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To: alt.religion.wicca.moderated From: MaaikeSubject: Re: What is and is not Wicca Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:16:25 CST On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:48:41 CST, "Thunderbolt" wrote: > 12th Century Anglo Saxon (? or some other old language...) wice >and wica meant male or female wise one. I don't remember which was >masculine and which was feminine off hand. Oh, it was already Middle English by the twelfth century. You'll have to go back another three hundred years or so to get to Anglo-Saxon... Anyways, being a linguistics geek, I just so happen to have a 1953 edition of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer. The glossary gives wita "councillor, advisor, sage", wis "wise", wicu "weak", and wic "dwelling, pl. camp". Which isn't terribly helpful (except for clearing up the word for 'wise'). However, the 1988 edition of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader has the addition of wicca m. or wicce f. "wizard or witch". > But Gardner _May_ have taken >that word to try and give authenticity and antiquity to the _New_ religion >he _may_ have created. Personally I believe he Created Wicca with his >Gardenarian Version of it and wrote supposedly ancient texts to support his >claim. But that is my Opinion and not fact. He may have not created it, >but before it became Modern Wicca, witchcraft as a religion may have gone by >different names and not Wicca. Agreed. -Maaike
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