Modern History of Witchcraft

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  • Jan 1, 906

    Publication of the Canon Episcopi by the General Council of Ancyra

    Published by the church and refers to the heretical beliefs of 'certain wicked women' of witchcraft.

  • Margaret Ine Quane and son burned alive

    Only recorded execution of a Witch on the Isle of Man. Memorial placed for her and all Witches killed in the Folklore center at later date

  • The Witches Mill

    Old Mill in Isle of Man. Ruins used by Arbory Witches to hold circle after in burned down.

  • Charles Godfrey Leland was initiated into the Witch-Lore of the Romagna

    And meets Maddalena with whom he wrote Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches in 1899

  • Publication of Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches

    By Charles Godfrey Leland

  • Publication of The Witch-Cult in Western Europe

    By Dr Margaret Alice Murray. She discarded all notions that witchcraft was associated with Satanism and devil-worship. She referred to witchcraft as the Dianic Cult.

  • Founding of the Fraternity of the Inner Light

    By Dion Fortune (aka Violet Firth and Mrs Penry-Evans)

  • Self Publication of The Sea Priestess

    By Dion Fortune. No one else would publish a book of this nature at the time.

  • F.P.D., Christine Hartley and Gerald Gardner opened same channel on Inner Plane

    Bringing together Indigenous Woman's mysteries and the Pagan Mysteries of England.

  • Lammas gathering in New Forest to raise cone of power against Hitler

    17 men and women gathered to prevent Hitler from crossing the Channel and invading Britain.

  • Last Major Witch Trial in Britain

    Took place at Old Bailey. Last Major Witch Trial in Britain of Spiritualist Medium Helen Duncan.

  • Publication of The White Goddess

    By Robert Graves

  • Death of Aleister Crowley

  • Publication of High Magic's Aid

    By Gerald Gardner

  • Fraudulent Mediums Act Passed

    This repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1735. The only way that occultists and mediums could be prosecuted was in cases of deliberate fraud.

  • Opening of the Witches' Mill

    Opening of The Folklore Center of Superstition and Witchcraft by Cecil H Williamson at Castletown in the Isle of Man. Opening performed by Gerald B Gardner.

  • Publication of The Great Beast Book

    John Symonds' biography of Aleister Crowley (The Master Therion or The Great Beast)