SRS 1110 : ENCYCLOPEDIA READINGS.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Gerald brousseau gardner: one of the best known and most fascinating figures in modern witchcraft, became the founder of contemporary wicca as a religion, believed that he was a descendant of one grissell gairdner. Insisted on using what he claimed were ancient craft laws giving precedence to the. God over the goddess: the final revolt happened when he declared the high priestess too old, valiente and other members left gardner, raymond buckland was responsible for introducing gardnerian to the us. European pre-christian pagan fertility cults that extends back to the paleolithic era. In her second book she had a theory the horned god of witchcraft also dated to. Paleolithic times: the divine king in england advanced the theory that many english sovereigns from. William the conqueror to james i gas dies by ritual murder in keeping with the ancient sacrificial themes of the slain god and divine kings of the old pagan religions: people dismissed her writings.