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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:57 pm
I'm not really sure how I want to do this. I don't really want to have specific lesson plans.... Mostly, this is going to be focused on dismissing misunderstandings. The history of witchcraft and Paganism is so massive and widespread, I'd have to have a big topic on every different religion to do it justice. The history of Asatru and the history of witchcraft and the history of Wicca are all quite different, after all, and interesting in their own rights. So I'm just going to wing it and focus on random topics from time to time. I'll post links to major posts here. ThebanWicca (basic history)
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:45 pm
is theban really the witches alphabet?
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:07 pm
Damiana Freesia is theban really the witches alphabet? Short answer: no. It's hard to call anything "the witches' alphabet", because of course all witches use different alphabets. Many modern witches write with theban as a way to stop people reading their work, so in that sense you could say "yes", but really I'm not sure the majority of witches use it even occasionally, and witches are not the first people to use it. Historically, if they could write at all, witches would have used whichever alphabet they knew. Likely Latin. The first source we have for theban is Agrippa's teacher, Trithemius, in the 16th century. As such if it was used by users of magic before the last hundred years or so, it would have been more likely to be ceremonial magicians using it than witches. Personally I have no use for an alphabet with such a complicated full-stop wink
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:34 pm
Sanguina Cruenta Damiana Freesia is theban really the witches alphabet? Short answer: no. It's hard to call anything "the witches' alphabet", because of course all witches use different alphabets. Many modern witches write with theban as a way to stop people reading their work, so in that sense you could say "yes", but really I'm not sure the majority of witches use it even occasionally, and witches are not the first people to use it. Historically, if they could write at all, witches would have used whichever alphabet they knew. Likely Latin. The first source we have for theban is Agrippa's teacher, Trithemius, in the 16th century. As such if it was used by users of magic before the last hundred years or so, it would have been more likely to be ceremonial magicians using it than witches. Personally I have no use for an alphabet with such a complicated full-stop wink lolz thank you
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Tabitha Twain Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:04 pm
So, Im sorry if I am a bother, but when you say "witches Alphabet"... Do you mean what language they spoke correct?
I'd like to be sure before we go on to another topic.
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:04 pm
Tabitha Twain So, Im sorry if I am a bother, but when you say "witches Alphabet"... Do you mean what language they spoke correct? I'd like to be sure before we go on to another topic. No, "alphabet" in this context is the script. Here it is smile Okay, thank you so much! 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:12 pm
Sanguina Cruenta Tabitha Twain So, Im sorry if I am a bother, but when you say "witches Alphabet"... Do you mean what language they spoke correct? I'd like to be sure before we go on to another topic. No, "alphabet" in this context is the script. Here it is smile That looks kinda complicated. Though I was a dweeb when I first started writing my BoS. I was writing it in "Dragon" which was just a ripoff of runes.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:32 am
I can write theban very well
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:38 pm
It reminds me a bit of Tolkienian Elvish in the way it looks.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:17 pm
Wicca, a basic history
Wicca is a modern form of religious witchcraft. Coven-based and experiential, it is a mystery religion formed in the first half of the 20th century by former public servant Gerald Gardner.
A member of some ceremonial magic groups, Gardner claims to have found a witch coven in the area of New Forest, England. Though sworn to secrecy, he says the group allowed the publication of some non-oathbound elements of the religion after the Witchcraft Act was lifted in 1951. Some people date Wicca to this year, as it's the first year we are "officially" aware of it, though Gardner had already released a novel, "High Magic's Aid", that involved a fair amount of information about Wicca.
It is generally agreed that Gardner created Wicca, possibly by taking the remains of a form of witchcraft and adding elements of ceremonialism. The work of Egyptologist Margaret Murray served as inspiration, as did texts such as Charles Leland's "Aradia" and James Frazer's "The Golden Bough". Gardner himself claimed the rituals of the coven into which he was initiated were fragmentary and needed to be fleshed out, something he did himself. Some of the texts of Wicca, such as the Charge of the Goddess, were rewritten by Doreen Valiente, one of his High Priestesses, as Gardner wasn't the world's best poet.
That's the basics! Any questions?
Recommended: Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon
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