The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft”

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" The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft” "
Ethan Doyle White

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064740
Doc. No	:	LA108369
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01802002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ethan Doyle White
Title & Author	:	The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft” [Article]\ Ethan Doyle White
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Aries
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	18/2
Page No	:	188–216
Abstract	:	Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its historical development and its contemporary usages to illustrate how it represents a form of rhetorical self-identification adopted by occultists seeking to retain the label of “Witchcraft” while evading associations with “Wicca” and at the same time functioning as a legitimation strategy by foregrounding the inheritance of “tradition”. Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its historical development and its contemporary usages to illustrate how it represents a form of rhetorical self-identification adopted by occultists seeking to retain the label of “Witchcraft” while evading associations with “Wicca” and at the same time functioning as a legitimation strategy by foregrounding the inheritance of “tradition”.
Descriptor	:	folk magic
Descriptor	:	legitimacy
Descriptor	:	Luciferianism
Descriptor	:	occultism
Descriptor	:	Paganism
Descriptor	:	Traditional Witchcraft
Descriptor	:	Wicca
Descriptor	:	Witchcraft
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01802002‬