Fifty Years of Wicca

Frederic Lamond has spent 50 years following the path of Gardnerian Wicca, adapting and innovating along the way. An initiate of Gerald Gardner's Brickett Wood Coven in the '50s and '60s, which heralded the rebirth of Wicca in modern times, he has been a witness to the significant events that have shaped Wicca in the USA and UK. Fifty years since the publication of Witchcraft Today, Frederic Lamond offers a penetrating assessment of what modern Wicca has achieved in that time its successes, its failures and its future. This insider's overview of the Wiccan world is full of in-group gossip, shrewd observation and a one-of-a-kind perspective of the half-century revival of the old craft.