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Wicca, n.|ˈwɪkə|
Also Wica, wicca.
[a. OE wicca: see witch n.1 and n.2]
The practices and religious cult of modern witchcraft.
1959G. B. Gardner Meaning of Witchcraft 259 One of the ways in which the Craft of Wica has served the Aquarian Age has been in the way it has kept alive the teaching of reincarnation and karma. 1972Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 1971 10 The ancient rites of the wicca, as witchcraft is known to its serious practitioners, were practiced in 1971 with no one knows what degree of success by no one knows how many witches in the United States. 1980N.Y. Times 28 Sept. i. 26/1 Two local evangelists..found out a few days ago about the Wicca convention and witchcraft seminar. 1987Insight 8 June 59/1 Though the origins of Wicca, or witchcraft, are disputed, its followers agree on their pursuit of harmony with nature and an enhanced spirituality. 1991Sky Mag. Feb. 66/1 He did wed one of his regular girlfriends..in a Wicca ceremony..in which souls are fused on a karmic and cosmic plane, and death..does not part the lovers. |