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Wicca AKA Modern Pagan Witchcraft
- Published_at:2013-07-09
- Category:Education
- Channel:OathBoundSecrets
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- description: ★ OathBoundSecrets is a collaboration channel dedicated to distributing free information about Wicca and Witchcraft. Like our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/OathBoundSecrets ★ In this video I explain the way I use the word "Wicca" as synonymous with the modern pagan witchcraft movement. The inclusive use of the term "Wicca"—referring to the entirety of modern pagan witchcraft—has been traced to Britain in the early 1960s, when it was used by various groups and publicised through use in adverts, magazines, and other literary sources. It was later adopted by figures like Alex Sanders and Gavin and Yvonne Frost, who took it to the United States. Witches in the United States often used the term Wicca to refer exclusively to British traditions of modern pagan witchcraft. During the 1990s, some witches attempted to distance themselves from the New Age movement by referring to themselves as "Traditional Witches" rather than "Wiccan" as the term had gained an increasingly eclectic character in its usage. ★ The word "Wicca" derives from the Early Medieval language of Old English, however its modern use differs from the medieval use. Originally the word was pronounced "witchah" and referred to a male witch. The feminine form of the word was "wicce". It was during the 20th century that the Old English word was adopted, with a different meaning and pronunciation. In reference to modern pagan witchcraft, it is pronounced with a hard "ck" sound rather than a soft "ch" sound. Doyle White suggested that the early Wiccans adopted the term "wicca" as the basis for the name of their burgeoning faith to make it clear that modern pagan witchcraft was a new religious movement, taking inspiration from medieval ritual magic. ★ Gerald Gardner, a popular pioneer of modern pagan witchcraft, never used the term "Wicca" in either sense that it is used today. He referred to modern pagan witchcraft simply as "witchcraft" or "the witch-cult" and practitioners of witchcraft as "the wica". The fact that Gardner spelt the word with one "c" instead of two "cc" may be due to his poor grasp of spelling, punctuation, and grammar, something caused by the fact that he was self-educated and possibly also influenced by dyslexia. "What are [the witches] then? They are the people who call themselves the Wica, the "wise people", who practise the age‑old rites and who have, along with much superstition and herbal knowledge, preserved an occult teaching and working processes which they themselves think to be magic or witchcraft." - Gerald Gardner, Witchcraft Today (1954). ★ Charles Cardell, another pioneer of modern pagan witchcraft, used the term "Wiccen" to refer not just to members of his own tradition, but to all modern pagan witches. Placing an advert in Light magazine, the journal of the College of Psychic Science, entitled "The Craft of the Wiccens" in 1958. The advert asked fellow "Wiccens" to get in contact with him. ★ During the early 1960s, as increasing numbers of modern pagan witches learned of the Old English term "wicca", the etymological origin of the Modern term "witch". The earliest known published reference for the word "Wicca" to be an advertisement published in a 1962 issue of Fate magazine; in this, a Cardiff-based group of Pagan Witches advertised a tradition as "Wicca--Dianic and Aradian". Another early use could be found from December 1965, in the penultimate issue of Pentagram, the newsletter of the Witchcraft Research Association. Here, a small column on Halloween made reference to "the Craft of the Wiccan", apparently referring to the entire modern pagan witchcraft community. ★ Alex Sanders (founder of the Alexandrian tradition) used the terms "Wicca" and "the Wicca" in reference to the entire modern pagan witchcraft community. One of Sanders' initiates, Stewart Farrar, described "Wicca" as "the witches' name for their Craft" in his book What Witches Do (1971).
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