Raymond Buckland
English writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Raymond Buckland (31 August 1934 – 27 September 2017), whose craft name was Robat, was an English writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he was a high priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax-Wica traditions.
Raymond Buckland | |
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Born | 31 August 1934 (1934-08-31) |
Died | 27 September 2017 (2017-09-28) (aged 83) Ohio, United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Parent(s) | Stanley Thomas Buckland, Eileen Lizzie Wells |
According to his written works, primarily Witchcraft from the Inside, published in 1971, he was the first person in the United States to openly admit to being a practitioner of Wicca, and he introduced the lineage of Gardnerian Wicca to the United States in 1964, after having been initiated by Gerald Gardner's then-high priestess Monique Wilson in Britain the previous year. He later formed his own tradition dubbed Seax-Wica which focuses on the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon paganism.[1]