Witchcraft & Wicca
The origins of modern witchcraft, Wiccan belief and practice, the Book of Shadows, and the eight sabbats of the wheel of the year.
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Witchcraft and Wicca: A Complete Overview
The word "witch" has carried radically different meanings across the centuries: cunning villager, church-sanctioned villain, Romantic visionary, and, in…
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Origins of Modern Witchcraft
Modern witchcraft did not appear out of nowhere in the middle of the twentieth century. The religion that Gerald Gardner began to publicise in 1949, and…
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Wiccan Beliefs and Practice
Wiccan practice is, at its root, a religion of reverence: for the natural world, for the cycle of the seasons, and for the practitioner's own…
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What Is a Book of Shadows
A Book of Shadows is the working book of a Wiccan or witch, the place where rituals, invocations, recipes, correspondences, and personal records of the…
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The Eight Sabbats of the Wiccan Year
The Wheel of the Year is the annual cycle of eight festivals observed by most Wiccans and many other neopagans. The Wheel joins the four solar holidays —…