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Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. When we look at the records of the inquisition we find that often practitioners of magick, who did not consider themselves to be witches, would be labelled as such.  A good example of this is the  Italian Benandanti, or… Read More Ch.2 Baptism (WMB 2.e)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. The obvious connection between the name ’The Craft’ and Wicca is that ‘Craft’ is a contraction of ‘Witchcraft’.  The use of the term also occurs on a regular basis in the grimoire tradition in which it is used as… Read More Ch.2 Baptism (WMB 2.d)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. The expression “Witch Cult” was probably drawn from the title of Margaret Murray’s book The… Read More Ch.2 Baptism (WMB 2.c)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. Looking at Gardner’s writings, we see he consistently used the spelling ‘Wica’ in his books,… Read More Ch.2 Baptism (WMB 2.b)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. Chapter 2 Baptism Since emerging into the public eye in the 1950s, the tradition which… Read More Ch.2 Baptism (WMB 2.a)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. In the years from 1936-1954, Gardner was at different times a member of the Ancient Druid… Read More Ch.1 – Emergence (WMB 1.f)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. A discussion on the magickal currents around the time of the emergence of the Wiccan… Read More Ch.1 – Emergence (WMB 1.e)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. A leading light of the Golden Dawn who wrote about witchcraft was the Scottish scholar magician… Read More Ch.1 – Emergence (WMB 1.d)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. It was not just in magick, folklore and anthropology that the rising tides of… Read More Ch.1 – Emergence (WMB 1.c)

Extract from: Wicca: Magical Beginnings written by d’Este & Rankine, 2008 (Avalonia.) PB / Kindle @ https://amzn.to/3Ay4HJr. Shared here with the intention to inspire and inform the now and future generations interested in Wicca and other Pagan traditions inspired by it. What is relevant, yet often ignored about the Aradia is that it continues a trail… Read More Ch.1 – Emergence (WMB 1.b)