Modern Witchcraft is like the American first cousin to a proper, respectable British family which were steeped in tradition. That being said, here is how I see what I do in context to Wiccan Witchcraft that I’ve encountered and studied thus far: A Silly Analogy: So each witch you meet, and each book you pick up, can speak for that individual and author alone. Radically sovereign and willful, the lot of us. There is no agreed-upon definition for much of anything pertaining to the Craft, which is how we like it. There are no globally recognized authorities, nor governing bodies to ask. There is nothing centralized about witchcraft – no official bi-laws to reference. To even broach the subject in a public forum is to strike the match for your own witch-burning. This inevitably leads to the question, what is the difference between British Traditional Wiccan Witchcraft and what I call Modern Witchcraft? So I choose a different name for what I do. Their apples and my pears are not the same thing – close, but not enough. As it happens, I also know my praxis and religious paradigm are very different from both Cunningham’s and Gardner’s Wicca at this point.
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