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| Subject: Re: There are many different branches of Wicca | |
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Author: Anonymous |
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Date Posted: 00:01:23 07/21/10 Wed >There are many different branches of Wicca and >Witchcraft in which some new students may or may not >already know. What type of Wicca does one want to >practice? This is where one really has to do their >homework. One MUST take the time to do research on >thier own to figure this one out. Here are many >examples of the different branches of Wicca and >Witchcraft: > >1. Gardnerian Wicca >2. Alexandrian Wicca >3. Dianic Wicca >4. Eclectic Wicca >5. Georgian Wicca >6. Celtic Wicca >7. 1734 Wicca >8. British Traditional Druidic Witchcraft...NOT TO BE >CONFUSED WITH THE DRUID RELIGION. >9. Chaos Magic >10. Faery Wicca >11. Hereditary Witchcraft >12. Kitchen Witch(Hedge Witch) >13. Pecti-Wita >14. Seax-Wica >15. Strega >16. Teutonic/Nordic >17. Sylvan Tradition >18. Shamanism >19. Solitary >20. Witta > >There probably are more out there but I just wanted to >type out a few. Over time I will give a brief >explanation of each Group. >Let's start with Gardnerian Wicca: > >Gardnerian Wicca was founded by Gerald Gardner, a >British Civil Servant, in the 1950's after England >repealed the laws making witchcraft illegal. This >obviously opened the door for Gardner to become more >open. Gardner initiated Doreen Valiente into his coven >as well as Alex Sanders. With Doreen's help they >reshaped and restructured the covens with a lot of >influences by the teachings of Charles Godfrey Leland >and in time took on simularities of Italian Witchcraft >as well as creations of their own workings. This >tradition is mainly coven based and follows an >extremely traditional path with a hierarchical grade >structure unsuitable for solitary practice. Today it >still adheres to the old time values of secrecy and >new initiates are pledge to take oath upon initation. >In Gardnerian Wicca there are sexual over tones, they >prefer to go skyclad during circle rituals...meaning >to go nude. This tradition focuses on the God and >goddess who are equally balanced and they do celebrate >the 8 sabbats as well as esbats. Gardner considered >the occult witchcraft practiced in England to be the >remnants of ancient earth-based worship system and his >wiccan tradition was his attempt to restore that >ancient religious system. Gardnerian Wicca was brought >to America around approximately 1963 with the help of >Raymond Buckland. Today Wicca and other traditions are >on the rise due to many different reasons. The Elders >in this Country over the years have been fighting very >hard to receieve the same rights and laws as other >religions in America. > >Finally, a ruling made by our government is allowing >to recognize the pentagram as one of the many religion > symbols that will be allowed on grave stones for our >brave fallen soldiers whom are Wiccan, Pagans, >neo-Pagans, Druids, Witches...etc. whom fought in wars >past and present. Before April 2007 the Government >recognized 38 religion symbols but refused to >acknowledge the pentagram as one of them, until now. >I'm very glad to see this was finally done. > >I will post more on the different branches of Wicca >over a period of time. They will be under this section >so you'll have to click on each "reply" to read them. > >Blessed Be, >~ Autumn Silver Sky [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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 Re: There are many different branches of Wicca | Anonymous | 00:29:39 07/21/10 Wed |