Patricia Crowther (Wiccan)
Patricia Crowther ( born October 14, 1924 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is a prevalent since the 1960s, an advocate of Wicca as a witch and high priestess. She has also written several books, lectures, and the first radio series hosted on witchcraft. It was introduced by Gerald Brousseau Gardner into witchcraft to be his spiritual heir, " ' to promote the Renaissance, the Old Religion and to inform mankind " the. For this purpose, they had established throughout the United Kingdom thriving Wiccan coven.
Youth and Education
Patricia Dawson was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Your great-grandmother was from Brittany and was a Kräuterkennerin and clairvoyant who predicted the future. Your grandmother Elizabeth ( Tizzy ) Machon ( maiden name) was a very small woman, whose name " Fee " means. The Dawson family lived next door to a Palmistin, Madame Melba, who had predicted that Patricia would gain great psychic powers. In her childhood, she had symbolically first contacts with the world of fairies and magic, as to a child's birthday party she was chosen to play the Mondfee and to put on an illuminated crescent ( the goddess with crescent is often symbolically the goddess Diana ). As a birthday gift, she received a gold snake bracelet as a symbol of wisdom, life and rebirth. She also appeared as Robin Hood and starred in a revue ( Legend of the Moon Goddess) with.
When she was 30 years old, led a hypnotist Patricia in her previous life back, as a witch Polly, 66 years old in 1670. As a witch Polly she revealed that she and in a hut with a cat, a frog, a goat, a Henne had lived and spells for strange people wrote, but she could not stand. She has under hypnosis several spells that all rhymed, sung and given instructions for use, even though they themselves as Patricia had no knowledge of such sayings. Several experts have confirmed the authenticity of the old sayings. For further hypnosis she was returned to another former life as a priestess of a powerful goddess. Her parents were able to train in singing, dancing and acting, she traveled throughout the United Kingdom. When they played at a theater in Birmingham in 1954, told her a fortune-teller that she would meet her future husband in two years named Arnold over the sea, which at the time seemed completely fantastic and impossible for them. However, there arose in the summer of 1956 that she was engaged on the Isle of Wight and there Arnold Crowther ( 1909-1974 ) came to know, who starred as a magician and ventriloquist in the same show. When he discovered her interest in witchcraft, he introduced her to his personal friend Gerald Gardner. A few years before, Gardner prophesied to him that he would meet a woman with faery hair, which should introduce him into witchcraft.
Compounds with Wicca from 1960
After several meetings with Gardner that she has introduced into witchcraft on June 6, 1960. The Initiation took place in the private rooms of magic Gardner, the top floor of a barn adjacent to his home in Castletown on the Isle of Man, instead. Patricia has subsequently initiated Arnold. From Gardner received ritual tools and jewelry, especially a coral necklace presented. During the rite Patricia had a profound and powerful trance experience. She saw herself as a born-again Priestess of the Moon Mysteries, inaugurated by howling, naked women that ran through her spread legs. On November 8, 1960 Patricia and Arnold were in a private ceremony, which was led by Gardner, married. All persons were standing naked in a circle and held hands. The next day, the state ceremony took place. After a short time took the press out the exceptional circumstances of the wedding and has published extensively about it.
Establishment of the Sheffield Coven
The Crowthers settled in Sheffield. On October 11, 1961 both received initiation into the Second Degree and Patricia was appointed to the High Priestess on October 14. The media eagerly sought contact with Patricia. When she was asked if she would meet with other people who would be interested in witchcraft, she said yes. The news headline of the overzealous reporter was then: " Witch seeks recruits for Coven ," which generated a lot of inquiries. The Crowthers initiated the first member of her coven Sheffield in December 1961, others followed over time. By the way, they learned more from Gardner. Also, an old woman named Jean, who had seen it on TV, Patricia, got in touch with her , and consecrated it in a supposedly 300 year old mystery of an ancient tradition.
Media work
The Crowther gave many interviews and facilitated discussions in the understanding of witchcraft. They wrote two books The Witches Speak (1965, 1976) and The Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft (1974). For Radio Sheffield, they produced the first radio series in the UK on witchcraft, A Spell of Witchcraft, the first time was on January 7, 1971 broadcast. They wrote ritual incantations, wraith, seasonal rituals, music and poems on the subject of witchcraft. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Prediction, Gnostica, New Dimensions and The Lamp of Thoth. Patricia also frequently appears as a guest on radio shows and television shows, and tries to dispel misconceptions about the, Old Religion ' and the modern witchcraft and to strengthen the equality of women. In 1978, she acted as Wiccan representative to the United Kingdom at an international conference in Barcelona. In addition to her activities she witches still occurs career as a singer, magician and puppeteer.