Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

by Aleister Crowley and subsequently went on to found the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

Romuva ( religion ) | Romuva is the Neopagan revival of the ethnic religion of the Lithuanians and the Balts.

The Wiccan Rede () is a statement that provides the key moral system in the Neopagan religion of Wicca and other related Witchcraft-based faiths.

A Book of Shadows is a book containing religious texts and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

Dievturība is a Neopagan religious movement, which claims to be a modern revival of the folk religion of the Latvians before Christianization in the 13th century.

Since the twentieth century a number of magical practitioners, including adherents of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, have begun to utilise the concept of familiars, due to their association with older forms of magic.

Alexandrian Wicca is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders ( also known as " King of the Witches ") who, with his wife Maxine Sanders, established the tradition in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

Although some twentieth and twenty-first century Neopagan authors, such as Rae Beth, have claimed that the British cunning folk were followers of a surviving, pre-Christian " pagan " religion, this is something rejected by historians.

Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.

* Great Goddess, also known as the Triple Goddess, an important feminine deity of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

Responsible for writing much of the early Gardnerian religious liturgy, in later years she also helped to play a big part in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to wider public attention through the publication of a string of books on the subject.

In the 20th century, with the rise of the Neopagan movement across the world, Finnish Neopaganism arose as a reconstructed form of the old religion.

Wotanism is the name of a Germanic Neopagan religion or socio-political current partly based on the ideas of David Lane.

Lois Bourne is an influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, having been involved in it from the early 1960s, and has written a number of books on the subject.

Finnish Neopaganism ( or ; also formerly ) is a Neopagan religious system that attempts to revive old Finnish paganism, the pre-Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finnish people.

Unlike the previous dabbling with occult and romantic pre-Christian themes pursued by rock bands in the 1960s and early 1970s ( as typified by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Donovan ), these new artists were earnest subscribers to Neopagan religion ( in the case of Pendderwen ), and ritual magick ( in the case of P-Orridge and Balance Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth ).

Frank Stewart Farrar ( 28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000 ), who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well.

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 a historical basis for his new faith.

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* Athame: A typically black-handled and double-edged ritual knife used in Wicca and other derivative forms of Neopagan witchcraft.

Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith she supported.

Neopagan movements emerged in Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, influenced by the wider occult movement ; these included Thelema, Wicca and Adonism.

This attitude is common within Wicca and many other Neopagan religions.

Wicca, another Neopagan movement, also applies the term " mythology " to its stories.

Although many of Gardner's claims have since come under intensive criticism from sources both within and without the Neopagan community, his works remain the most important founding stone of Wicca.

Western magical traditions include hermetic magic and its many offshoots predominantly inspired by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as well as Wicca and some other Neopagan religions and contemporary forms of paganism.

* Persons of Pagan and Neopagan faiths ; including, but not limited to, Wicca ; also often take new names.

She became active in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest, a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca.

* Triple Goddess ( Neopaganism ), a concept in Wicca and other Neopagan belief systems: sometimes a universal, global, " Great Goddess " who is threefold ; sometimes a single goddess as maiden, matron and crone ; and sometimes three sisters.

Having had a significant influence in the history of Wicca, she has been referred to as " the mother of modern Witchcraft " and is today is widely revered in the Wiccan and wider Neopagan community.

Technopaganism is an umbrella term that characterizes several different beliefs and practices in Neopaganism ( which includes faiths such as Wicca and Neo-druidry ) in reference to the place of technology in Neopagan practice.

Esoteric groups that could be considered to be RHP include Theosophy, as well as various Neopagan religions such as Druidry, Wicca, Kemetism, Celtic Neopaganism, Slavic Neopaganism, Germanic Neopaganism, Nova Roma, Hellenic Neopaganism and the Rada cult of Haitian Vodou, most of Thelema, and certain traditions of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, or the Gnostic Catholic Church.

On the Neopagan continuum from eclectic to reconstructionist, Celtic Wicca is at the eclectic end: as historically inaccurate as most forms of Neo-druidism, and contrasting firmly with Celtic Reconstructionism, which emphasizes cultural focus and historical accuracy.

The Pagan rock label can include bands like Inkubus Sukkubus and The Moon and the Nightspirit who explicitly state their allegiance to Neopaganism, bands like Abney Park who have Neopagans in the band but do not label themselves as pagan rock, and bands like Unto Ashes who sing songs involving occult and Neopagan themes but avoid publicly labeling their personal belief systems.

The term, thealogy, increasingly appeared in feminist literature associated with the Neopagan Goddess movement during the 1980s to 1990s.

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.

Outside of the television series, a Book of Shadows is considered to be a collection of magical and religious texts of Wicca and other Neopagan and witchcraft traditions, containing the core rituals, magical practices, ethics and philosophy of a practitioner.

There are also those who practice a combination of Neopagan / Wiccan and Christian beliefs.

It deals with the Neopagan, Pagan, and Wiccan faiths.

Despite the strip's frequent references to Pagan and Wiccan sub-culture, it has a substantial Christian following as well as a Neopagan audience.

Woodford-Grimes has left an enduring legacy in the Wiccan and greater Neopagan community who recognise her as one of the earliest known adherents of her faith.

After her identity was revealed, she became well known in Wiccan circles, for instance the Neopagan bard Francis Cameron delivered a prose interpretation of her life and involvement with the Craft, written as if from her own point of view, entitled " Dafo's Tale ", at The Charge of the Goddess conference 2010, held at Conway Hall in London.

Regardless, those traditions were not ideally suited for the goal of creating a place for public Neopagan worship, nor did any of these reflect the ritual style that the coven ( and, by extension, the church ) were adopting — with the exception of Pagan Way ( an Outer Court system created by Gardnerian initiates ) that had a direct influence upon Wiccan Church of Canada liturgy.

The Odyssean tradition is a British Traditional-like Eclectic tradition of Wicca — with a public Wiccan priesthood providing religious services for a Neopagan laity.

Beyond the emphasis on public ministry, the Odyssean tradition is characterized by the following: it is an Eclectic tradition in its origins that has a strong British Traditional Wicca style to its forms of organization and initiation ; although it emulates British Traditional the tradition's approach to ritual is more flexible and may often be less structured than many British Traditional Wiccans would be comfortable with ; the tradition rejects the concepts of Neopagan monism and Neopagan monotheism ; the tradition does accept the base-line Wiccan concept of Neopagan duotheism but does encourage students and seekers alike to choose to affiliate with a particular Pagan pantheon and encourages the devotion to a deity ( or group of deities ).

Some Wiccan and Neopagan organizations have chosen to achieve formal legal status by becoming non-profit corporations within their states or provinces, and sometimes they additionally obtain tax-exempt status in the United States under § 501 ( c )( 3 ) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Previous religious affiliation-Christianity ( various forms )-56 %, Agnostic or Atheist-10 %, Wiccan / Neopagan / etc.