# Wicca · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/wicca/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 106 Wicca The Craft; Witchcraft (modern) 1954 CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · UK, US, Australia, Canada, Brazil VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1899, 1921 CE Charles Leland's Aradia; Margaret Murray 's witch-cult hypothesis, which claimed European witch trials had persecuted a surviving pagan religion. It is now comprehensively rejected by historians, and it was the historical premise on which Wicca was built. - 1951 CE Britain repeals the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which had criminalised claiming magical powers. Wicca could not have been published before this. - 1954 CE Gardner publishes Witchcraft Today. - 1953–1960s CE Doreen Valiente rewrites the ritual corpus, removing much of Crowley's material and giving Wicca its distinctive voice. - 1960s CE Alex Sanders founds the Alexandrian tradition. - 1968–1979 CE Wicca reaches America; Dianic Wicca founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in 1971; Starhawk's Spiral Dance connects it to feminism and ecological activism. - 1985 CE Dettmer v. Landon — a US federal court recognises Wicca as a religion entitled to First Amendment protection. - 1980s–90s CE The Satanic Panic falsely associates Wicca with ritual abuse; no evidence for the alleged network was ever found. - 2007 CE After a decade of litigation, the US Department of Veterans Affairs permits the pentacle on military headstones. - 2010s–present Rapid growth, largely solitary and online; substantial internal argument over cultural appropriation and over the exclusion of transgender women by some Dianic groups. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door