Wicca

By cmcomparoto
  • 1542

    Witchcraft is now punishable by death

  • The last witches are killed in Western Europe

  • Gardner wrote out his Wiccan rituals

  • Wica rituals began

  • Gardner became involved with a coven in England.

    He was initiated in the group in 1939

  • Gardner became involved in the British occult community

    Gardner became involved in the British occult community and founded a new movement based on a reverence of nature, the practice of magic, and the worship of a female deity

  • Gerald Gardner casts a spell on Hitler. Wicca starts to be practised

  • Viking culture informs understanding of the 'Aryan race'. Hitler is a rumoured Occultist

  • Gardner bought land in the village of Brickett Wood

    Gardner bought land in the village of Brickett Wood to establish a center for folkloric study, that would serve as headquarters for a coven of his own.

  • First Wiccan coven in the United States

  • UK Parliament repeals the Witchcraft Act

  • Founded his first coven of followers

    founded his first coven of followers, and, with input from its members, especially author Doreen Valiente, developed modern witchcraft into what today is known as Wicca.

  • Controversy within Community

    a faction of Wiccans broke with Gardner’s notion that clothes inhibited magical workings and chose not to follow his practice of worshipping in the nude

  • Alex Sanders founded a strain known as Alexandrian Wicca

  • the word Wicca was derived from Scots-English and meant “wise people.”

  • Wica became, Wicca

  • Gardner died of a heart attack

  • Dianic Wicca Began

    feminist focused wicca

  • 50,000 Wiccans in western Europe and North America.

  • Wicca was recognized as an official religion in the United States through the court case Dettmer v. Landon.

  • The board reversed its view on Wiccan jewelry

    a Wiccan student in Texas enlisted the aid of the ACLU after the school board tried to prevent her from wearing Wiccan jewelry and black clothes. The board reversed its view.

  • around 100,000 and more than 1.5 million Wiccans in the US

  • divorcing Wiccans were not allowed to teach their faith to their sons law reversed

  • Wiccan symbols are now accepted by the Veterans Administration

    U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart became the first Wiccan serving in the U.S. military to die in combat. His family was refused a Wiccan pentacle on his gravestone. This was revisited In court.

  • around 65,000 Wicca practising in the UK

  • around 300,000 to three million practitioners