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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...
- to
become the
traditional text for
Gardnerian Wicca. In
forms of
British Traditional Wicca,
which include Gardnerian Wicca,
Alexandrian Wicca and Algard...
- some of its
definitive religious texts and
founding the
tradition of
Gardnerian Wicca. Born into an upper-middle-class
family in Blundellsands, Lancashire...
- 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...
- 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...
- or the
Gospel of the Witches, and as such is
mainly attributed to the
Gardnerian and
Aradian covens. Gardner's
Witchcraft Today was
published in 1954....
- 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...
- witches,
others avoid the term due to its
negative connotations.
Gardnerian Wicca, or
Gardnerian Witchcraft, is the
oldest tradition of Wicca. The tradition...
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figure in the
history of Wicca, of
which he was a high
priest in both the
Gardnerian and Seax-Wica traditions.
According to his
written works,
primarily Witchcraft...