What exactly is Wiccan? Who or what do they worship?

Question

I am not interested in converting, but I would like to know if what I believe about it is correct. I never heard of Wiccan until I watched that show "Wife Swap" and their was a Wiccan family. They made it out like they worshipped the mom because they believed that she was a reincarnated priestess or something like that. They even kept one daughter home, to school her in the beliefs of Wiccan. The dad said that they had a dragon living on their roof? And said that they talked to faries. Is this an accurate portrayal of the Wiccan people. If not what is it all about and is it true when people say that it is devil or demon worship?

Answer 1

To start off with, no Wiccan do not worship the devil or demons. The devil doesn't even exist to them. And that episode of Wife Swap wasn't exactly a good representation of Wicca. They picked a rather...fluffy individual, and unfortunetely you do get some space cases in Wicca.

Incidentally I have met the woman featured in that episode in real life. According to her the show scripted a lot of what she said and they only showed the real flighty parts. They left a lot out.

Wicca is a nature-affirming religion. They worship Divinity in the form of a God and a Goddess and celebrate the cycles of the seasons. They see the sacred in everything and believe that as such we are all connected.

You can find more information here: http://wicca.timerift.net

Answer 2

It isn't demon or devil worship, Wiccans don't believe in the devil, that came from Christianity. Wiccans are more nature based, worshiping the Goddess and the God. Sometimes people group Wiccans and Pagans into the same group, but Wiccans follow a very strict set of rules, one of which is to "harm none" (which also means not harming themselves) whereas like myself for example, I consider myself Pagan with strong Wiccan tendencies. I will refrain from harming anyone unless I am extremely provoked (i.e. hurt one of my children).
Sorry about getting off subject, but Wiccans see Deity in everything that is in them and around them.
As far as keeping a dragon on the roof and talking to fairies, of that I have no idea. I hope this helped, sometimes it is hard to put into words the things that I feel when someone questions something that is close to me. If you are really interested in learning more about Wicca for the sake of just learning (not converting) then read Wicca by Scott Cunningham.
Blessings to your hearth!

Answer 3

Wicca like all other religions has it's wackos and I believe that they were very poorly represented on that show.

Wiccans are a considerate people who follow the Wiccan Rede which states "Harm None". They believe in heavenly parents which means they see the divine being as both Father God and Mother Goddess. They are a nature or earth based religion, with 8 major holidays a year. They do not believe in the devil and definitely do not worship him. I have been priviledged enough to attend some of their beautiful rites.

J. Gordon Melton (a prominent Methodist minister) in his book "The Cult Experience" tells people that Wicca is not a religion to have concern over if your loved ones are involved as it does not meet the criteria for a cult. There is no one particular leader in Wicca. There are many, many traditions and variations of it....much like christianity.

I'm sure that for the purposes of TV they got the wackiest one's they could find. TV is always more interested in the bizzare than the facts.

Answer 4

In the second half of the 20th century, a self-conscious revival of pre-Christian paganism occurred in the United States and Europe. The foundation of this revival was witchcraft, or wicca (said to be an early Anglo-Saxon word for witchcraft). Wicca is interpreted simply as the nature and fertility religion of pre-Christian Europe, which has been explored in books such as Charles Leland’s Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches (1899), Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921), and Robert Graves’s The White Goddess (1948). Although they are now considered unreliable by scholars, such books gave inspiration to some people seeking spiritual alternatives. The writings of Englishman Gerald Gardner, who in his book Witchcraft Today (1954) claimed that he was a witch initiated by a surviving coven, imparted much of the alleged lore and rituals of English witches. Although his claims have been questioned, covens of modern witches sprang up under Gardner’s inspiration and spread to the United States in the 1960s. This form of witchcraft—with its feeling for nature, its colorful rituals, and its challenge of conventional religion and society—harmonized well with the countercultural mood of the 1960s and grew rapidly during that decade.

Modern witchcraft continued to prosper during the subsequent decades. Many followers of the ecological and feminist movements found in Wicca a religion with congenial themes. Wiccans emphasized the sacred meaning of nature and its cycles and the coequal role of gods and goddesses and of priests and priestesses. Some Wiccan groups, called Dianic (after the goddess Diana), include only women and worship the goddess exclusively. Closely related “neopagan” religions have also appeared in revivals of ancient Egyptian, Celtic, Greek, and Nordic religions.

Wicca perceives itself as a religion based on the broad themes of ancient pre-Christian paganism, although it is not drawn directly from paganism—for example, Wicca shuns some features of the old paganism, such as animal sacrifice. Increasingly, Wicca draws from many pagan traditions, with the result that the distinctions between witchcraft, occultism, neopaganism, and various strands thereof have become blurred. Modern witchcraft is entirely different from Satanism or the diabolical witchcraft imagined by the persecutors of past centuries. Major Wiccan themes include love of nature, equality of male and female, appreciation of the ceremonial, a sense of wonder and belief in magic, and appreciation of the symbolism and psychological realities behind the gods and goddesses of antiquity.

Answer 5

Wiccans follow a relatively simple neopagan religion based on magic and pantheism. They worship an archtypical god and goddess, who symbolize the male and female, or active and passive forces of nature.

Wiccans are not satanists, and the TV program "Charmed" does not accurately portray the religion. See the following for elaboration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca

Answer 6

My best friend is a Wiccan... oh gosh, I sound like Oprah. They worship the moon god. They are very nice people, there are priestesses, but they are generally not worshipped. They do believe in dragons, fairies and pixies. She still believes I am a fairy... and I'm fat. It's basically paganism of the ancient times... before Christianity. Read up on Paganism. Good luck with that.

Answer 7

Worship of the God and Goddess, everything is balanced and found in nature. From that source wiccans find their strength and abilities.

Answer 8

Wiccan is a religion started a man named Greald Garner in the 50's. he brought back anciant pagan teachings from around the world, and threw in some new stuff. panganism was started long before christianity. and it teaches the belives in a god and a goddess. and worship of nature and the world around us. some not all pagans and wiccans also practice magic.

want to learn more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan

Answer 9

Either that family is stupid or Wife Swap is scripted. Wiccans don't believe any of that stuff.

Answer 10

Wiccans are usually idiot liberals and losers who hate Christianity out of some pathetic need to be different from others and hence, "special". Their stupidity makes them ripe for exploitation by con artists. One such con artist made up the religion of Wicca:

http://members.aol.com/darkmistress1/page68.html

The evidence that the whole thing is made up, is there for anyone who cares to spend 5 minutes investigating the matter. Yet, the same people who like to act superior for worshiping a "religion" which supposedly predates Christianity cannot seem to be bothered to do even this most basic research.

Which is a problem, since, when you dig a little deeper, you discover that fucktwip Gardner was hanging out with satanists and basically took every single ritual for his scheme......from SATANISM:

http://www.churchofsatan.org/vera.html

This also is painfully obvious to someone who does ten minutes of research into wicca. So, these people who are fond of playing victim at the hands of Christians (which never happened, btw) and for complaining that radicals are constantly accusing them of being satanic, don't even know that they actually ARE, in fact engaging in satanic worship. This is a documentable fact. Simply put, the rituals in satanism and the rituals in wicca are the same. The reason they are the same is simple....Gardner stole them from satanism.

So basically, wiccans are engaged in the heinous evil of satan worship and too stupid to know any better and too arrogant to investigate the matter for themselves, let along listen to others who are trying to warn them about what they are doing.

Worse, those at high levels in this cult (for that is exactly what wicca is) know full well the satanic nature of wicca but hide that from the vast majority of adherents for sinister reasons.

But don't bother presenting little things like facts and documentation to these chuckleheads. They'll call you "ignorant".

F ucking losers.