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Wicca is a Neopagan religion and a religious movement found in various countries throughout the world. It was first popularised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion, or the New Religion of the Old Gods.

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Gerina Dunwich

Gerina Dunwich (b. December 27, 1959, Illinois) is a professional astrologer, occult historian, and New Age author, best known for her books on Wicca and various occult subjects. She is also involved in paranormal research and is the founder of the Paranormal Animal Research Group, which investigates cases of alleged hauntings by animal spirits.

Her first newspaper article was published in October 1976. It was an interview with singer/songwriter Jim Peterik from the local Chicago band, the Ides of March (and later, Survivor). By the spring of 1980 Dunwich was publishing a small press literary journal called Golden Isis, a one-woman operation that specialized in Goddess-inspired poetry and off-beat fiction.

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... that because Wicca is a season based religion, people in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate holidays in opposing times of the year, compared with the Northern Hemisphere?
... that Wiccans often identify as witches, but Wicca and Witchcraft are not necesarily the same thing?
... that Gerald Gardner is credited with re-introducing the word 'Wicca' into the English Language?
... that Wicca was previously an Old English word (pronounced: 'witcha'), meaning a male witch or wizard and 'wicce' was a female witch?
... that Wiccans observe eight seasonal Sabbats of the year and 12-13 Esbats each year?

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Bast as a domestic cat

See also: Cats in Egypt.

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“	Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. The inner components of Wicca are available to anyone who can read and has the proper wit to understand the material. Wicca's only secrets are its individual ritual forms, spells, names of deities and so on.	„
—Scott Cunningham

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Defining Neo/Paganism at WikiPedia

When should Wikipedia use the term "paganism" as opposed to "neopaganism"? And should these terms be capitalized? See discussion and get involved at the project NeoPaganism talk page.

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