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Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism

Wiccan Roots

Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival

by Philip Heselton

Heselton investigates the people and places surrounding Gerald Gardner's claimed initiation in the New Forest in 1939, including the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship and figures such as Dorothy Clutterbuck. Through archival research he assesses the evidence for a pre-Gardnerian coven. Detailed and sometimes speculative, it is a key text in debates over the origins of Wicca for practitioners and historians alike.

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