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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.080119.6917@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:01:19 GMT
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- ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe) writes:
- :
- : George Papp makes some interesting comments about oral tradition and evidence.
- :
- : 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.
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- My feelings exactly. Thanks for putting it so plainly.
-
- Bill
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