These figures include Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba, and Janet and Stewart Farrar to name a few. Though originally a secret text only given to initiates of Wicca, many initiate and non-initiates alike have gone on to print various Books of Shadows. That rule has proved unfeasible, and it is commonplace for all Witches to have their own copies." In the various traditions that make up British Traditional Wicca, copies of the original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess Doreen Valiente, along with alterations and additions that have been made since then, is followed by adherents. Initially, when Wicca was still dominated by covens, "only one copy existed for an entire coven, kept by the high priestess or high priest. The Book of Shadows is also used by other Wiccan traditions, such as Alexandrian Wicca and Mohsianism, and with the rise of books teaching people how to begin following non-initiatory Wicca in the 1970s onward, the idea of the Book of Shadows was then further propagated amongst solitary practitioners unconnected to earlier, initiatory traditions. The most famous Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades.
Since its conception in the 1970s, it has made its way into many pagan practices and paths.
One of Gerald Gardner's earliest Books of Shadows.Ī Book of Shadows is a book containing religious text and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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