Category: Articles
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Remembering Patricia Crowther
Patricia Crowther (née Dawson; 14 October 1927 – 24 September 2025), Craft name Thelema.
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John Belham-Payne
5 January 1952 to 15 February 2016 John Belham-Payne (born John Patrick Payne), the founder of the Doreen Valiente Foundation, is best known as the last high priest of Doreen Valiente. John was widely regarded as an inspirational Pagan leader, and his name is included in The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-paganism by Shelley…
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Marget Inglis
Marget Inglis was a Scottish High Priestess who was very well-loved by all who knew her. Memories of Marget Once when I was working in Aberdeen I rented a room above a pub. As it happened, Marget ran a moot in the pub downstairs once a month. She really was a remarkable woman – on…
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Madge Worthington
Madge was immensely important in the development of the Gardnerian Craft. She was initiated around 1964 by her high priest, Arthur, who was in turn initiated by Eleanor (Rae) Bone who died in 2003. Madge and Arthur used to hold their meetings in Arthur’s house in Whitecroft Way and to this day her many magical…
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Fraud, and why it matters
What is a fraud? In the context of witchcraft, it is someone who deliberately and knowingly seeks to deceive others about the origins and nature of their tradition, or claims that they were initiated by a genuine practitioner of a tradition, but they weren’t. In other words, they lie about their origins to make themselves…
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“Good” people do bad things: statement on the Frosts
There is absolutely no excuse, ever, for advocating the molestation of children. Therefore, there is no excuse for the publication of chapter 4 of the book by Gavin and Yvonne Frost which claimed to be about Wicca, which (until it was modified in 2007) advocated for the sexual molestation of minors. If they had repudiated…
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Model guidelines for group discussion
These are presented as a template or resource for your own use. They were developed by the Inclusive Wicca Discussion Group. Model guidelines for group discussion (Can be used face-to-face or online) Guidance for use in a face to face group Get participants to suggest their own guidelines and write them up on a flip-chart.…
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Training expectations
By Kim Dent-Brown and Tracey Dent-Brown TRAINING EXPECTATIONS (This is offered as a model for discussion, not a fixed and final text. It is more or less what my coven gives to people asking for preparatory training by a Gardnerian Wiccan coven towards possible first degree initiation. As a seeker, you can expect something broadly…
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Mystery Religions
Mystery Religions: the what and why by Sarah Howe Being a regular poster on a forum I am quite often exposed to interesting and sometimes touchy discussions centring around people’s personal beliefs and around specific traditions. One of these recent discussions was on the subject of Mystery Religions, their purpose and what the definition of…
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Wiccan ethics
by Sarah Howe With the interplay between the Wiccan Rede and Threefold Law, Wiccan morality and ethics is a far more complex subject than a casual glance would have you believe. Once the additional ideal of Perfect Love & Perfect Trust comes into play, it is obvious that the complexity of the issue of Wiccan…