Wicca (English: / ˈ w ɪ k ə /), also known as "The Craft", [1] is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion.

Wicca is a modern, Earth-centered religion with roots in the ancient practices of our shamanic ancestors. Its practitioners, who call themselves Wiccans, honor the life-giving and life-sustaining powers of Nature through ritual worship and a commitment to living in balance with the Earth.

2024年12月11日 · Wicca, a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship and see it as a religion based on pre-Christian traditions of northern and western Europe. It spread through England in the 1950s and subsequently attracted followers primarily in Europe and the United States.

2018年3月23日 · Wicca is a modern-day, nature-based pagan religion. Though rituals and practices vary among people who identify as Wiccan, most observations include the festival celebrations of solstices and...

2024年6月16日 · Welcome to Wicca—a modern, nature-based pagan faith. Wicca empowers us to connect deeply with the world around us. We engage in rituals and practices rooted in reverence for the Earth. While often confused with witchcraft, Wicca stands apart as …

Longest-lived church of Wicca in the world, with 38 consecutive Samhain observances. In 1985 convinced a federal appeals court that Wicca was a religion equal to any other. Convinced the IRS that Wiccan churches did not have to keep financial records, just like other churches.

2002年10月2日 · Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition popularised by Gerald Brosseau Gardner. It emphasises spells and rituals and honours a Triple Goddess and a Horned God.

Starting in the early nineteenth century, a new natural religion gradually evolved. It gathered momentum in the mid-twentieth century. Many authors and philosophers helped to develop the magical modern religion and to articulate parts of its belief structure. The …

Wicca is a neo-pagan (meaning "new pagan") religion that was created by a British man named Gerald Gardner in the mid-to-late 1940s. Gardner popularized the new religion through books of his that were printed in 1949, 1954, and 1959. Those three books are High Magic's Aid, Witchcraft Today, and The Meaning of Witchcraft.Gardner called Wicca the "witch cult" and "witchcraft", …

2019年4月4日 · Wicca is not an ancient religion, but Gardner did incorporate some old esoteric knowledge into his original tradition, including Eastern mysticism, Kabbalah, and British legend. Wicca acknowledges the polarity of the Divine, which means that both the male and female deities are often honored.