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Robert Cochrane (26 January 1931 – 3 July 1966), who was born as Roy Bowers, was an English occultist who founded the tradition of Witchcraft known as The Clan of Tubal Cain. Born in a working-class family in West London, he became interested in occultism after attending a Society for Psychical Research lecture, taking a particular interest ...
Cochrane's Craft, also known as Cochranianism and The Clan of Tubal Cain, is a religious movement similar to Wicca that considers itself a form of Traditional Witchcraft.It was founded in 1951 by the English witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught in the tradition by some of his elderly family members, a claim that is disputed by historians such as Ronald Hutton and Leo ...
The stang is usually a pronged wooden staff, [17] topped either with a naturally occurring fork or with antlers affixed. [18] The stang was among the ritual items used by Robert Cochrane , [ 19 ] while the term itself was likely popularized by his influence. [ 20 ]
The 1734 Tradition is a form of traditional witchcraft founded by the American Joseph Bearwalker Wilson in 1973, after developing it since 1964. It is largely based upon the teachings he received from an English traditional witch named Robert Cochrane, the founder of Cochrane's Craft, and from Ruth Wynn-Owen, whom he called the matriarch of Y Plant Bran ("the child of Bran").
The Witchcraft Research Association was a British organisation formed in 1964 in an attempt to unite and study the various claims that had emerged of surviving remnants of the so-called Witch-Cult, such as those of Gerald Gardner, Robert Cochrane, Sybil Leek, Charles Cardell, and Raymond Howard.
Shortly after, Cochrane committed ritual suicide on Midsummer 1966; she authored the poem "Elegy for a Dead Witch" in his memory. [82] She remained in contact with his widow and other members of the Clan, [ 83 ] as well as with Gray, [ 84 ] and proceeded to work on occasion with The Regency, a group founded by former members of the Clan.
The term "Gardnerian" was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or 1960s, who himself left that tradition to found his own. [ 2 ] : 122 Gardner claimed to have learned the beliefs and practices that would later become known as Gardnerian Wicca from the New Forest coven , who allegedly initiated ...
Robert Leroy Cochran (1886–1963), former governor of Nebraska; Bob Cochran (skier) (born 1951), former U.S. alpine ski racer; member of Skiing Cochrans family of Vermont; Bobby Cochran (born 1950), American singer-songwriter; Robert Cochrane (favourite) (died 1482), associate of James III of Scotland; Robert Cochrane (witch) (1931–1966 ...