Myth Of The Wiccans

The Wiccan religion began in the 1950's and was led by a man named Gerard Gardner, a British civil servant who wrote many books on Witch craft after the laws concerning it had been repealed in England. Margaret Murray, archeologist and Egyptologist was the first to try and connect the Wiccan religion to tribal religions. Her two most significant works in this area were “The Witch-Cult in Western Europe” published in 1921 and “The God of the Witches” from 1933. In these texts she argued that the Witchcraft of her day resembled that of a pre-Christian religion that she called the Dianic cult. Since her books had been published, almost all other scholarly investigations on the subject have disproved her theory. Margaret's findings continue to be one of few that promote the idea that Wiccanism has been around longer then the mid 1900's. Though their may be similarities between the modern religion, and past tribal religions the is no concrete connection between any of them. It is a fact that Gerard Gardner founded the religion of modern witch craft, and those who believe otherwise are trying to form connections that simply are not there.