... a full moon. I never thought of it as a religion, but it was the first religion, according to Dr. Margaret Murray, who studies witchcraft's history and origins. Raymond Bucklands book, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft mentions her research, saying that she found it to be a fully organized religion throughout Western Europe centuries before Christianity (1). I being Christian, thought that it was Satanic until ... In his book Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, Scott Cunningham writes "some use Wicca' and Witch' almost interchangeably" (iv). Wicca is the religion of the wi...

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• Grade Level: High School