Wicca

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title: Wicca
text: Wicca, also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion. Considered a new religious movement by scholars of religion, the path evolved from Western esotericism, developed in England during the first half of the 20th century, and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant. Wicca draws upon ancient pagan and 20th-century hermetic motifs for theological and ritual purposes. Doreen Valiente joined Gardner in the 1950s, furt
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description: Modern syncretic pagan religion based on white magic, occultism and paganism
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca
date created: 2001-10-16T21:42:10Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T09:15:06Z
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