{"id":3910,"date":"2012-03-06T13:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:12:35","slug":"wicca-man-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wicca Man&#8221; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the trailer for the new British documentary on<a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgardner.com\/\"> Gerald Gardner<\/a>, theatrically introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/hutton.html\">Ronald Hutton<\/a> rather like an episode of the archaeology program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/secrets\/\"><em>Secrets of the Dead<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35964445?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/35964445\">Britain&#8217;s Wicca Man &#8211; (C) Matchlight<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/matchlight\">Matchlight<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to hear Professor Hutton say that Wicca was developed in the 1940s\u2014I would say the very late 1940s at that, definitely post-World War II.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to give up on the whole legend of the hidden coven at the Rosicrucian Theatre, of Gardner&#8217;s 1939 initiation at Dorothy Clutterbuck&#8217;s house, of the 1940 Lammas working against a possible German invasion, and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence for any of it except Gardner&#8217;s say-so, and if those things happened, they do not gibe at all with what we know that Gardner was doing in the 1939-1947 period, namely trying out a variety of different esoteric groups before he &#8220;found&#8221; the one that he liked\u2014Wicca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the trailer for the new British documentary on Gerald Gardner, theatrically introduced by Ronald Hutton rather like an episode of the archaeology program Secrets of the Dead. Britain&#8217;s Wicca Man &#8211; (C) Matchlight from Matchlight on Vimeo. I am happy to hear Professor Hutton say that Wicca was developed in the 1940s\u2014I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,100,6],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-history","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-114","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13198,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13198","url_meta":{"origin":3910,"position":0},"title":"The First Wiccan Book Published in India","author":"Chas S. 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