Gerald Gardner
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Gerald Brosseau Gardner, also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, author, and amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the modern pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.
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Gardner with his Irish nursemaid, Com, during the 1880s
While working in Borneo in 1911, Gardner eschewed the racist attitudes of his colleagues by befriending members of the Dayak indigenous community, fascinated by their magico-religious beliefs, tattoos and displays of weaponry.
A selection of kris knives; Gardner took a great interest in such items, even authoring the definitive text on the subject, Keris and Other Malay Weapons (1936).
A plaque erected to mark the house at Highcliffe where Gardner lived during the Second World War.
The Temple of the Rose Cross, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, 1618.
The Mill House in Highcliffe, where Gardner was supposedly initiated into the Craft
The Witches' Cottage, where Gardner and his Bricket Wood coven performed their ritualsWriters from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1964 · aged 79
Written about in
27 languages
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