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What are the differences between Wicca and shamanism?

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Wicca is a religion. Shamanism is a practice. Wicca is a new religious movement born in England out of European Romanticism, Western esotericism (e.g. theosophy, Freemasonry, Hermeticism), folklore, folk magic, and ideas about the medieval witch hunts. read more

Thus, anywhere in the world where a person works to bridge the gap between the worlds, between the spirits and the embodied, between this world and the other worlds, that person is a shaman. Shamanism is not a specific religion or philosophy, but is the act of working with the spirits and journeying between the worlds. read more

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