DEFINITIONs:
1. Gardner, Gerald Brosseau (1884-1964) is perhaps the best-known figure in modern
Witchcraft. Gardner was the founder of
Gardnerian Wicca, one of the leading Traditions in the
Wicca movement that began in the early 1960s.
2. His book in 1954 entitled
Witchcraft Today was the first about
Witchcraft by a self-proclaimed Witch. He is considered the father of modern
Wicca.
English civil servant, author, occultist, and Witch, 1884-1964. Easily the most important figure in the creation of modern Wicca, Gerald Gardner spent most of his life as an English colonial bureaucrat. Born to a wealthy family in England, near Liverpool, he suffered from severe asthma as a child ...
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