What are the origins of Modern Witchcraft?
There is a great deal of debate over this within the Craft Community. For instance, our mythology holds that the religion of Witchcraft was passed down from descendants of the Atlantian priest/esshood and that Y Dynion Mwyn is a long-held Welsh family Witchcraft tradition, passed down through mothers and grandmothers since at least 1282, which was persecuted by Christians for hundreds of years but survived secretly in covens in the mountains of North Wales; Others feel that Witchcraft is a ancient religious remnant which has been passed down from parent to child over the past three thousand years or so. Finally there are those who argue that modern Witchcraft (Wicca) was pieced together from bits of occult knowledge by Gerald Gardner, with significant revisions by Doreen Valiente (and others) since 1939. Who is right? See History of Wicca HERE.
