While I do not claim to be an official Wiccan (more of a fan-girl, really) I’ve learned many valuable lessons from the father and mother of Wicca: Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente. The most ...

Next month sees an exciting event in the Pagan calendar, when the Doreen Valiente Foundation with the Centre for Pagan Studies publishes Philip Heselton’s long-awaited biography of Doreen Valiente. As ...

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Practicing witchcraft in 1542 Britain meant death, a punishment enforced globally during the early modern period. Nowadays, after filtering through the pages of Harry Potter and renditions of Defying ...

Artefacts and paraphernalia belonging to a woman regarded as "the mother of witchcraft" have gone on display in her home city of Brighton and Hove. Doreen Valiente made history when the block of flats ...

In 2013, a blue plaque, the historic marker of British heritage, was bestowed, for the first time, on the home of a witch. “[Valiente’s] collection is seen as the most important of its kind in the ...

Doreen Valiente was the first practitioner to speak openly about the ancient rituals and beliefs when a law banning them was lifted in 1951. Her supporters say she ignited a pagan revival, which took ...

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Drawing on public documents, interviews, and Doreen Valiente's own published books and personal journals, Heselton pieces together a compelling look at the life of "the mother of modern witchcraft." ...

Doreen Valiente was one of the first to speak openly about witchcraft when it ceased to be illegal in 1951 A witch living in a block of flats in Brighton was "very reclusive - she just was there - you ...

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