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   From: jani@dsl.pipex.com   
      
   "mika"  wrote in message   
   news:1109887025.936989.160080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Jani wrote:   
   >   
   >>  did you know that Gardner and Crowley cooked up   
   >> Wicca so they could whip naked girls without getting arrested?   
   >   
   > Gardner cooked up Wicca based on Crowley's work.  I don't know of any   
   > reliable references that show that Crowley had direct involvement in   
   > Wicca or its creation, do you?  Additionally, from his written work it   
   > seems he couldn't care less about practitioners of witchcraft as he   
   > considered it to be a lesser, deficient path of study compared to   
   > hermetic magick.  Witches weren't worthy of even the lash of his whip.   
   >   
   > Besides, he had a distinct preference for whipping naked boys.   
      
   It was a joke. There's an article which has an imaginary conversation   
   between Crowley and GBG, supposedly creating Wicca over a couple of bottles   
   of brown ale and a lot of nudge-nudge about the scourging.   
      
   Seriously, though, there are certainly Crowleyan elements in Wicca, but I   
   don't know of any sources which say they were freely contributed - far as I   
   know, GBG simply appropriated them and slotted them in along with his other   
   strands.   
      
   Jani   
      
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