I use to be Wiccan. You can make up chants and rituals yourself. It doesn't really matter, most of the ritual and theories in Wicca are made up at random by people whenever they need to fill in the blanks of their religion.
In 1897 Godfrey Leland wrote "Aradia Gospel of The Witches". The book was plagiarized from two of his other books, Etruscan Remains and Gypsie Sorcery. Leland claimed he was given an ancient manuscript, which is the same story he used about one of his other books. This is the same era when Joseph Smith Jr., was finding “gold plates”, so maybe it sounded possible. The manuscript was never produced for examination, like Smith’s plates. Even though the book doesn't mention "wicca", it was the inspiration of what was to come. "Aradia" deals with Diana and her brother Lucifer, a being "banished from paradise for his pride" and was obviously the Christian devil. Diana and Lucifer have a daughter named Aradia, who was supposedly a witch avatar who lived in Sicily in the 14th century. No witch cult like Leland's was ever found, and the document is obviously fake.
Next came Margaret Murray. A quack anthropologist, Murray hatched her own witch theory inspired by Leland's hoax. Murray invented the idea that witches of medieval witch-hunts were actual part of a Pagan cult that survived into 1600's or so. Murray wasn't above lying as her writings about Joan of Arc bear out. If she had actually read the trial transcripts from St. Joan's trial as she claimed, there are no way she could have drawn the conclusions she did about the devout Catholic Joan being a witch. Murray tests the limits of the reader's patience with ideas like an poor accused witch being tortured crying "Queen of Heaven help me!" as an incantation to a Pagan goddess, rather than the obvious St. Mary. But Murray's books inspired (and continues to inspire) others.
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. Many American Wiccans deny Gardner's sexual fetishes, but they're commonly accepted as fact in the U.K. Gardner was a member of Crowley’s O.T.O. and plagiarized his writings for his Book of Shadows.
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 Llewellyn 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!"
Wicca 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.
Eventually Ronald Hutton 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 (like Kelly for one, he calls himself a "Christian Pagan") 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.
2007-08-27 10:17:22
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answered by Anonymous
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make Ur own chants its better but if u have trouble making 1 and are a beginner visit various websites off of goggle and if u want chants that others made up and would like to be in a wiccan group contact me n i'll get u started
2007-08-29 19:37:31
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answered by Anonymous
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A Traditional Wiccan's lineage will also be traced. Eclectic Wiccans, witches, fans of voodoo and different matters quite wouldn't have any institution to fall again on. The truth is such a lot folks promoting spells, chants, and many others on the web are flat out frauds. The promise of operating magic for a stranger part a wold away will not be plausible. Generally talking, folks who declare their product will deliver you vigor are frauds. Power comes from the character, no longer trinkets. If you are speaking approximately lecturers, does it topic if they're a "truly Wiccan"? If what they instruct is sensible, they have got taught you a pleasurable non secular direction. If what they instruct does not make feel, then it isn't important if it is truly Wicca or no longer - it is not for you. Common feel and skepticism are paramount right here. If the one cause you are going to believe them is considering they *declare* to be a Wiccan, witch, and many others., you will have to stroll away. Never think any individual blindly. There are lineaged Wiccans who're nonetheless idiots. Just "being Wiccan" should not imply whatever on its possess.
2016-09-05 15:37:21
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answered by ? 4
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A chant for what purpose? That determines the form and content of the chant.
2007-08-26 19:56:10
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answered by prairiecrow 7
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ok. do u want a chant, or a mantra. and also, what do u want the chant for? different chants do different things. i think youre just someone wanting to cast a spell for fun
2007-08-28 09:33:08
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answered by Sean L. 1
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i am not sure what is a wicca chant... but.. if you want to cast a spell... best find from a profesional... or if you think you might know.... try making your own spell
heres a site where i got a few spells...
http://spellsandmagic.com/page2.html
2007-08-26 19:50:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Chants work the bast when you make them yourself...
2007-08-26 19:54:53
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answered by Mana 2
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We put one together here on YA just a few days ago. Apparently you missed it.
2007-08-26 19:50:05
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answered by Terry 7
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Its best to make up your own
2007-08-26 19:45:01
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answered by Diane 4
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