Like Wicca, Stregheria uses a pentagram as an important symbol. Grimassi and other members wear a pentagram ring, which Grimassi claims was also used by Roman Pythagoreans. Stregheria uses the ritual tools of cup, wand, pentacle and blade, which are seen in the suits of the tarot and amongst many systems of Western occultism[9]. Stregheria rituals take place in a circle, with an altar facing North. Ritual actions include prayer, and the blessing of food.

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1. ^  Old English wicce, feminine, corresponding to wicca, witch n.1, both of which are app. derivatives of wiccian, witch v.1. (definition) 1. a. A female magician, sorceress; in later use esp. a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their co-operation to perform supernatural acts. (oldest attested use in Old English) c1000 ÆLFRIC Saints' Lives vii. 209: "Animað...þa reðan wiccan, Seo þe ðus awent þurh wiccecræft ...

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