| Definitions | proper noun
- A Neopagan religion and religious movement first popularised in 1954 by British civil servant w:Gerald Gardner, Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of God and Goddess and the observance of eight Sabbats.
Etymology: A twentieth-century representation of the wiccaOld English, wiÄÄa, in the mistaken belief that it was so pronounced. The term was introduced as Wica by Gerald Gardner (Witchcraft Today, 1954), alleging that the term was used as self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft who initiated him in 1939. The spelling Wicca is first attested in June John's 1969 King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders.
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