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...little based on historical findings and is mixture of many influences from Gardner's time, instead of being a reconstruction of any one culture or religion. T

*In 1971, author John Gardner published the novel Grendel, which was the telling of Beowulf from the mons ...stic Method : Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl''. Eds. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr. The Hague, New York: Mouton Publishers, 1979. 213-30.

...aditions have since evolved, or been adapted from, the form established by Gardner, which came to be called Gardnerian Wicca. These other traditions of Wicca According to Gerald Gardner, the religion derives from a secret but widespread witch-cult of early mode

...he existence of a [[witch]]-cult that dated back to pre-Christian Europe. Gardner combined magic and [[religion]] in a way that was later to cause people to ...eopaganism]] and other [[Earth religion]]s that have been publicized since Gardner's publication tend to follow a pattern in combining the practice of magic a

...that witchcraft still existed in England] Since then the "[[Wicca]]" that Gardner was initiated into has attracted many more initiates and become the largest