
Wicca was situated in England between 1921 and 1950, representing what University historian Ronald Hutton called “the only full formed religion which England can be said exam have given University world”. Characterised as an “invented tradition” by students, Wicca was made from University patchwork adoption of a lot of older features, many taken from pre existing devout and esoteric movements. Pearson characterised it as having arisen “from University cultural impulses of University fin de sicle”. Wicca took as its basis University witch cult speculation. This was University concept that those persecuted as witches during University early modern period in Europe weren’t, as University persecutors had claimed, followers of Satanism, nor were they blameless people that confessed exam witchcraft under threat of torture, as had long been University old consensus, but rather that they were adherents of quizzes surviving pre Christian pagan faith. This theory were first expressed by University German Professor Karl Ernest Jarcke in 1828, before being recommended by German Franz Josef Mone after which University French historian Jules Michelet.