Church and School of Wicca

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The Church and School of Wicca was founded by Gavin Frost and Yvonne Frost in 1968. It is well known for its correspondence courses on the Frosts' interpretation of Wicca. Its founders' played a heavy role in gaining federal recognition of Witchcraft as a religion in 1972 and winning an appeals court case in 1985 stating that Wicca, as a religion equal to any other, could have churches that did not have to share their expenses with the IRS. Both these cases brought The Church and School of Wicca into national spotlight. It has also chartered several other churches and groups.

1 Controversy
2 Book Excerpts from the Good Witch's Bible
3 External links
4 Notes

[edit] Controversy

The Church and School of Wicca has granted numourous charters to others, including John Todd, an evangelist who used a charter as a front to have sex with underaged girls in the 1970s. On the school's reading list is the Good Witch's Bible, written by the Frosts, which supports pedophilia and incest and suggests Wiccan girls should be deflowered with help from a father figure. It includes information on sex magic and suggests that wife swapping is the norm in Wicca traditions.

The Church and School of Wicca has also been criticised for accepting as members and providing correspondence-course training to Bill Schnoebelen, John Todd, Tom Sanguinet, Clifford Alford and Eric Pryor, all of whom went on to denounce Wicca as a satanic conspiracy, making extravagant claims about their degree of expertise and involvement in the religion.^[1]

In traditional forms of Wicca (Gardnerian, Alexandrian, etc.) sex is sometimes involved in third degree initiations into the High Priesthood, however this is generally between established couples, and sex is never required for first or second degree initiations or to join a group; neither is training for initiates given by correspondence course.

[edit] Book Excerpts from the Good Witch's Bible

Page 66 "The physical attributes of male and female virginity are destroyed at the youngest possible age, either by the mother or by a doctor. In the female case, the hymen is painlessly broken surgically. In the male case, the mother makes absolutely sure that the foreskin can be drawn fully back by cutting the underside attachment membrane"

Page 66:"At the last sabbat or eshbat before the initiation, the female novice is given the sacred phallus and the instruction sheet in Table 5 so that she can learn to insert and remove the phallus quickly and comfortably. She is also taught how she should lie and what she should do during the initiation ceremony...Throughout the fast the female novice wears her phallus, and at some time during the fast the novices are given a demonstration of introitus by a couple selected by the coven. The novice makes her own decision on contraception or lack of it. If she needs advice or help, the sponsor is the one to give it. (The IUD is the recommended Wicca preventive.)"

Table 5 are the instructions to be given for the deflowering pubescent Wiccan girls: "You have been entrusted with two phalli; these are in our care until your initiation. We would like you to be initiated at the next coven meeting, which will take place on ... This means that, excluding your menstruation time, you have three weeks to prepare your muscles for introitus. Your father or your sponsor will help you if you have any difficulties or pain."

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