Who initiated the first Wiccan?

Question

Who was the first offical Wiccan and who initiated him/her?

BigPoppa, I know about Witchcraft, and I was asking about Wicca, not Witchcraft!

Answer 1

Nobody. The first true "Wiccan" is the one who first realized that we are all apart of nature and that divinity is present in everything.

Answer 2

I am relitively new on the path of Wicca. 3 years is all, but I beleive we can initiate ourselves and this can be as complicated with lots of ritual or as simple as just sitting down and thinking about dedicating you life to the path.


I know my belief on this goes against the coven teaching that only a witch can make a witch, but the arguement to this , is the question you ask .

Raymond Buckland addresses this in great detail in his book Wicca For One. In it he talks about the solitary witch has a much older history than coven witches and he talks about some real historic solitary witches and even some fiction ones.

Personaly I would love to be a part of an organized coven, but here in my area they are so underground it is hard to establish contact.

Wicca is relitively new in itself being the brain child of Gerald Gardner, but is as valid as a religion as any of the Christian denominations.

There is certain things Wiccan that if we stray too far off from these we are no longer Wiccan, but have created our own pagan religion. That is okay, but far too many people especially young teenagers or early 20's call themselves Wiccan but do not adhere to the Wiccan reded. If a person does not honor the Rede, then they are not Wiccan because the rede is a very large part of Wiccan beleif. This does not discredit their spiritual beleif system, but only establishes they are not Wiccan.

Answer 3

people have the potential to call themselves regardless of they like yet that doesn't make it precise. i've got listened to the debates you're conversing approximately. i'm an open minded individual who tries to base my evaluations on good judgment particularly than emotion. i think of the BTW's are extra logical of their perspectives and regularly are extra beneficial than prepared to furnish references for why they sense the way that they do. i've got appeared up those references and have greater my very very own evaluations. you will in all probability do an analogous---and that's reliable (in spite of how you wind up viewing it). Objectively collect the records from all factors and make your individual determination. i do no longer think that Wicca is an something-is going faith. "basically have faith/do regardless of you prefer and contact it Wicca" seems impolite and intentionally ignorant to me. a individual could be a BTW and not practice in a coven. I easily have a chum who attained 0.33 degree in her coven and then moved out of state. She does not presently have a coven yet she remains acknowledged by utilising her custom. i do no longer think of that any one is asserting that to have a fulfilling faith one should be initiated into Wicca. only that to apply the identify of being a member of an initiated team, then you are able to truly desire to easily be an initiated member of that team. could you call your self a Mason in case you weren't initiated into Freemasonry?

Answer 4

Witchcraft existed even in primitive people. Some of the earliest artifacts are figures of a large woman's body with pendulous breasts (my ancient art teachers words). They showed signs of wear, like an Idol, in fact, they appear to have been Idol.

This from New Advent

The belief in witchcraft and its practice seem to have existed among all primitive peoples. Both in ancient Egypt and in Babylonia it played a conspicuous part, as existing records plainly show. It will be sufficient to quote a short section from the recently recovered Code of Hammurabi (about 2000 B.C.). It is there prescribed,


If a man has laid a charge of witchcraft and has not justified it, he upon whom the witchcraft is laid shall go to the holy river; he shall plunge into the holy river and if the holy river overcome him, he who accused him shall take to himself his house.

Answer 5

The whole idea you have to be initiated to do something is BS. It is not a club you join with secret handshakes.