Adriana Porter
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Adriana Porter was an alleged witch
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Porter's notability rests on a poem, The Rede of the Wiccae, which was published by her granddaughter Lady Gwen Thompson
in Green Egg
magazine in 1975 and attributed to her. It has become a semi-sacred text within the culture of Wicca
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Thompson claimed that she had inherited her Wiccan beliefs and practices from Porter, who had summarised them in the poem. If this were true, it would confirm that the hidden practices of witchcraft articulated by Gerald Gardner
in his books existed in independent traditions, uninfluenced by his writings.
The true authorship of the poem is, however, disputed. Some evidence suggests that it dates from several decades after Porter's death.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
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Porter's notability rests on a poem, The Rede of the Wiccae, which was published by her granddaughter Lady Gwen Thompson
Lady Gwen Thompson
Lady Gwen Thompson was the "public Craft name", or pseudonym of Witchcraft author Phyllis Thompson .In the 1980s, she altered her craft forename to "Gwynne"; Thompson is her final married surname....
in Green Egg
Green Egg
Green Egg is a Neopagan magazine published by the Church of All Worlds from 1968 through 1976 and 1988 through 2000, and restarted in 2007. It was created and edited for most of its existence by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart....
magazine in 1975 and attributed to her. It has become a semi-sacred text within the culture of Wicca
Wicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
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Thompson claimed that she had inherited her Wiccan beliefs and practices from Porter, who had summarised them in the poem. If this were true, it would confirm that the hidden practices of witchcraft articulated by Gerald Gardner
Gerald Gardner
Gerald Brousseau Gardner , who sometimes used the craft name Scire, was an influential English Wiccan, as well as an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, writer, weaponry expert and occultist. He was instrumental in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to public attention in Britain and...
in his books existed in independent traditions, uninfluenced by his writings.
The true authorship of the poem is, however, disputed. Some evidence suggests that it dates from several decades after Porter's death.
Sources
Bott, Adrian, "The Wiccan Rede", White Dragon magazine, Lughnasadh 2003----