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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: Let me challenge you to see what Wicca and witchcraft are really all about... All you have to do is go to one of the official websites of witchcraft (WorthFinding.com, 2002) From Witchology.com Visitors: It's great to be informed with the latest pagan news and events. Great job! Keep up the good work! (Sven, 29th April, 2001) About Leo Ruickbie's Books: I highly recomend Witchcraft out of the Shadows to anyone with the slightest interest in the "Craft". (Blogcritics.com, 2004)
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Gerald Gardner is often considered to be the 'father' of Wicca, but whilst Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions today, Gardner's own writings remain largely neglected. There is a reason for this. Rambling and historically inaccurate, Gardner's works cannot be read as serious studies of witchcraft. However, for the insight they provide into Gardner's vision of witchcraft they are indispensable to the student of Wicca.
Charles G. Leland claimed his book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches was a record of the legends, spells and rituals of La Vecchia Religione, the 'Old Religion', as told to him by the witch Maddalena. Undoubtedly a fabrication by Leland, this was one of the key texts used by Gerald Gardner in the creation of the Wiccan religion and many of the rituals used by today's Witches contain poetry derived from this book. Yet it remains largely unknown and unread. Contains the original Italian text with English translations. Leland himself adds fascinating if bogus chapters on the supposed discovery and meaning of this 'ancient lore'.
Read the story of one woman's journey into Witchcraft. In The Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess Phyllis Curott tells her story of transformation from New York lawyer to High Priestess. Read how she finds herself and her place in the world, how she confronts her dark side and discovers the power of the Goddess. Take it with a pinch of salt.
Angela Bourke's The Burning of Bridget Cleary is a fascinating re-telling of one of the most gruesome atrocities committed against an accused Witch. Bourke tells the story of how Bridget, a housewife in a small village in rural Ireland at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, was murdered by her husband, Michael Cleary, because he believed that she was a Fairy Witch. Bourke also examines the wider significances of the tragedy in a thoroughly researched and well presented book that should be read by anyone with an interest in the history of Witchcraft and in the folklore of Faerie.
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