Wicca with the Celtic festival is the name. Gardner himself made use of the English names of these holidays, stating that "the four great Sabbats are Candlemass, May Eve, Lammas, and Halloween; the equinoxes and solstices are celebrated also." In the Egyptologist Margaret Murray's "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" (1921) and "The God of the Witches" (1933), in which she dealt with what she believed had been a historical Witch-Cult, she stated that the four main festivals had survived Christianisation and had been celebrated in the pagan Witchcraft religion. Subsequently, when Wicca was first developing in the 1930s through to the
Magical tools in Wicca The former is based on Ceremonial magic and may be more commonly practiced in Alexandrian covens. The latter is more typical of the Hedgewitch, who would be more likely to use everyday tools and utensils, rather than fabricating specially made magical tools. Works CIted Cameron, S. (2005). Wiccanomics? Review of Social Economy,63(1), 87-100. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/29770291 Greenwood, S. (1995). 'Wake the Flame Inside Us': Magic, Healing and the Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain. Etnofoor, 8(1), 47-62. Retrieved from Magical tools in Wicca In the neopagan religion of Wicca, a range of magical tools are used in ritual practice. Each of