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- From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:25:13 -0500
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- lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > Does everyone else see the circle that I do?
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- Well, I see what you are pointing at, but I don't think it's a circle :).
- I disagree that anyone is asserting that "Fam Trads are not because
- of the fact that they are not Gardenerian, but only folk magic." Rather,
- people are observing that "fam trads are cast in magical terms, while
- Gardnerian witchcraft is cast in religious terms".
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- Now, there may well be fam trads which are explicitly religious in structure,
- but I've never heard even a rumor of this that wasn't traceable straight to
- Gardner and Valiente. The closest things I can think of to witchcraft as
- religion would be Voudoun or Santeria.
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- However, I'd love to hear about anything to the contrary. You say you know
- people who have family traditions outside the main modern lines. What kind
- of traditions? I don't even care who they are, I'm just curious about what
- convinces you. What is this non-Gardnerian witchcraft like?
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- Amanda Walker
- InterCon Systems Corporation
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