iam interested in wicca can any one help me find some reseacher or any other info ?

Answer 1

www.witchvox.com
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usfl&c=white&id=1938
www.wicca.com
www.wicca.timerift.net
http://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=73844&catID=3207
http://www.mdpagans.com/wiccaisnot.html
http://www.cog.org/wicca/about.html

Answer 2

First of all, thinking you can go to a bookstore and learn to be a witch is laughable! That's like saying you can learn to be a doctor from reading a lot of books.

I don't think anyone mentioned there are spirtual consequences to practicing Witchcraft, and I don't think that gets stressed enough by followers of the. Yes, some people do have bad expirences in Wicca, and other forms of occultism as well. Even if one person tells you they never have had a bad expirence, that doesn't mean you won't. No one can guareentee what you will or won't do or what mistakes you may make when you practice Wicca. This is not a game.

The Good Witch's Bible for instance does come with a disclaimer that the authors are not responsible for what happens to the user, even including spirit possession. That's one reason I reccomend it so much.

This is why I bristle when I see fluffies giving out spells online like candy. They'll mention the law of return (probably learned it from watching Charmed), and then turn around and give out a "an ancient Celtic love spell" that's minutes old. Arrgh.

If you really want to learn Wicca, you have to go to a real coven that practices skyclad (nude) and really has the great rite (tantric sex), and doesn't simply stick a blade in a chalice. If they're scared to take off their clothes, their probably scared of real witchcraft too. If you are not 18 yet, so your parents would have to sign a waiver to let you join a coven (a real coven anyway).

In order to become a Wiccan, you will have to be intiated via the Great Rite by a High Priest. You cannot do this by reading a book or a website (this isn't meant to be mean, it's just reality).

A lot of people will email you and offer to "train" you. Often times these types only know what they read out of a book or a website, and haven't actually been initiated. There are just somethings you have to do in person. So, just keep those things in mind.

Answer 3

Type in Wicca or Witchcraft into your search engine and you will find thousands of web sites.. From advanced to beginners, there is also witchvox, (a very helpful site to the novice).. I know of a site who will take you through 1st degree for nothing.. I can't mention names as that would be advertising.. I personally would look at web sites and buy some books on Wicca .. You can't go wrong with names like :- Grimassi , Scott Cunningham , Raymond Buckland , Stewart & Janet Farrar, and Edain McCoy but to name just a few... Also look up the Wiccan Rede.. The last verse is the most important :- Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfil --an' it harm none do what ye will... Enjoy your journey Blessed Be.......

Answer 4

First, check out this relatively objective (non-Wiccan) article about what Wiccans do and believe:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

This one is also quite good:

http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaganism/paths/wicca.htm

Then, if you still have questions, there are a few options open to you.

You can go to the Wiccan forums at Beliefnet.com and ask more questions there:

http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/boards_main.AllCategories.asp?Category=102

You can go to the Witches of the World section at Witchvox and look for Wiccans/groups/shops/events in your area:

http://www.witchvox.com/xvn.html

You can also email me if you have any specific questions. I've been Wiccan for thirteen years and teaching for five.

As for printed material, I recommend "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham as a good book for people just starting out. In my opinion, you should stay far away from anything written by Silver Ravenwolf, for the reasons listed in this article:

http://wicca.timerift.net/ravenwolf.shtml

I wish you the best of luck on your path.

Answer 5

Here are the titles of two different "Wicca 101" type of books. They both can be purchased in Borders Books under the "New Age" section.

"Wicca/Witchcraft For Dummies"

"To Ride A Silver Broomstick" - By Silver Ravenwolf.

Have a lovely rest of the evening. Bright Blessings.

Answer 6

Wicca always appear with acts of love and abandon of common truth or knowledge. This being true about relicairs as well.
Wicca appears within pottery and candlesticks with incense and naturally cared oils within, this helps meditation, sudden heal and some distress in pheromones of those inflicted against our means of survival.
Helping magic and adding some moist to small plants comes to the aid of nature spirits, helping the mush grow is easy somehow, provided dust and magic are appreciated and loved, not just known or feared as some fake around, mind me not.
Bye. I spoke too much as well, do not mind the pearretbroomer, she is drunk. Yes darn.

Answer 7

Go to Barnes and Noble and get the Wiccan Guide to witchcraft...by J. Buchanan

Answer 8

been wiccan for little over 30yrs. there are many good books out there. also wiccan/pagan chat rooms. and can always check on line to find good and real sites.

Answer 9

In the 19th century a romaticizing of things Pagan began. Godfrey Leland forged a spurious book called Aradia:Gospel of the Witches that implied that witches were pagans who worshipped Diana (and Lucifer). He plagarized materials from two previous books he wrote (Etruscan Remains and Gypsy Sorcery). Although the word Wicca isn't mentioned, it was the great-great daddy of the whole thing.
Later on quack anthropolgist Margret Murray hatched her own theory about the witches of the European witch trials actually being survivors of a Pagan cult in her books. These inspired Gardner to create his own witch cult witch he called "wica" (at first spelled in lower case and with only one "c"). Gardner insisted Witch meant "Wise one" claiming the word derives from the Old English word "wicce". "Wicce" actually means "to bend", and this is where the word "wicker" comes from. The word "wicked" also comes from "wicce" (as in a wicked person being "bent").
The word "witch" has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth,including English, but for some reason Wiccans still insist on calling themselves "Witches" (with a capital "W") and their religion "Witchcraft". They feel that the reason people are afraid of them is centuries of "xtian propaganda" meant to defame them. But even if they went to Vietnam ( a predominantly Buddhist country) and said they were a Phuy Tay (Vietnamese for witch), people would still be afraid of them. Of course, a tiny few Wiccans have stopped calling themselves witches, but most probably enjoy the shock value wether they admit it or not.

In the 19th century a romaticizing of things Pagan began. Godfrey Leland forged a spurious book called Aradia:Gospel of the Witches that implied that witches were pagans who worshipped Diana (and Lucifer). He plagarized materials from two previous books he wrote (Etruscan Remains and Gypsy Sorcery). Although the word Wicca isn't mentioned, it was the great-great daddy of the whole thing.
Later on quack anthropolgist Margret Murray hatched her own theory about the witches of the European witch trials actually being survivors of a Pagan cult in her books. These inspired Gardner to create his own witch cult witch he called "wica" (at first spelled in lower case and with only one "c"). Gardner insisted Witch meant "Wise one" claiming the word derives from the Old English word "wicce". "Wicce" actually means "to bend", and this is where the word "wicker" comes from. The word "wicked" also comes from "wicce" (as in a wicked person being "bent").
The word "witch" has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth,including English, but for some reason Wiccans still insist on calling themselves "Witches" (with a capital "W") and their religion "Witchcraft". They feel that the reason people are afraid of them is centuries of "xtian propaganda" meant to defame them. But even if they went to Vietnam ( a predominantly Buddhist country) and said they were a Phuy Tay (Vietnamese for witch), people would still be afraid of them. Of course, a tiny few Wiccans have stopped calling themselves witches, but most probably enjoy the shock value wether they admit it or not.


If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Don't you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim? Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!!

If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Don't you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim? Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!!

My advice would be to rethink the whole thing and try reading C.S. Lewis instead.