- Witchcraft Today
Infobox Book
name = Witchcraft Today
translator =
author =Gerald Gardner
country =United Kingdom
language = English
genre =History Folklore Wicca
publisher = Various
release_date =1954
isbn ="Witchcraft Today" is a non-fiction book written by the founder of the
Wiccan religion,Gerald Gardner . Published in 1954, "Witchcraft Today" recounts Gardner's thoughts on the history ofwitchcraft , and details his disputedcite book | first=Ronald | last=Hutton | authorlink=Ronald Hutton | title=Triumph of the Moon | publisher =Oxford University Press | year=2000 | id=ISBN 0-500-27242-5] claim to have met practicing Witches in 1930sEngland . "Witchcraft Today" is one of the foundational texts for the religion ofWicca , along with Gardner's second book on the subject, 1959's "The Meaning of Witchcraft ".By his own admission, Gardner incorporates material from other sources to supplement the "fragmentary" tradition that he was initiated into; such other sources seemingly include
Margaret Murray 's theory of a pan-European witch-cult andCharles Godfrey Leland 's "Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches ". Gardner also repeats the vastly exaggerated claim, already made by several other authors, that 9 million victims were killed in the Europeanwitch hunt s.Notes and references
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