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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.

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What Ruickbie has done is use real scholarship to illuminate the murky beginnings of Witchcraft yet still leave us with a sense of respect, tinged with wonder. (Alan Richardson, 2005)

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Witchcraft out of the Shadows: A Complete History"Witchcraft out of the Shadows: A Complete History is an engaging book which deserves to be the benchmark for all future analyses of the Craft."

Open Source WiccaFaustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Legend


Histories of the Barbarians: Vandals, Goths and FranksBeowulf in Anglo-Saxon and English Translation


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Voodoo Caused Quake, Claims Minister

A minister in Northern Ireland has blamed Voodoo for the earthquake catastrophe that has hit Haiti, saying that Voodoo was a ‘dangerous and destructive religion, involving the worship of evil spirits’.

Witches Cast Spell for Haiti

Witches across the world joined forces to cast a global spell to help the people of Haiti. Rev Terry Power, a High Priest of the Correllian Nativist Tradition of Wicca, issued a call to all witches to join him in performing a ritual for Haiti.

Robertson Blames Quake on Devil Pact

American evangelist Pat Robertson called the earthquake that has devastated Haiti a “blessing in disguise”. Speaking on the Christian Broadcasting Network on Wednesday 6 January, Robertson told viewers that the Haitians “got together and swore a pact to the Devil”.

New Witch for Wookey HoleNew Witch for Wookey Hole

When Wookey Hole Caves advertised for a witch they were inundated with 3,000 applications for the Ł50,000 job. In scenes reminiscent of a Witches’ Sabbat, some 300 finalists with broomsticks and pointed hats queued for hours to take part in what one newspaper called the Hex Factor.

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Has Michael Jackson come back fom the dead? Speculation reaches fever pitch as reports of sightings come in from all over the world. Are we witnessing genuine paranormal phenomena or mass hysteria?

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Pagan for Chaplain at Syracuse U. (ABC News)
Mary Hudson is the second pagan chaplain to be appointed at a U.S. college.
Teacher suspended for denying Wiccan altar (The Des Moines Register)
A Guthrie Center teacher this week received a five-day unpaid suspension for insubordination for not allowing a student to build a Wiccan altar in his shop class - discipline he said he still doesn’t agree with.
Teacher suspended for denying Wiccan altar (The Des Moines Register)
A Guthrie Center teacher received an unpaid suspension this week for not allowing a student to build a Wiccan altar in his shop class.
Iowa teacher on leave over Wiccan altar (The Gazette)
GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) – A high school senior’s desire to build a Wiccan altar in shop class has forced a community debate about free expression. Dale Halferty, who has taught industrial arts at Guthrie Center High School for three years, was placed on paid leave Monday after he acknowledged to district officials that he told [...]
Iowa teacher on leave over Wiccan altar (The Gazette)
GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) – A high school senior’s desire to build a Wiccan altar in shop class has forced a community debate about free expression.
Teacher on leave in Wiccan dispute (Omaha World-Herald)
An Iowa industrial arts teacher has been placed on paid leave after telling a student he couldn't build a Wiccan altar in shop class.
Celebrities empathizing with West Memphis Three campaign for their release (M...
Seventeen years after police discovered the bodies of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, actor Johnny Depp provoked the CBS newsmagazine " 48 Hours Mystery " to examine the case of the so-called West Memphis Three.That case — in which three teenagers were convicted of murdering Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore in 1993 — has for years been among the loudest claims of wrongful ...
Johnny Depp takes a stand for convict (CNN)
You may or may not have heard about Johnny Depp's crusade. He has long been the most private of movie stars, but this Saturday night, he will break character when he appears on CBS' investigative news show "48 Hours Mystery" to defend the West Memphis Three, who as teenagers were found guilty of the hideous 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Lisa Derrick: Evangelicals Throw Rocks at Haitian Religious Service (The Huff...
Tuesday, Evangelicals violently disrupted a traditional religious ceremony in the Cite Soleil slum, located just outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. According to AFP: Police...
Johnny Depp takes a stand (Entertainment Weekly)
By Owen Gleiberman Owen Gleiberman on a must-see movie before star's Saturday interview in support of West Memphis Three

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