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A High Priestess, or a woman she has delegated, can cast a circle.
WORSHIP: Wiccans usually worship as a group. Individual worship is possible, but not
generally practiced. Worship takes place in a private location in which a circle can be
drawn according to prescribed ritual formulas. Covens meet either weekly or bi-weekly
(at the full and new moon), always in the evening. Worship in some (but not all) groups
occurs in the nude.
Minimum items for worship include an athame (ritual knife), a bowl of water, a censer
with incense, salt, an altar and 6 candles in candlesticks. A sword and pentacle (talisman)
are optional. All tools must be ritually consecrated by a High Priestess.
DIETARY LAWS OR RESTRICTIONS: None
FUNERAL AND BURIAL REQUIREMENTS: None. Recognition of the death of a
coven member takes place in the coven, apart from the "body" of the deceased. Ritual
tools or material found among the remains of the deceased should be immediately
returned to members of the coven. It is not necessary for a priest or priestess to be
present at the time of death.
MEDICAL TREATMENT: No restrictions, but Wiccans may want co-religionists to do
healing rituals in the hospital in tandem with medical treatment. So members of patient's
Circle should be permitted ICU visits as though they were immediate family.
OTHER: With respect to attitude toward service in the armed forces, members include
the full range from career military personnel to conscientious objectors.
Wicca is open toward other faiths, recognizing that the Principles of the Great Mother
appears in a great many faiths under various names and symbolisms. Because of the
persecutions of past years, Wiccans take a guarded relation to groups which claim to
possess "The Truth" or to be the "Only Way." Wicca is only one path among many, and
is not for everyone. Members are encouraged to learn about all faiths, and are permitted
to attend services of other faiths, should they desire to do so.
GENERAL SOURCE BOOKS:
Margot Adler. Drawing Down the Moon. Boston: Beacon Press, 2nd, ed., 1986. 595pp.
Janet and Stewart Farrar. Eight Sabbats for Witches. London: Robert Hale, 1981. 192pp.
The Witches' Way. London: Robert Hale, 1984. 349pp.
The Witches' Goddess. Custer,WA: Phoenix Publishing,1987. 319pp.
The Witches' God. Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1989. 278pp.
ADDRESS: No central address. Wiccan worship groups, called covens, are essentially
autonomous. Many, but far from all, have affiliated with:
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