Gerald Gardner Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
June 13, 1884 – February, 12, 1964.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner , also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the Contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

Gerald Gardner
Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.

Gerald Gardner

The witches do not know the origin of their cult.

Gerald Gardner
- Cult
- Origin
- Witches
Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.

Gerald Gardner
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. I would not want to hurt their feelings. They have secrets which to them are sacred. They have good reason for their secrecy.

Gerald Gardner
- Friends
- Secrecy
- Witches
Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about.

Gerald Gardner
- Friends
- Trusted
- Bothered