Path: kudonet.com!news.scruz.net!miwok!bdt.com!news1.best.com!newsxfer3.itd .umich.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!neonlights .uoregon.edu!jersey.uoregon.edu!kld From: Kerry Delf Newsgroups: alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca Subject: Re: Need Answers Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:12:13 -0800 Organization: University of Oregon Lines: 42 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: jersey.uoregon.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: RedWitch04 In-Reply-To: <19970318225400.RAA14684@ladder01.news.aol.com> Xref: kudonet.com alt.pagan:164091 alt.religion.wicca:38091 [posted to a.p and a.r.w with cc to Beth ("RedWitch04")] On 18 Mar 1997, Beth wrote: > I'm searching to the answer to what seemed to be a simple question. > When did Wicca come to be? I have heard that it is an "old religion" and > I have heard it is something that "wasn't started until the 1950's". > Anyone here know which is correct? I believe the person who thinks it wa s > started until the 50's is confusing Wicca with Gardnarian (sp?) Wicca. Wicca was invented in the late 1940's / early 1950's. ALL forms of Wicca are offshoots of Gardnerian Wicca, which Gardner based on some scraps of old legends, the writings of Aleister Crowley, some imagination, and his proclivity for the English vice. ;) Wicca may have some things in common with older religions, because tidbits of old religions were stuck in piecemeal among the other components of the new religion. It is NOT, however, by ANY means, an "old religion" or "one of the ancient ways" itself. Of course, this doesn't mean Wicca isn't a valid religion. It's just not an old one. > Beth -K.Delf -----------=Kerry Delf=-------------==----------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I fear sometimes that I have the ambition of a genius, the eye and ear of a genius, and the talent of a chimneysweep. I go down into the filthy world, I come up black, I scatter the ashes and cinders of my research onto white papers, but what have I got? Paper with black marks all over it." --Orson Scott Card's fictional Honore de Balzac ------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMAILING RESPONSES TO MY USENET POSTS CONSTITUTES PERMISSION TO POST THEM -------------------------------------------------------------------------