Bruce K. Wilborn - Witches Craft: A Multidenominational Wicca Bible

I would like to send my deepest thanks to everyone who contributed to this book in any way. Without the tremendous help and support of all these wonderful people, I wouldnt have been able to compile even one-tenth of this much information.

General thanks, however, are not sufficient to show my appreciation to everyone who helped make this book a reality. So, despite the fact that I might embarrass them with praise, Id like to single out a few of my strongest supporters. My sincerest gratitude and thanks go out to Kristen Zagranski, Jennifer Koch, and Kim Olsen-Hinkley for helping me with things that I couldnt possibly have done by myself. Likewise, I cant say enough about the efforts of Lady Marlene, Richard, Alexander, and Julia. If it werent for these people, this book would still be a tangled mass of scrap paper, handwritten notes, and incoherent thoughts. Id also like to send sincere thanks to Dimple Aaron, Joyce Bridgeman, Ruth Leahy, and Brian Moore for everything that theyve supplied me with over the years.

Id also be remiss if I didnt thank my editor, Allan Wilson, and my publisher, Carole Stuart, for making this book possible. If it werent for the fact that they decided to take a chance on this project, I would never have been able to share my intimate knowledge of the Craft with so many people.

Blessed Be!

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Unlike Christianity, which began on the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the humble beginnings of modern Wicca cant be narrowed down to a particular day. About the closest anyone can come is to say that Paganism is as old as mankind itself. Evidence of this claim can be seen throughout history.

Sometime between 30,000-25,000 B.C.E., ancient artisans carved a stone figurine, known as the Venus of Willendorf, to honor the Goddess of Fertility. Around the same time, the Venus of Laussel was carved on the wall of a rock shelter in Dordogne. Still other Venusesof Sireuil and of Lespugneprove that Willendorf and Laussel were not isolated coincidences. Between 30,000 and 12,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic cave art depicts images of a naked Goddess and a Horned God. Mankind had begun to plant the seeds of Paganism.

Within five thousand years after the last cave painting, around 7000 B.C.E., the first traces of Goddess cults, complete with Horned God consort, appeared as a recognizable religion. Three thousand years later, small farming communities were springing up in southeastern Europe, and for the first time in history, clay statuettes of a Mother Goddess started to appear regularly in households while clay tablets with magickal and ritualistic inscriptions became commonplace. But larger tributes were on the horizon.