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A brief background

Wica, with a single c was developed by pioneers in the 1950’s, based on at least two witchcraft traditions and other magical societies. At a time when witchcraft was just becoming able to be legally practiced in the UK. It was a major development and took what had been largely a distributed and quite varied country practice to create a form available to more people. The publication of details allowed far more to understand and for this path within the craft to grow. Witchcraft had existed before wica, but being illegal it had devolved into a large number of paths, and few records exist showing the history of each. Much older books and magical texts you will discover are available to you.

Since then, a number of variations have occurred, further modifying, or refining it and over time the name wica has changed to the old English word Wicca, which is the word that the word witchcraft developed from.

Neither Wicca or witchcraft is associated with the Christian Satan, and this does not exist within our traditions. Therefore a Satanist of a negative Christian, not anything to do with Wicca or witchcraft.

Now there are very many types of Wicca, all valid, and improved or advanced versions developed further from that, which was produced by the wica pioneers. In the USA Wicca is a recognised religion, and some now think of Wicca as being the over classification covering all forms of witchcraft, rather than a sub set, but many traditional witchcraft paths say they are not a part of Wicca, but Wicca is a part of witchcraft. Although to some this may seem a little like a chicken and egg question, we accept wicca as being a group of paths within witchcraft, although witchcraft itself is so wide, it is nearly impossible to define what it is. The word witch means different things to different people, while Wiccan is a more understood term.

Power Wicca

Power Wicca, is one of these enhanced versions, and the enhancements have come about through two means, one being the application of a mixture of intellect and magic, to allow it to develop and secondly now that more traditional witchcraft groups are available to us, adding more knowledge from them.

Power Wicca is all about living life to get the most out of it. A lot of new age philosophies, time management and other techniques are used to get you organized, relaxed, happy and fulfilled.

The most striking way that Power Wicca differs from many others is in the four houses approach, the four houses being different approaches, personalities and specialists. Each of these houses being the equivalent of a wicca order in their own right, but being able to work together to produce Power Wicca. The effect being similar to the four elemental forms of traditional witchcraft, where more power can be obtained by combining more than one elemental group. In olden times we find often stone circles in groups of three, and this was most likely for similar reasons. If we look to the east we find four elements and to the west 4 although differing slightly

From here the pages on the left cover a more detailed history of the development of witchcraft and Wicca (not essential reading, a far greater explanation of the four houses, details on covens and how the organization works and a general page on Wicca that is common to just about every path within Wicca.

Within the library section you will find an increasing amount of further documentation.

Virtual Wicca  - www.witchcraft-wicca.com

Virtual Wicca are a part of Power Wicca, but is a virtual coven that Wiccan from around the world can belong to, and share their knowledge and skills. Its fundamental beliefs are that of Power Wicca, but as it is in many ways a collection of solitaries, each witch will have their own individual beliefs.

Virtual Wicca encourages its members to form their own rings or covens, either as a part of Power Wicca or as a path of their own. It provides one of the most convenient and friendly routes for those with a calling to Wicca to get the help they require to get involved. Look at the site you are in now and then perhaps take a look at the Virtual Wicca site, they do not repeat what we have said on this site.

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