Post by sethtoledo on Jul 19, 2010 20:28:41 GMT
Hello all, was wondering if anyone here has read
WICCA Magickal Beginnings: A Study of the Possible Origins of This Tradition of Modern Pagan Witchcraft and Magick by David Rankine and Sorita d'Este.
I am huge fans of this couple's work, most of their books are on topics I am interested in. I read this one when it first came out. I was reminded of it again because Sorita has recently been plugging it again on facebook (probably because everyone must be getting sick of hearing about their latest Hekate book lol I enjoyed that too by the way)
Sorita posted a blog entry today which includes a generous chunk of one of the chapters concerning the use of the word Wicca and how it, contrary to what some people may have thought until now, was not completely out of usage until Gardner came across it. J R R Tolkien was referring to Gandalf and Saruman as being of the Wicca! lol
Anyway the article can be found here;
www.sorita.co.uk/?p=895
I think the book is very interesting and like the authors say themselves, whereas other books on the history and origins of Wicca mainly concern themselves with the people involved in the movement and who said what, this book focuses on the practices and tools of Wicca and examines where they came from. David and Sorita tend to be more of the persuasion that Wicca is a continuation of the Western Grimoire tradition rather than it originally being a religion, they regard it as being mostly a magickal tradition.
David Rankine was recently in two radio podcasts on a channel called Witch Talk radio. He did a two part discussion on the findings when researching the book and he felt that it was more Doreen Valiente that put a more pagan and religious slant on it. I am not too sure what to think about this, because I do feel that Gardner was concerned with the Craft being a religion as well as a magickal tradition, but do not know if this was because of Doreen's influence. I would love to know what people's views are.
The radio podcast can be found here;
www.blogtalkradio.com/witchtalk
If you scroll down the page you can find and listen to parts 1 and 2 of the "Wicca as a continuation of the Medieval Grimoire Tradition" discussion. I think there are a lot of topics of interest on this radio show actually.
BB
Seth
WICCA Magickal Beginnings: A Study of the Possible Origins of This Tradition of Modern Pagan Witchcraft and Magick by David Rankine and Sorita d'Este.
I am huge fans of this couple's work, most of their books are on topics I am interested in. I read this one when it first came out. I was reminded of it again because Sorita has recently been plugging it again on facebook (probably because everyone must be getting sick of hearing about their latest Hekate book lol I enjoyed that too by the way)
Sorita posted a blog entry today which includes a generous chunk of one of the chapters concerning the use of the word Wicca and how it, contrary to what some people may have thought until now, was not completely out of usage until Gardner came across it. J R R Tolkien was referring to Gandalf and Saruman as being of the Wicca! lol
Anyway the article can be found here;
www.sorita.co.uk/?p=895
I think the book is very interesting and like the authors say themselves, whereas other books on the history and origins of Wicca mainly concern themselves with the people involved in the movement and who said what, this book focuses on the practices and tools of Wicca and examines where they came from. David and Sorita tend to be more of the persuasion that Wicca is a continuation of the Western Grimoire tradition rather than it originally being a religion, they regard it as being mostly a magickal tradition.
David Rankine was recently in two radio podcasts on a channel called Witch Talk radio. He did a two part discussion on the findings when researching the book and he felt that it was more Doreen Valiente that put a more pagan and religious slant on it. I am not too sure what to think about this, because I do feel that Gardner was concerned with the Craft being a religion as well as a magickal tradition, but do not know if this was because of Doreen's influence. I would love to know what people's views are.
The radio podcast can be found here;
www.blogtalkradio.com/witchtalk
If you scroll down the page you can find and listen to parts 1 and 2 of the "Wicca as a continuation of the Medieval Grimoire Tradition" discussion. I think there are a lot of topics of interest on this radio show actually.
BB
Seth
