Definition of wicca Wicca
/wɪˈkʌ/ - [wiku] -
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What does wicca mean?
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| wicca - the polytheistic nature religion of modern witchcraft whose central deity is a mother goddess; claims origins in pre-Christian pagan religions of western Europe | ||
| wicca - a community of followers of the Wicca religion |
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Wicca is a religion. It is believed to be based upon the beliefs of ancient peoples who lived in the UK before they all joined the religion of Christianity, but a lot of it was created in the 1940s by a man named Gerald Gardner. The word "wicca" means "witch" in Old English.
The people who practice this religion are called Wiccans. They believe in a God and a Goddess, and they practice a kind of magic. Wiccans have eight big holidays each year, called sabbats. A group of Wiccans who worship and do magic together is a coven. Wiccans often call themselves witches, but not all witches are Wiccan.
Beliefs and practices.
There are a lot of different kinds of Wiccans. Different kinds of Wiccans do different things, but most of them believe in these rules.
God and Goddess.
Most Wiccans believe in a God and a Goddess. Each of these has many different names, which were the original names of ancient gods and goddesses like Athena, Brigid and Isis.
There are some Wiccans, called Dianics, who also believe there is both a Goddess and God but choose to work with only the Goddess.
Magic or magick.
Many Wiccans do magic. Some of them call it "magick," because the K at the end helps them tell which magic is real and which is imaginary (like in a story or "magic tricks" done as a funny show). The use of the spelling "magick" came from the author and occultist Aleister Crowley, whose ideas were influential to the formation of Wicca. They ask their God and Goddess to help change their lives, or
