Etymology of Wicca published; the earliest was Paul Huson's "Mastering Witchcraft" (1970), which made no reference to "Wicca". This was followed by Raymond Buckland's "The Tree: The Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft", in which he propagated his newly developed tradition of Seax-Wica; utilising "Wica" as the name of the tradition, he also referenced "the Wicca" as the name of the religion as a whole. Contrastingly, during the 1970s the term "Wicca" was rejected by feminist Pagan Witchcraft groups in the United States, in particular the Dianic tradition; the term does not appear in the early works of Zsuzsanna Budapest and Starhawk, although the
Algard Wicca homosexual. Algard Wicca Algard Wicca is a tradition, or denomination, in the Neo-Pagan religion of Wicca. It was founded in the United States in 1972 by Mary Nesnick, an initiate of both Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca, in an attempt to fuse the two traditions. Because of this fusion, it is categorised under the heading of British Traditional Wicca, with its initiates being able to trace their lineage back to Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern-day Wicca. One of the spiritual seekers who approached Nesnick in the early 1970s was Eddie Buczynski, but she turned him down for initiation because he