About Wicca
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- The origins of Wiccan culture date back as far as 15,000 B.C. when people believed that healers possessed supernatural talents. The believed the healers; also known as medicine men, or witches, were held highly in society.
- In the year 600 A.D. Gregory the Great, a Christian Pope proclaims "all the gods of the heathens are demons".
- In the 1200's christianity replaces traditional religion
- In the 1300's women were singled out and suspected to be witches
- In 1448 Pope Innocent VIII issues an edict that calls for eradication of witches and other heathens
- In 1486 Malleas male ficarum (hammer of witches) triggers witch hunts
- In 1647 Alse Young is executed as a witch in westfield connecticut
- Alse Young was 47 years old when she was hanged in westfield connecticut because she was heir to her husband, John Youngs estate
- In 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne writes Young Goodman Brown a story about puritan bigotry and repression
- In 1921 British Archeologist Margret Murray writers Witch Cult In Europe Sparking interest in covens
- In 1951 Anti-Witchcraft laws were repealed by parlement
- Also in 1951 Enlish writer Gerald B. Gardner declares himself wiccan
- In the 1960's Neo-Paganism spreads through North America and Europe
- In 1975 Covenant of the Goddess is formed to incorporate hundreds of Wiccan covens
- In 1985 the District Court of Virginia declares Wicca legitimate religion protected by the 1st amendment
- In 1999 A Wiccan vernal equinox celebration (a celebration of autumn) began controversy in Fort hood, Texas.