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Word: wicca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic church to please their parents, they wanted a handfasting, because for them it alone contained "the spiritual element," as the groom put it. A priest and priestess at the festival, Jim Alan and Selena Fox, members of a pagan commune near Madison, Wis., called the Church of Circle Wicca, did the honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preaching Pan, Isis and Om | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...takes pride in being a hereditary witch whose lineage, she says, goes all the way back to 1134. Redhaired, with deep-set blue-green eyes, Sybil at 48 still looks her part. Like many another witch, she prefers to call her craft by the Anglo-Saxon name of wicca, which is thought to have referred to a kind of early medieval medicine man. She admits that witchcraft is power and bemoans the fact that in America "power leads to corruption. People wish to use witchcraft to personal advantage. [In] pure witchcraft, the life force is all important. Satanism is death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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