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- From: lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 00:47 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1993Jan1.094502.17764@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1993Jan1.193145.26607@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <C07KIM.LwE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C07KIM.LwE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe) writes...
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- >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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- I started not to reply to this thread and I did say that I wouldn't, but I
- noticed something earlier and my big mouth just won't let me stay shut up..:)
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- The way it seems to be comming out is that only Gardenarian Wicca is
- "Witchcraft" and only it is a witch religion. Fam Trads are not because of
- the fact that they are not Gardenerian, but only folk magic. Therefore
- you have no documented evidence of Wicca existing before Gardener.
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- Does everyone else see the circle that I do?
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- See why I don't want to argue it any more.....usless waste of time and energy.
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- Tammy
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