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Robert Cochrane (witch)

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Robert Cochrane (26 January 1931 – 3 July 1966), who was born as Roy Bowers, was an English occultist who founded the tradition of Pagan Witchcraft known as Cochrane's Craft. [1]

29 relations: Boline, Book of Shadows, Cochrane (surname), Cochrane's Craft, Counterculture of the 1960s, Coven (disambiguation), Cunning folk in Britain, Deaths in July 1966, Doreen Valiente, Evan John Jones (witch), Gardnerian Wicca, Godgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready, Gray magic, History of Wicca, Horned God, Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, Margaret Murray, Michael Howard (Luciferian), Psychic News, Robert Cochran, Rollright Stones, The Coven (film), Traditional witchcraft, Wicca, William G. Gray, Witch-cult hypothesis, Witchcraft, Witchcraft Research Association, 1734 Tradition.

Boline

In Wicca the boline (also spelled bolline, pr: bow-leen) is a white-handled ritual knife, one of several magical tools used in Wicca, mainly for the cutting of herbs and inscribing candles.

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Book of Shadows

A Book of Shadows is a book containing religious texts and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca, and in many pagan practices.

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Cochrane (surname)

Cochrane is a surname with multiple independent origins, two Scottish and one Irish.

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Cochrane's Craft

Cochrane’s Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a tradition of traditional witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught it by some of his elderly family members, a claim that is disputed by some historians such as Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Coven (disambiguation)

A coven or covan is a gathering of witches.

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Cunning folk in Britain

The cunning folk in Britain were professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic in Britain, active from the Medieval period through the early twentieth century.

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Deaths in July 1966

This is a list of deaths in July 1966.

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Doreen Valiente

Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente (4 January 1922–1 September 1999) was an English Wiccan who was responsible for writing much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

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Evan John Jones (witch)

Evan John Jones (1936–2003) was an English Traditional Witch, occultist and writer who operated within the tradition of Cochrane's Craft.

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Gardnerian Wicca

Gardnerian Wicca, or Gardnerian witchcraft, is a "Wicca is essentially a mystery cult" --> tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner.

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Godgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready

Goda of England or Godgifu; (Godjifu; the Old English name Godgifu or Godgyfu meant "gift of God", Godiva was the Latinised version; 1004 – c. 1047) was the daughter of King Ethelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor.

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Gray magic

Gray magic is magic that is not performed for specifically beneficial reasons, but is also not focused towards completely hostile practices.

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History of Wicca

The history of Wicca documents the rise of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based Neopagan religions.

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Horned God

The Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism.

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Joseph Bearwalker Wilson

Joseph Bearwalker Wilson (1942–2004) was a shaman and witch, founder of the 1734 Tradition of witchcraft, the Toteg Tribe, Metista, and a founding member of the Covenant of the Goddess.

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.

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Michael Howard (Luciferian)

Michael Howard (1948–2015) was an English practitioner of Luciferian Witchcraft and a prolific author on esoteric topics.

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Psychic News

Psychic News was a weekly British Spiritualist newspaper published from 1932 to July 2010, and revived with a change in ownership in December 2011.

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Robert Cochran

Robert Cochran or Robert Cochrane may refer to.

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Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones is a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.

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The Coven (film)

The Coven is a 2015 United Kingdom fantasy horror feature film directed by John Mackie (director) and starring Dexter Fletcher.

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Traditional witchcraft

Traditional witchcraft is a term used to refer to a variety of contemporary forms of witchcraft.

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Wicca

Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement.

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William G. Gray

William G. Gray (1913–1992), better known to many as Bill Gray, was an English ceremonial magician, Hermetic Qabalist and writer, who published widely on the subject of western esotericism and the occult.

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Witch-cult hypothesis

The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pre-Christian, pagan religion that had survived the Christianisation of Europe.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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Witchcraft Research Association

The Witchcraft Research Association was a British organisation formed in 1964 in an attempt to unite and study the various claims that had emerged of surviving remnants of the so-called Witch-Cult, such as those of Gerald Gardner, Robert Cochrane, Sybil Leek, Charles Cardell and Raymond Howard.

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1734 Tradition

The 1734 Tradition is a form of traditional witchcraft founded by the American Joseph Bearwalker Wilson in 1973, after developing it since 1964.

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Robert Cochrane (Witch), Roy Bowers.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cochrane_(witch)

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