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asdfghjkl123456789 ago

Gardiner was a freemason. His version of Wicca is an attempt to subvert Wicca and bring it into freemason thinking. They do this shit all the time, i.e. Judaism with Kaballah, etc.

VieBleu ago

Interesting. These webs are very tangled and complicated. When was Wicca established?

asdfghjkl123456789 ago

Secret groups meeting to worship the earth mother and father are documented well back into the middle ages. And nature religions go to the dawn of human history.

VieBleu ago

But they weren't called "Wicca". Turns out the earliest mention of Wicca is early 20th century at most. Basically a post WW2 developement - neopaganism.