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Title Britain's Wicca Man / Director: Abbott, Andrew
Published Australia : ABC, 2015
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Summary The extraordinary story of one of Britain's fastest-growing religious groups, and its eccentric creator.The modern pagan witchcraft of Wicca was born in 1930s Britain in a nudist colony in Dorset. Wicca rapidly grew from a small New Forest coven to a worldwide religion in the space of just 70 years.British historian and leading expert in Pagan Studies, Professor Ronald Hutton, explores Wicca's history, and its eccentric English creator Gerald Gardner. It's a journey that tells of naked witches casting spells to ward off Hitler, tabloid hysteria about human sacrifices and Gerald Gardner himself
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2015-02-17 at 03:55:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject Gardner, Gerald Brosseau, 1884-1964.
Incantations.
Ritual -- Psychology.
Witchcraft -- Manuscripts.
Wicca.
England -- Dorset.
Form Streaming video
Author Abbott, Andrew, director
Leven, Russell, director
Hutton, Ronald, host
Beskin, Geraldine, contributor
Bourne, Lois, contributor
Cox, Zachary, contributor
Harrington, Christina Oakley, contributor
Heselton, Philip, contributor
Hughes, Ellie, contributor
Stevenson, Ian, contributor