Valiente felt that the influence of Crowley on the Charge was too obvious, and she did not want the Craft associated with Crowley.

The initial verse version by Doreen Valiente consisted of eight verses, the second of which was:

Valiente's identification was based on references Gardner made to a woman he called " Old Dorothy " which Valiente remembered.

Ruickbie, Hutton, and others further argue that much of what has been published of Gardnerian Wicca, as Gardner's practice came to be known by, was written by Blake, Yeats, Valiente and Crowley and contains borrowings from other identifiable sources.

In 1953 Gardner met Doreen Valiente who was to become his High Priestess in succession to Dafo.

The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray.

Valiente claimed that the coven also referred to the god as Janicot ( pronounced Jan-e-co ), which she theorised was of Basque origin, and Gardner also used this name in his novel High Magic's Aid.

Valiente offers another explanation for the negative reaction of some neopagans ; that the identification of Lucifer as the god of the witches in Aradia was " too strong meat " for Wiccans who were used to the gentler, romantic paganism of Gerald Gardner and were especially quick to reject any relationship between witchcraft and Satanism.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, recalls Gardner's surprise at Valiente's recognition of material from Aradia in the original version of the " Charge " that she was given.

In its best known form as the " eight words " couplet, the Rede was first publicly recorded in a 1964 speech by Doreen Valiente.

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

Mathiessen also takes the view that the last line was probably a Thompson addition derived from Valiente.

Doreen Valiente claimed that this was because at the time, Gardner had not yet conceived of the idea, and only invented it after writing his novel.

Valiente rewrote much of it, cutting out a lot of sections that had come from Crowley ( whose negative reputation she feared ), though retaining parts that originated with Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which she felt was genuine witchcraft practice.

Valiente also noticed that a chant in one ritual in the book was based upon the poem " A Tree Song " from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling, which she had enjoyed as a child.

Gardner's statements were interpreted by his pupil Doreen Valiente as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as Philip Heselton and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grimes.

Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente ( 4 January 1922 – 1 September 1999 ), who also went under the craft name Ameth, was an influential English Wiccan who was involved in a number of different early traditions, including Gardnerianism, Cochrane's Craft and the Coven of Atho.

In the early 1960s, Valiente begun a course on the Coven of Atho, which was run by Raymond Howard, and partially based upon the teachings of Charles Cardell.

Valiente copied everything she was taught into notebooks, which have provided some of the most important information on the practices of the group.

Faced with challenges from sceptics, Valiente attempted, with some success, to provide evidence for Gardner's claims concerning his initiation, notably by identifying the woman Gardner called ' Old Dorothy ' as Dorothy Clutterbuck in 1980, the woman who was supposed to have performed Gardner's initiation, in an essay published in The Witches ' Way by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

According to Dr Ruickbie, Valiente was the ' Mother of Modern Witchcraft ', playing a crucial role in re-writing much of Gardner's original ritual material, an assessment supported by Ronald Hutton.

Valiente also edited and wrote the introduction to the 1990 book, Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed by Evan John Jones, which was about forms of Witchcraft other than the Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions, such as Cochrane's Craft.

She was initiated into Wicca by Gerald Gardner in 1960 and is considered one of the " early mothers " of this religion, like Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, and Eleanor Bone.

The third paragraph is largely written by Doreen Valiente, with some phrases adapted from The Book of the Law and The Gnostic Mass by Aleister Crowley.

Gardner responded with the sudden production of the Wiccan Laws which led to some of his members, including Valiente, leaving the coven.

The split with Valiente led to the Bricket Wood coven being led by Jack Bracelin and a new High Priestess, Dayonis.

" In the various traditions that make up British Traditional Wicca, copies of the original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess Doreen Valiente, along with alterations and additions that have been made since then, is followed by adherents.

Although his own book had been put together with the help of Doreen Valiente and included material from a variety of modern sources, ( notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of Aleister Crowley ) it also included sections written in an antique ( or mock-antique ) style, including advice for witches brought to trial and tortured.

In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian book should be published in its true form.

In addition, there are puppets ( The Adventures of Peneque el Valiente ( Peneque the brave ) with Miguel Pino ), capeas and the Festival of Music, Dance and Theater in the Castle.

She took the Book of Shadows, and, with Gardner's permission, rewrote much of it, cutting out a lot of sections that had come from Crowley ( whose negative reputation Valiente feared ).

However Gardner's increasing desire for publicity, much of it ending up negative, caused conflict with Valiente and other members of his coven.

These laws limited the control of the High Priestess, which angered Valiente, who, with several other members, left the coven.

In 1962, Valiente saw her first book published: entitled Where Witchcraft Lives, it dealt with her own research into folklore and the Early Modern witch trials that occurred in her county of Sussex, things which she incorrectly associated with the origins of Wicca.

In March 2011 John Belham-Payne along with his wife, Julie and friends Brian and Patricia Botham and Ashley Mortimer formed The Doreen Valiente Foundation which they established as a charitable trust dedicated to protecting the artefacts, books and writings ( published and unpublished ) that Doreen had bequeathed to John.

Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ) who, with Doreen Valiente ( 1922 – 1999 ) founded Gardnerian Wicca in Britain, claimed to be initiated in the 1940s into a surviving coven of traditional witches, who worshipped both a male Horned God and a female Goddess.

At Wrestle Kingdom VI In Tokyo Dome, Michinoku and Taichi teamed up with Atlantis and Valiente to lose to Jushin Liger, KUSHIDA, Máscara Dorada and Tiger Mask IV.

In recent years, UAM students have organised massively to protest against terrorism, after the assassination of Prof. Francisco Tomas y Valiente by ETA in 1995, against the Organic Law of Universities in 2001, to clean Spain's northern coast after the Prestige oil spill in 2002, against the War in Iraq in 2003, to assist to the II European Social Forum also in 2003, and in solidarity with the victims of the 11th March 2004 Madrid train bombings.

There is also a poetic paraphrased version written by High Priestess Doreen Valiente in the mid 1950s, which is contained within the traditional Gardnerian Book of Shadows.

Doreen Valiente, a student of Gardner, took his version from his Book of Shadows and adapted it into verse, and later into another prose version.

This version of the ritual, written by both Gardner and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca.