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Traditional WItchcraft/Traditional Wicca
Posted Sep 27, 2002
EEk....it is nigh impossible to have a discussion on-line about traditional Witchcraft, because the terms used are often misappropriated by other paths -nothing against the other paths but rather a plea for precise use of language
Traditional Witchcraft should apply to pre-Gardnerian pre-wiccan occult practices, and in particular those concerned with practical magic; active occult practice including divination and charms, healing and herbology; and family traditions of occultism.
Traditional Wicca refers or at least should refer, to covens or individuals practicing Gardiner's original wiccan rituals in his original structure: this has been widened to include Alexandrians, Gwyddion and others who while not Gardnerian are certainly not traditional WItchcraft either, and who are more conveniently fitted into the trad wiccan model.
If one speaks of a rede, a book of shadows, a charge of the goddess, a law of three, high priestesses and witchcraft as a religion one is discussing WICCA. None of these elements belongs in Traditional Witchcraft, and those who seek to introduce them are in fact practicing wicca, not witchcraft. And fair dues to them, if wicca is their prefered path! but if it is traditional witchcraft you are after, beware the dreaded buzzwords
Why am I wittering on here? well its my journal and i can witter if I want to even if one feels one is a lone voice howling in the wilderness....
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Poetry
Posted Aug 14, 2001
For all those interested in the new Pagn movement in literature, there is a site [URL removed by moderator] which specialises in publishing Poetry and fiction centered on PAGAN themes.......this includes nature spirituality, earth based religions, humanism, occultism, mythology,sagas......and more.
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holidays
Posted Jun 13, 2001
well, it's that time of year again and this year's troubled spot is none other than ireland itself. Yep! I'm going on holiday in my own country...something I haven't done in a while. I will be sampling the delights of an irish summer, cmplete with seaside ambiance, chip vans and ice cream vendors (99's!!99's!!) and amusement arcades. Nah, actually that's not fair: it'll be Trad music, sea fishing, long walks, secluded beaches, evenings in the pub (around a turf fire, if this summer keeps going according to form) and I can't wait. There is nothing like the airport, and the feel of foreign money and travellers cheques and all, but there's nothing quite like Ireland in the summer either: soft twilights and lush greeness.
Yep, roll on sat!!
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