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The Dianic Wiccan belief and ritual structure is an eclectic combination of elements from British Traditional Wicca, Italian folk-magic as recorded by Charles Leland in Aradia, New Age beliefs, and folk magic and healing practices from a variety of different cultures.
Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay (born 1940) is a Hungarian-American writer, activist, playwright and songwriter living in America who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. She is the founder of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, which was founded in 1971 as the first women-only witches' coven.
Edith Rose Woodford-Grimes (1887–1975) was an English Wiccan who achieved recognition as one of the faith's earliest known adherents. She had been a member of the New Forest coven which met during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and through this became a friend and working partner of Gerald Gardner, who would go on to found the Gardnerian tradition with her help.
Phyllis Curott (born February 8, 1954) who goes under the craft name Aradia, is a Wiccan priestess, attorney, and author. [1] She is founder and high priestess of the Temple of Ara, one of the oldest Wiccan congregations in the United States.
While many people use "witch" and "Wiccan" interchangeably, they aren't necessarily the same thing. "Wicca is a branch of witchcraft," says Blake. "All witches are not Wiccans, although all ...
Eddie Buczynski was born on January 28, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York to working class parents. [1] His father Edmund, who Eddie was named after, was the eldest son of Polish parents, and had been raised in a Brooklyn tenement with four brothers and two sisters.
The Witches of New York: A Novel Set in the Gilded Age , a trio of witches (Adelaide, Eleanor, and Beatrice) run a tea shop where they tell fortunes and give secret cures to the women who find ...
The 2014 Pew Research Center's Religious Landscapes Survey included a subset of the New Age Spiritual Movement called "Pagan or Wiccan," reflecting that 3/4 of individuals identifying as New Age also identified as Pagan or Wiccan and placing Wiccans and Pagans at 0.3% of the total U.S. population or approximately 956,000 people of just over ...