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
Georgian Wicca Georgian Wicca Georgian Wicca is a tradition, or denomination, in the neopagan religion of Wicca. In its organisation, it is very similar to British Traditional Wicca groups such as Gardnerian Wicca, however, it does not trace its initiatory line to one of the old English covens. The name "Georgian" refers to its founder, George Patterson, who founded the tradition in 1970 in the United States. The Georgian Tradition was founded in 1970 by George Eliott (Pat) Patterson III, when he began teaching his first students, two women called Zanoni Silverknife and Tanith. It began as a small coven in Patterson’s