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- From: ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe)
- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:01:33 GMT
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- George Papp makes some interesting comments about oral tradition and evidence.
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- I, personally, am perfectly willing to accept oral tradition from someone who
- doesn't seem to be working straight out of Gardner's BoS. However, both
- Fam-Trads I know are incredibly unlike modern Wicca. (They are also incredibly
- unlike each other, as the two people who I know, and who know each other, will
- agree.) One is a tradition of some simple folk magic and some talents for
- Healing. The other is more a tradition of mysticism than magic, though every
- generation has had its share of magical practitioners. *Neither* of them are
- religions, and both are unwritten. I acknowledge that this sort of Fam-Trad
- exists, but I've seen no evidence of Wicca, or an ancestor religion of Wicca,
- existing before Gardner. If anyone has some, I'd love to hear more about it.
-
- Enjoy the journey!
- --Br'anArthur
- Queer, Peculiar, and Wyrd! :-)
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- "We are secretly replacing the fine quartz crystals this medicine pouch maker
- usually uses with Folgers crystals. Let's see what happens...."
- --DACCrowell
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