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Wikipedia, "Wicca"
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A community-maintained tertiary reference on Wicca, directly examined. Its strength is a precise founding date and named compilers for its central liturgical document; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Pagan studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on Wicca, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its development in England during the first half of the twentieth century and its 1954 public introduction by the retired civil servant Gerald Gardner, the Book of Shadows as compiled and repeatedly adapted by Gardner, the Charge of the Goddess as one of Wicca's best-known liturgical texts with Doreen Valiente's contribution to it, the Esbat and Sabbat calendar structure, and the statement that the Book of Shadows was originally meant to be kept secret from non-initiates. Deliberately not used for the wording of any invocation or the Charge of the Goddess's own text, which stays undescribed here.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (114 claims)
This source backs 114 claims across the atlas. As facts: 107 well-attested. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Religions, 92 claims: 91 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Prayers, 14 claims: 8 well-attested, 6 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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