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Gardnerian Wicca, or
Gardnerian witchcraft, is a
tradition in the
neopagan religion of Wicca,
whose members can
trace initiatory descent from
Gerald Gardner...
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known – by the New
Forest coven in 1939. Gardner's form of Wicca, the
Gardnerian tradition, was
spread by both him and his
followers like the High Priestesses...
- had
Stone Age roots—and
remains the
underlying theological basis of his
Gardnerian tradition.
Gardner claimed that the
names of
these deities should be kept...
- to
become the
traditional text for
Gardnerian Wicca. In
forms of
British Traditional Wicca,
which include Gardnerian Wicca,
Alexandrian Wicca and Algard...
- to
study and
practise ceremonial magic. In 1963, he was
initiated into
Gardnerian Wicca before founding his own coven,
through which he
merged many aspects...
- some of its
definitive religious texts and
founding the
tradition of
Gardnerian Wicca. Born into an upper-middle-class
family in Blundellsands, Lancashire...
- used at an altar,
inside a
magic circle. In the
traditional system of
Gardnerian magic,
there was as an
established idea of
covens which were
groups composed...
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United Kingdom in the 1960s.
Alexandrian Wicca is
similar in many ways to
Gardnerian Wicca, and
receives regular mention in
books on
Wicca as one of the religion's...
- witches,
others avoid the term due to its
negative connotations.
Gardnerian Wicca, or
Gardnerian Witchcraft, is the
oldest tradition of Wicca. The tradition...
- organisation, it is very
similar to
British Traditional Wicca groups such as
Gardnerian Wicca, however, it does not
trace its
initiatory line to one of the old...
