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The Yule Cat, known as Jólakötturinn, [c] a huge and vicious cat who is described as lurking about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eating people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. He is the house pet of Grýla and her sons.
For centuries, Yule was the go-to winter festival for the Vikings, Germanic tribes, and peoples in pre-Christian Europe. Nowadays, is largely celebrated by Wiccans and other neo-pagan ...
Alex Sanders (6 June 1926 – 30 April 1988), born Orrell Alexander Carter, [1] who went under the craft name Verbius, [2] was an English occultist and High Priest in the modern Pagan religion of Wicca, responsible for founding, and later developing with Maxine Sanders, the tradition of Alexandrian Wicca, also called Alexandrian Witchcraft, during the 1960s.
The great rite is a Wiccan ritual involving symbolic sexual intercourse with the purpose of drawing energy from the powerful connection between a male and female. Both receive more power. [ 1 ] It is an uncommon ritual in a full coven, as it is used when the coven is in need of powerful spiritual intervention. [ 2 ]
The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. [1] The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: "Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola ...
Cunningham is the author of several books on Wicca and various other alternative religious subjects. His work Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner , is one of the most successful books on Wicca ever published; [ 1 ] he was a friend of notable occultists and Wiccans such as Raymond Buckland , and was a member of the Serpent Stone Family ...
They published a book titled The Witch's Bible, which generated outrage within the Wiccan community. [10] Many critics referred to it as a "witchcrap book". [10] Many of the central teachings featured in the book, such as its emphasis upon the existence of an asexual monotheistic deity, were completely contradictory to mainstream Wiccan belief ...
The tradition was founded in 1973 by Raymond Buckland, an English-born high priest of Gardnerian Wicca who had recently moved to the United States. His 1974 book The Tree was written as a definitive guide to Seax-Wica, and subsequently republished in 2005 as Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft.