Wiccan Traditions

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Wiccan covens, Dianic Wicca, Faery Wicca, Gardnerian Wicca, New Forest coven, Universal Eclectic Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Odyssean Wicca, Bricket Wood coven, Blue Star Wicca, Circle of Oak and Mistletoe, Covenant of the Goddess, Celtic Wicca, New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, British Traditional Wicca, McFarland Dianic, Coven of the Far Flung Net, Seax-Wica, Georgian Wicca, Faerie faith, Correllian Nativist Tradition, Panthean temple, Central Valley Wicca, The Apple Branch, Aquarian Tabernacle Church, Inclusive Wicca Tradition, Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca, The Rowan Tree Church, Algard Wicca. Excerpt: The New Forest coven were a group of Neopagan witches or Wiccans who allegedly met around the area of the New Forest in southern England during the 1930s and 1940s. According to his own claims, in September 1939, a British occultist named Gerald Gardner was initiated into the coven, and subsequently used its beliefs and practices as a basis from which he formed the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. Gardner described some of his experiences with the coven in his published books Witchcraft Today (1954) and The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959), although on the whole revealed little about it, saying he was respecting the privacy of its members. Meanwhile, another occultist, Louis Wilkinson, corroborated Gardner's claims by revealing in an interview with the writer Francis X. King that he too had encountered the coven, and expanded on some of the information that Gardner had provided about them. As the Neopagan religion of Wicca developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century, some of the figures who were researching its origins, such as Aidan Kelly and later Leo Ruickbie, came to the conclusion that the New Forest coven had never existed, and that it was simply a fictional invention of Gardner's to provide...