[Opinion] What's your opinion on Wicca?

[Denise13]

"Also in the first half of XX century, ceremonial stuff, spiritualists stuff and theosophical stuff altoghether with egyptomania and later avalon and arthuromania were intertwined so thightly and occult scene so small that it was impossible to find pure bred. At least this is how i see it."

This is very true. In the 1960s revival, we sought out anything about magic we could find. By then there were some books around and they were getting easier to find. The newsletters like Circle Network News in the US came later and much of the magical interest flourishing then was Wicca-based.

 

[WonderFire]

Traditional and Alexandrian Wicca are fine, I mean they're 20th century ceremonial magick with romantic pagan flavour so it depends how you rate 20th century ceremonialism in the first place.
Various eclectic wiccans are often terrible as it's just vibe based spirituality, with witchtok and instagram "witches" who just post their altars and don't really practice magic at all.
Appropriation is just dumb woke idea used to hate white people.

 

[MorganBlack]

I know it's not popular to say, but I'm starting to cheer for Wicca to make a comeback.

It was dropped far too quickly when everyone figured out in 1999 the Margaret Murryite Hypothesis (that witchcraft was a survival of a matriarchal "pagan" religion) was an Anglo academic hallucination. Like, yeah, but so what? But then "modern pagan revivalism " got stupider and stupider on the way down - chasing the car bumper of even more authentic horseshit. Groups that claim to be pure reconstructions of Norse, Celtic, or Slavic faiths still use a Wiccan operating system. All fine, just beware the fakelore head-trip. And Gen-X has a lot to answer for what i think of as now Consumerist Animism. We wrote books about Goetia, and animist practices like Vodou, and released the idea into the wilds of the internet where the core idea mutated into ghastly (and not in a good way) stupid and ugly shit like Diabolist Witch Slop:
Diabolist Witch-Slop City