Wicca
Neopagan nature faith
Wicca is a modern pagan religion that emerged in mid-20th-century England, emphasizing nature worship, seasonal rituals, and witchcraft.
Practitioners (Wiccans) typically honor a goddess and god, celebrate eight seasonal festivals, and follow an ethical code often summarized as "harm none." Though sometimes used interchangeably with witchcraft, Wicca specifically denotes the organized religion rather than magical practice generally.
Assembly of witches
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- spellArrange letters correctly
- Book of ShadowsWiccan ritual text
- pentacleEncircled five-pointed star
cauldron · altar · circle · invocation · handfasting · casting · chalice · besom
Practice of casting enchantments
- candle magicRitual using lit wicks
- herbalismPlant-based healing tradition
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- tarotDivination card set
scrying · sigil · charm · talisman · amulet · correspondences · intention · manifestation
Celtic harvest-end observance
- BeltaneCeltic spring fire festival
- solsticeDay of maximum tilt
- equinoxSun crosses celestial midline
- harvestGathering mature crops
fertility · bonfire · feast · seasonal · celebration · ancestor · veil
Supreme spiritual authority
- polarityState of opposing forces
- immanenceQuality of residing within
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
Summerland · animism · pantheism · nature worship · sacred feminine · wheel of the year · elemental · spirit
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Assembly of witches
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- spellArrange letters correctly
- Book of ShadowsWiccan ritual text
pentacle · cauldron · altar · circle · invocation · handfasting · casting · chalice · besom · initiation
spellwork
Practice of casting enchantments
- candle magicRitual using lit wicks
- herbalismPlant-based healing tradition
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
tarot · scrying · sigil · charm · talisman · amulet · correspondences · intention · manifestation · waning
Samhain
Celtic harvest-end observance
harvest · fertility · bonfire · feast · seasonal · celebration · ancestor · veil
God
Supreme spiritual authority
- polarityState of opposing forces
- immanenceQuality of residing within
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
karma · Summerland · animism · pantheism · nature worship · sacred feminine · wheel of the year · elemental · spirit
- New ReligionsScientology, Hare Krishna, ISKCON, Unification Church, Branch Davidians
- Spiritual MovementsGnosticism, Theosophy, theosophy, Kabbalah, Sufism
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- religionsChristianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
WiccaCatholicism
Papal Christian denomination
Southern Baptist · Puritanism · Christianity · Islam · Orthodox Judaism
Wiccatechno-utopianism
Faith that innovation solves all
transhumanism · industrialism · anti-environmentalism · prosperity gospel · Gnosticism
Wiccaorganized religion
Structured communal belief systems
state religion · witch-hunting · Inquisition · Salem trials · fundamentalism
- wicked stepmother tropeHostile replacement mother figure
- wicked stepmotherFolkloric maternal villain
- wicked grin
- wicked stepsisters
- wicked smart
- Wicked WitchMalevolent female magic-user