2016-07-31T11:04:49Z http://realpagan.net/forum/topics/the-great-who-may-use-the-word-wicca-controversy?commentId=6330711%3AComment%3A250967&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=no tag:realpagan.net,2015-10-07:6330711:Comment:250967 2015-10-07T03:15:39.182Z Christopher Blackwell http://realpagan.net/profile/ChristopherBlackwell925

<p>Thanks for that link I am always happy to learn a bit more about our  Wiccan history. Gardner was already gone by the time I visited the Witches Mill in the Isle of Mann in the late Summer of 1968. At the time I had no idea I would  become Wiccan and had not yet heard the term, as Witch was all that I saw mentioned at the museum at the time. My main purpose of y visit to the Isle of Mann at age 21 was to see the Isle of Mann Railroad and Manx Electric Lines. I am still fascinated by narrow…</p>

<p>Thanks for that link I am always happy to learn a bit more about our  Wiccan history. Gardner was already gone by the time I visited the Witches Mill in the Isle of Mann in the late Summer of 1968. At the time I had no idea I would  become Wiccan and had not yet heard the term, as Witch was all that I saw mentioned at the museum at the time. My main purpose of y visit to the Isle of Mann at age 21 was to see the Isle of Mann Railroad and Manx Electric Lines. I am still fascinated by narrow gauge trains. It has been a life long passion.</p> <p>As for what has been covered over the decades I only know about that  I have read here in the United States. If I post something, and it is refuted, that does not bother me for I have learned something new in the process. Even though I will soon be 70 years of age, I still enjoy learning. I am afraid my mind at this stage of the game is almost the only thing still flexible. At this stage I am mostly house bound or short walks on my property of less than a hundred feet distance. So the Internet is my only source of the outside world or any information about of my interests.</p> <p></p> <p></p> tag:realpagan.net,2015-10-07:6330711:Comment:250963 2015-10-07T01:59:18.270Z Callisto http://realpagan.net/profile/Callisto

I'm not seeing how the above differs from anything BTWs are aware of and have maintained? Gardner did not call the Craft "wicca" and stated quite plainly how the witches of New Forest used the term. He continued in that manner, as do initiates (amongst each other) today. We're also quite aware when and how the transition to referring to the tradition came about, which coincided with the coining of the term "Gardnerian".<br></br> <br></br> Also it's not correct that Gardner "never" used the word Wicca…

I'm not seeing how the above differs from anything BTWs are aware of and have maintained? Gardner did not call the Craft "wicca" and stated quite plainly how the witches of New Forest used the term. He continued in that manner, as do initiates (amongst each other) today. We're also quite aware when and how the transition to referring to the tradition came about, which coincided with the coining of the term "Gardnerian".<br/> <br/> Also it's not correct that Gardner "never" used the word Wicca (2c's), by the 1960s the tradition and its spelling was being used publicly with 2 c's. E.g., Here is a photocopy of an interview with Gardner from 1961 in which he tells the reporter himself he prefers to be called a Wicca, "Not witch -- wicca." If he still used 1 c, he would have made that clear to the reporter as well.<br/> <br/> See: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thewica.co.uk/daymet.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thewica.co.uk/daymet.htm</a><br/> <br/> What about what you posted did you find to be somehow new and other than what has been covered innumerable times over the decades?