In the Egyptologist Margaret Murray 's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) and The God of the Witches (1933), in which she dealt with what she believed had been a historical Witch …

Mar 17, 2025 · Wicca, a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship and see it as a religion based on pre-Christian traditions of northern and …

For a long time, Wicca was seen as being simply a minor sect, or cult. However, with the rise of solitary practitioners describing themselves as Wiccans, the faith went from becoming simply a …

Oct 2, 2002 · Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition popularised by Gerald Brosseau Gardner. It emphasises spells and rituals and honours a Triple Goddess and a Horned God.

May 6, 2019 · Wicca is actually a religion, albeit a fairly new one, which is based on ancient practices. Although it was founded by a guy named Gerald Gardner back in the 1950s, it is still …

Mar 23, 2018 · She wrote several books on medieval religion centered around witch cults in medieval Europe that inspired British seekers to create their own covens and structure worship …

What constitutes “witchcraft” and how its practitioners have been viewed throughout the centuries in the western world has changed dramatically. From folk practices, to church hysteria and …

Margaret Murray, the anthropologist who advanced the theory, called the religion a “Witch-cult,” and asserted that the surviving practitioners were organized into 13-member covens.

Mar 18, 2019 · Also known as Pagan Witchcraft, Wicca is a religious movement that practices modern paganism. The movement was introduced in England in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a …

Aug 30, 2021 · Wicca, an alternative minority religion whose adherents, regardless of gender, call themselves witches, began in the U.K. in the 1940s. Wicca and Witchcraft are part of the …