how can you tell if you have wiccan ancestors?

Question

Is there some kind of truely free website that you can tell if your a decendent from wiccan heritage?

ok I maybe not wiccan because its a new religion. But I heard of a Irish circle, ancient..

Answer 1

Wiccan is a New religion. As in, officially less than a century old. So you could probably ASK those ancestors. It is, however based on the old Pagan beliefs. And you can pretty much bank on the fact that your OLD OLD (and very very dead) ancestors worshipped deities before christianity barged into the picture.

Answer 2

Impossible - Wicca's only been around since the 1950s.

If you're asking for something you can do to find out if you have Pagan ancestry, I think the only thing you can do is ask your family. I know there are ways to track who's in your family tree and where they're from, but religion isn't usually something kept on record. See if you can trace your ancestry to Ireland, Scotland and/or Wales. While you won't be able to trace your family tree back all the way to the time of the Celts, if you can trace your ancestors back to that area, it's likely that your family was there long enough to have been involved in Celtic spirituality.

Answer 3

Wicca is a Neopagan religion that can be found in many English-speaking countries. Originally founded by the British civil servant Gerald Gardner, probably in the 1940s, although it was first openly revealed in 1954. Since its founding, various related Wiccan traditions have evolved, the original being Gardnerian Wicca, which is the name of the tradition that follows the specific beliefs and practices established by Gerald Gardner.

Answer 4

You must be prepared to spend a lot of time researching your genealogy, and no, there isn't a totally free website where you can tell much of anything, let alone if you had Wiccan ancestors. There are some out there that allow you to do some searches, but to adequately do your genealogy, you need to shell out the money, spend hundreds of hours cross-checking facts, or pay someone to do it for you. I know, because I've done mine. It took a year (maybe longer - I forgot) and I'm still not even done. I just put it on hold, because I needed a break from it. :o)

Answer 5

Wicca is only about 50 or years old. The people accused of witchcraft in the witch trials were just victims of paranoid hysteria.

The people who raised stone circles were praticioners of the various animistic tribal religions of ancient Europe, which were NOT Wicca.

Answer 6

If you can trace yourself back to Irish\European chances are you have some type pagan ancestry if you could go back far enough but you would be getting back before they had records. Traditional or Hereditary witchcraft is usually very secretive in families and you would only be able to find out if it had been passed down orally from generation to generation.

Since I am English\Irish\Norwegian I like to assume I am a mixture of Druid, Celt and Viking but of course there is no proof LOL.

Answer 7

You can't. Remember how secretive witches are. And for good reason. Not to mention, Wicca is a very new religion.

Answer 8

Wiccan wasn't around when your ancestors lived. It's new.

Answer 9

y dont u just ask ur family
thats probly a lot cheaper

Answer 10

simply to have desire to be wiccan