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What is Wicca?

Join my online seminar, "Magic in the Ancient World!" Tickets here: https://www.speakeasy.com/event/magic-ancient-2 Uploaded 29-10-20 Join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Join my 15-person online seminars here: https://www.speakeasy.com/speaker/andrew-henry Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast Thumbnail Photograph Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The photograph is attributed to Wikimedia Commons user Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Wiccan_'Book_of_Shadows'.jpg References: Ethan Doyle White, Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft, (Sussex Academic Press, 2016) Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folkore and Neopaganism in America, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) Ronald Hutton, The Triump of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, (Oxford University Press, 2019) Leon A. van Gulik, “The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and Renewal in Wicca,” in Magic and Witchery in the Modern West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Patricia Iolana, “Pagan Scholarship from a Pagan Perspective,” Religious Studies Project. Photo Attributions: Beltane Altar, Flickr user RaeVynn Sands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_altar_(1).PNG Activist photograph, Wikimedia user Ycco, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_event_in_the_US_(1).PNG God and Goddess busts, Wikimedia user Ντεβ, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horned_god_and_moon_goddess.jpg Pentacle altar, Wikimedia user, Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Pentacle_on_wiccan_altar.jpg Wicker Horned God, Wiccan Pentacle, all from Ethan Doyle White: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wicker_Horned_God_outside_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_Pentacle_on_display_in_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg Diana sculpture, copyright wikimedia user, David Monniaux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Falguiere_Diana_p1070131.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Join my online seminar, "Magic in the Ancient World!" Tickets here: https://www.speakeasy.com/event/magic-ancient-2

Uploaded 29-10-20

Join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast
One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast
Join my 15-person online seminars here: https://www.speakeasy.com/speaker/andrew-henry
Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast

Thumbnail Photograph Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The photograph is attributed to Wikimedia Commons user Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Wiccan_'Book_of_Shadows'.jpg

References:
Ethan Doyle White, Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in
Modern Pagan Witchcraft, (Sussex Academic Press, 2016)


Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folkore and Neopaganism
in America, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)


Ronald Hutton, The Triump of the Moon: A History of Modern
Pagan Witchcraft, (Oxford University Press, 2019)


Leon A. van Gulik, “The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and
Renewal in Wicca,” in Magic and Witchery in the Modern West
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)


Patricia Iolana, “Pagan Scholarship from a Pagan Perspective,”
Religious Studies Project.


Photo Attributions:

Beltane Altar, Flickr user RaeVynn Sands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_altar_(1).PNG

Activist photograph, Wikimedia user Ycco, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_event_in_the_US_(1).PNG

God and Goddess busts, Wikimedia user Ντεβ, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horned_god_and_moon_goddess.jpg

Pentacle altar, Wikimedia user, Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Pentacle_on_wiccan_altar.jpg

Wicker Horned God, Wiccan Pentacle, all from Ethan Doyle White: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wicker_Horned_God_outside_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_Pentacle_on_display_in_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg

Diana sculpture, copyright wikimedia user, David Monniaux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Falguiere_Diana_p1070131.jpg



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