Wicca Old and New: Gardnerian Craft in Today's World

In this lecture, Christina Oakley Harrington introduces some of the core concepts of Gardnerian witchcraft, a closed religious tradition which is often a hot topic in pagan and occult circles. With examples and anecdotes, she looks at the central ideas, often rarely discussed, that are held by those in this British-based, lineaged witchcraft family. She looks at outsiders' beliefs, too, and how they came to arise, and how they reveal much about the evolving concepts inhabiting that alluring word, 'witch'.

Christina Oakley Harrington is the founder-director of Treadwells of London. She has been involved with the pagan communities in the UK and US since the 1980s; she is both a priestess in the Gardnerian Craft and a historical researcher in the field.