Witchology, n., the study of Witches & Witchcraftby Dr Leo Ruickbie Study and learn the history of Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Magic and the Occult with our courses and resources |
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What is Witchcraft? That's what this website is here to find out. Witchology.com is the website of WICA - the Witchcraft Information Centre and Archive - founded in 1999 by Dr Leo Ruickbie as a research and education provider specialising in the areas of Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Magic (Magick) and the Occult. We have been online continuously since 2000. WICA Recommended by: Presumably Buffy was born with her powers, but we are not all that lucky. Study for your diploma in witchcraft at http://www.wica.org.uk. (The Guardian, 2001) From Witchology.com Visitors: The website is excellent and well worth visiting... Pagan themed web pages are so hard to come by and this one is fantastic please visit it if you can. (Nancy Rowina, 12th Sept, 2005) About Leo Ruickbie's Books: Witchcraft out of the Shadows [is] a fine addition to anyone's Pagan Studies library (Hearth of Arianrhod, 2004)
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Open Source WiccaReleased under a Creative Commons licence, Open Source Wicca is a revolutionary approach to one of the fastest growing religions today. Based on the Open Source software movement, Open Source Wicca aims to make the 'source code' of Wicca accessible to everyone to further research, development and understanding. Open Source WiccaIntroductionThe beginnings of Wicca are disputed and shrouded in mystery. From what we know of it, it was authoritarian, hierarchical and resistant to change - Gerald Gardner, its founder, kept tight reins on his group. But he failed to control it. Since then it has grown through an unfettered process of modification and adaptation amongst a networked, decentralised and unregulated community. Gardner's own approach to the occult tradition from out of which he formed Wicca was 'open source', although he would have been unfamiliar with the terminology. Those he inspired have similarly treated his work as 'open source' and have developed it for their own needs and in their own ways. This has endowed Wicca with an unparalled vigour and dynamism. What began as a small secret society a little more than fifty years ago has since become one of the fastest growing religions today with some predicting that it will be the third largest religion in the USA by 2012. It was Gardner's own approach that inspired me to launch this open source project, but what really motivated me was people's continuing misunderstanding of what Wicca is really all about and the absence of authorative sources of information. Then, when I thought about it a little more, I realised that there was something more fundamental in this approach - no one should control access to spirituality and everyone should be free to create it for themselves. Dr Leo Ruickbie The Open Source Wicca ProjectOpen Source Wicca: The Gardnerian Tradition
Getting InvolvedHave you also been inspired by the idea of making Wicca open source? You can take the material published here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence and do almost anything you like with it, put it on your own website, perform it on stage, even try it out for yourself. You can also get directly involved with this project and contribute your own work and ideas. If you want to get involved, then see the contact page for information on how to get in touch. MiscellaneousThe Open Source Wicca LogoThe Open Source Wicca logo is based on the copyleft symbol showing a reversed (c) surrounding a pentagram. Project Licencing
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