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Contents
List of Practices ix
Introduction xi
How to Work with This Book xxi
Resources 261
About the Author 263
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Wicca Made Easy
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How to Work with This Book
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Wicca Made Easy
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Chapter 1
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Roots
The word itself is a great place to start. Wicca arrived
in Britain with the Anglo‑Saxons in the mid‑5th century,
but it was already a lot older. Its roots go back some
5,500 years, to the most widely spoken language in the
world, called Proto‑Indo‑European, and the word weid.
Weid means ‘to see’ or ‘to know,’ and it’s also the root of
the Old English wisean, ‘to make wise or knowing.’ There
are also roots to divination, or speaking with divinity.
Originally, wicca was male and wicce female. Now we
use Wiccan (capitalized) as a non‑gender specific term
and Wicca to refer to the spirituality.
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Rupture
Tragically, what we (Western colonizers) did to other
Indigenous peoples, we did first to ourselves. The arrival
of Christianity throughout Europe occurred gradually
and often violently, assimilating and obliterating the
existing Indigenous traditions.
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Rebirth
In the early 1930s, a remarkable group of English
iconoclasts went looking for the religion of their
ancestors. Why that moment? Perhaps it was a reaction
to 100 years of the Industrial Revolution, with its damage
to land and people, and the punishing effects of World
War I and the Great Depression.
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