Can someone explain what wiccan is?

Answer 1

Wicca was started by Gerald Gardner in New Forrest England circa 1950. He was a nudist & masochist and basically created Wicca as a sex cult. Followers nowadays like to forget that part, and instead fantasize they have magical powers.

Adian Kelly wrote a book on the history of Wicca called "Crafting The Art of Magic" in the 1980's. Wiccans had a fit when it was published, and pressured Llewyllyn to take it out of print. It was supposed to be the first in a series of books. I think Adian Kelly probably summed it up best when he said this about the Gardnerian "Book of Shadows", the closest thing Wicca has to a sacred book:

" [M]any of the Book of Shadows rituals did not exist in 1954 (when Witchcraft Today was published) but instead were still being written. [T]he major sources from which the rituals had been constructed included: (a) Mather's edition of the Greater Key of Solomon; (b) Aleister Crowley's Magic in Theory and Practice; (c) Leland's Aradia (d) some Masonic rituals akin to those described by Duncan and those of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (aside from those transmitted by Crowley; and (e) Margaret Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe. There were also bits and pieces from other works by Leland, Jane E. Harrison, Gilbert Murray, James Frazier, and other great classicists from the 19th century. That accounted for EVERYTHING in the rituals! There was nothing left that differed in any important way from what you can find in those sources- - but that is NOT at all what Gardner had claimed!"

It's a religion where anything can be added in, where the followers mistakenly think they have magic powers, and it's not older than rock and roll, even though it's called the "Old Religion". Authors like Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Silver Raven Wolf, Raymond Buckland, Scott Cunningham crank out books about how to get love, money, and above all else "protection". The Frost's Magic Power of White Witchcraft says "Witchcraft Can Make You Rich in a Ghetto" according to the title of chapter 11. However, the Frosts themselves aren't rich. Coincidentally, they claim to have taken a "vow of poverty" according to one of their webpages, to explain why they apparently can't make their spells work either.

When I visited England (the birthplace of Wicca) in May, I found it was practiced mostly by juvenile deliquents, much the same way Satanism is here in the U.S. No one seems to take it seriously over there. An very knowldgeable historian I talked to in Kent, when asked about Wicca, told me I should try a pub!

Eventually Ronald Huitton wrote his own history of Wicca, called "Triumph of the Moon". Hutton is a history professor at Oxford, so he is not easliy dismissed. Even though some Wiccans have realized their history is a sham, they still want to cling to the "witch" fantasy by calling it a "reconstructionist movement". But you can't reconstruct something which never existed in the first place. Even so, these types still seem to allude to their religion being thousands of years old.

Answer 2

Wiccan is a practioner of the religion of Wicca, an earth-based religion that reveres and hold nature sacred. Alot (but not all) Wiccans believe that God is both masculine and feminine, embodied in the God and Goddess, though the Dianaic form of it concentrtates on the Goddess to the exclusion of the God. In cases where both sexes are represented , the God/Goddess are seen as two halves of a whole Diety. They're complete and total equals. We have 12 sabbats(solar calandar holidays) and 13 esabats( lunar calander holidays). Whereas monotheistic religons have holy scriputures, we have the Wiccan Rede, which is most often noted as "An Seeing that ye harm none, do what thou Wilt", but is actually much, much longer.plz feel free to im me if u would like to know anything else, and i'd be more than happy to answer any questions you have. i don't know everything, but i can point u to some really good websites for the info i don't know.

Answer 3

A wiccan is a follower of wicca, a modern-day religion based on traditional witchcraft. It emphasises the female aspect of divinity as well as the male, and most wiccans revere nature. Wiccans cast spells, but are constrained from doing harm by their belief that wrongdoing will come back on them three times ("threefold return" in their terms). their main rule is "If it arm none, do as you will2.

and No, it's not satanism, as some will try to tell you here no doubt1 there is no Satan in Wicca, instead people are held responsible for their own thoughts and actions instead of blaming a spiritual being from a different religion altogether.

Answer 4

Your superb source on what your boyfriend believes is, get this, your boyfriend. it is not particularly puzzling to comprehend the basics of Wicca... Wicca is a faith that reveres a female and male duality, a God and Goddess (in many cases stated as only the "Lord and female" or "The Triple-Goddess and the Horned God" and each so often given a style of cultural names like Isis and Osiris or Hera and Zeus reckoning on what variety of Wicca is being practiced.) Wiccans rejoice the "Wheel of the three hundred and sixty 5 days"... a cycle of 8 holidays greater or less six weeks aside commemorating distinctive agricultural or astronomical sessions of the three hundred and sixty 5 days. Examples of those holidays may well be the wintry climate Solstice (or "yule" occuring countless days until now the Christians rejoice Christmas) and Samhain (reported "Sowen" and occuring on October thirty first). because of the fact the moon is an brand of their Triple-Goddess, lunar activities, particularly finished moons, are each so often celebrated as nicely. No, you do not might desire to do spells to be Wiccan, yet Wicca and the craft of witchcraft tend to be regularly linked and human beings in many cases get them puzzled, with some even thinking that "Witch" is synonymous with "Wiccan." in case you have chose to comprehend what your boyfriend ideals, Google isn't your superb source... ask your boyfriend. i'm helpful he'd like to talk to an open-minded man or woman approximately his faith and ideology. undergo in techniques, however, that what your boyfriend believes approximately Wicca won't be actual for all Wiccans... besides the shown fact that it is actual for him and that's all that truly counts to that end. -Scarlet

Answer 5

its someone who studies witshcraft. most wiccans aren't evil though, most claim that they dabble in the white magick (I don't know why there's a k at the end). although i'm sure a lot have probably dabbled with the evil side, possibly unintentionaly... an example for normal people would be playing with a ouiji board. most phsyics say that by doing that your possibly letting evil spirits into your domain is very high, they try to warn people not to dabble with what they do not know. so i would imagine that a lot of wiccans do do that. I don't know exactly what happens when you are practising this magick, but i would imagine that it is very similar to voodoo.

Answer 6

Wicca is a religion where they worship a god and goddess and live by a certain code of ethics. It is not devil worshipping nor is it a bunch of loonies sitting around trying to make a pencil float in the air. It has been around for centuries and has become glorified and misinterpreted by television and books.

Answer 7

Wiccans are those who make fine outdoor furniture called Wicca chairs. They're kinda like the Amish in this way. And they all avoid driving cars and the men have beards with no mustaches.

Answer 8

It is a system of belief like anything else that is very nature based meaning they have respect for living things and believe in many pantheons or different gods....and often have ritualistic practices.

Answer 9

A "magick" religion some old guy named Gerald Gardner made up. It is surprisingly popular amoung teenagers.

-Seeker

Answer 10

it's a pagan religion of witchraft