'Wicca (i.e, modern neopagan witchcraft) is the only religion that England has given to the world. Wicca was founded, or perhaps created in a better world, by a retired civil servant, Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884-1964) in the 1940s.
Gardner had left England as a young man in early 1900s to work as a tea planter, rubber plantation inspector, and Customs officer in the Far East, where he studied Eastern religions and the magical beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of Borneo and Malaysia.
On his frequent visits back to England on leave, he attended Spiritualist séances and studied psychic research.
In 1936 Gardner retired from Customs Service and returned home permanently.
He became involved in archaeology and naturism (for health reasons), joined the Folklore Society and the Ancient Druid Order, and was ordained as a minister in an unorthodox Christian sect known as the Ancient British Church.'
-- Quoted from 'Modern Wicca' book by Michael Howard.
See also, if You wish: About Wicca.
(perhaps will be continued/edited later, if/when i can).
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