wicca

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A neo-pagan religion and religious movement first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats
Wicca is a pagan religion that practises witchcraft. Modern Western witchcraft movement. Some practitioners consider Wicca the religion of pre-Christian Europe, forced underground by the Christian church. That thesis is not accepted by historians, and modern Wicca is usually dated to the work of Gerald B. Gardner (1884-1964) and Doreen Valiente (1922-1999), who, after the repeal of the last Witchcraft Act in England (1951), went public with their cult of witchcraft, which centered on a horned god of fertility and a great earth goddess. Gardner is credited with introducing the term Wicca. So-called "Dianic" Wicca focuses on the Goddess as the supreme being and usually excludes men. Wiccans share a belief in the importance of the feminine principle, a deep respect for nature, and a pantheistic and polytheistic worldview. They practice some form of ritual magic, almost always considered good or constructive. Some are solitary practitioners; others belong to covens
A Neopagan religion and religious movement first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats
{i} neo-pagan polytheistic religion that is based on pre-Christian tradition (highly focused on nature, often viewed by non-believers as a form of witchcraft)
the name most modern day Witches use for the Craft It comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Wicce, meaning to bend or to shape This is the root word from which we get wicker
Witchcraft - pagan mysteries, earth magic
a religion influenced by pre-Christian beliefs and practices of western Europe that affirms the existence of supernatural power (as magic) and of both male and female deities who inhere in nature, and that emphasizes ritual observance of seasonal and life cycles*
a neo pagan religion that is earth based and was founded by Gardner in the 1940's
(The Craft, Craft of the Wise, modern witchcraft, Wicca Craft): Form of paganism It is related to shamanism and includes various forms of white magick
A neo-pagan reconstruction of witchcraft Most Wiccans call themselves witches, but not all witches are necessarily Wiccan [For more information see http: //www spiritonline com/wicca/about html]
A Neo-Pagan religion that was founded by Gerald Brosseau Gardner in the 1960's
It is thought that this term was originally coined by Selena Fox of the Circle Sanctuary in an effort to describe the modern religion of WitchCraft (as begun by Gerald Gardner in England in the 1950's) There is NO difference between Wicca and WitchCraft Anyone who tells you there is a difference is experimenting in the theory of Occum's Razor

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Wiccan
{i} one who belongs to the Wiccan religion, follower of Wicca (neo-pagan polytheistic religion)
Wiccan
Of or pertaining to the neo-pagan religion of Wicca
Wiccan
A follower of Wicca
Wiccan
{s} of or pertaining to wicca
wicca

    Турецкое произношение

    wîkı

    Произношение

    /ˈwəkə/ /ˈwɪkə/

    Этимология

    () A twentieth-century representation of the Old English wiċċa, in the mistaken belief that it was so pronounced. The term was introduced as Wica by Gerald Gardner (Witchcraft Today, 1954), alleging that the term was used as self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft who initiated him in 1939. The spelling Wicca is first attested in June John's 1969 King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders.
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