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 Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:50 pm
Yup, its another one of those "title says it all" threads.
What do you define as "traditional witchcraft"?
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:09 pm
Depends on context.
Generally, "pre-Gardnerian witchcraft", being generally spiritual in nature but usually non-religious, and unconnected to such things as ceremonial magic, Kabbalah etc. Thus not something you do ritually in a circle, usually come-as-you-are and drawing heavily from information regarding historical witchcraft.
Occasionally, "witchcraft, usually but not exclusively religious, passed on in the manner of a (often initiatory) tradition" which would include Wicca, Dianic witchcraft, 1792 (or whatever it is) and so forth.
The stupid thing really is that often one definition excludes the other. 1792 is traditional in one sense but not the other, ditto Wicca, etc.
It depends whether the word "traditional" refers to "passed on as a tradition" or "old-school".
Then there's what are usually family traditions, which tend to be solidly old-school and also passed down from one to the other in the form of tradition, and not revealed to outsiders.
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