What are some discredited claims about Wicca?

There are no “claims about Wicca.” Wicca is a religion. It’s a path that helps adherents connect with the Divine as they understand the Divine. It offers ways of handling hardships, ways of growing personally, and ways of making sense of our world. There are no “claims” to even BE “discredited.” Someone needs to read better sources. read more

Wicca is a very diverse religion, but in general, Wicca believe in a goddess and god, in the sanctity of nature and the natural cycle, in personal responsibility and freedom, and promoting good over bad. read more

Historian of witchcraft Michael D. Bailey suggested that Ginzburg's work "somewhat revived" Murray's "discredited notion of witchcraft representing an ancient fertility religion". Conversely, other scholars drew a clear divide between the ideas of Murray and Ginzburg; in 1975, Cohn stated that Ginzburg's discovery had "nothing to do" with Murray's witch-cult hypothesis. read more