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faery
Wicca
Also
referred to as the fae, fey, feri, faerie, fairy, and fairie tradition.
Founded by Victor and Cora Anderson
in the mid-late 1950’s, when they were inspired to form their own tradition
after reading a book by Gerald
B. Gardner “Witchcraft Today”.
Anderson was responsible for writing most of the tradition’s rituals,
which he initially based on fairy folklore and beliefs, he is still universally
recognized as the Grand Master of the Faery Tradition.
In 1959, Victor initiated the late Gwydion Pendderwen, who then aged 13,
would later become a leading voice in the Faery Tradition.
An
old African priestess initiated Victor Anderson into Witchcraft in 1926, they
practiced a form of Witchcraft with Huna and African influences, and which was
primarily Dahomean-Haitian. Anderson
is now one of the last genuine Kahuna. Some
of these earlier influences he incorporated into the new Faery tradition.
Pendderwen after visiting with an Alex
Sanders coven in England, incorporated material from the Alexandrian Book
of Shadows. Today the tradition
has evolved and contains of a mixture of Green Wicca, Celtic and Druidic
practices, as well as modern Witchcraft.
The
Faery Tradition honors the Goddess and Her son, brother and lover (The Divine
Twins) as the primary creative forces in the universe.
The Gods are seen as real spirit beings like ourselves, and not merely
aspects of our psyche.
The tradition is an ecstatic tradition, rather than a fertility tradition
with emphasis on polytheism, practical magic, self-development and theurgy.
Strong emphasis is also placed on sensual experience and awareness,
including sexual mysticism, which is not limited to heterosexual expression.
This
is a mystery tradition of power, mystery, danger, ecstasy, and direct
communication with divinity. Most
initiates are in the arts and incorporate their own poetry, music and
invocations into rituals. The
Tradition is gender-equal, and all sexual orientations seem able to find a
niche. According to Francesca De
Grandis, founder of the 3rd Road branch: “Faerie power is not about a liturgy
but about one's body: a Fey shaman's blood and bones are made of stars and
Faerie dust. A legitimate branch of
Faerie is about a personal vision that is the Fey Folks' gift to a shaman”.
Initially small and secretive, many of the fundamentals of the tradition
have reached a large audience, mainly through the writings of Starhawk, the
tradition’s most famous initiate. Some
secret branches of the tradition remain but while only a few hundred initiates
can trace their lineage directly back to Victor Anderson; many thousands are
estimated to practice neo-Faery Traditions.
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Victor
H. Anderson (1917 - 2001)
He
was born May 21, 1917 to parents Hilbert and Frances in Clayton, New
Mexico. He was delivered by his father on their ranch. After several
years of meeting on the astral plane, Victor met his wife, Cora in
person in Bend, Oregon in 1944. Recognizing each other immediately, they
married three days later on May 3rd.
Victor
was an accomplished poet and the author of Thorns of the Blood Rose, a
modern classic book of Goddess poetry and liturgy first published in
1970, as well as numerous articles on the Feri (Faery) Tradition and
Huna. In 1975, he won the Clover International Poetry Competition Award.
He was a contributor to Witch Eye, Green Egg and Nemeton magazines.
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Victor
and Cora are well known as the Grand Masters of the Feri Faith of the Old
Religion. Victor was one of the last Kahuna and a Bokor. An extraordinary shaman
and priest, he was a member of the Harpy Coven in the 1930s in southern Oregon.
Victor and Cora initiated some of the most influential voices in contemporary
Paganism, including Starhawk and the late Gwydion Pendderwen.
An
accident during childhood left Victor almost totally without sight. As a result,
he attended a school for the blind in Oregon. Largely self-educated, Victor had
a profound love of physics, chemistry, literature and world spiritual
traditions. He was an avid reader, storyteller and brilliant linguist who spoke
numerous languages, among them Hawaiian, Spanish, Creole, Greek, Italian, Gaelic
and Dahomean.
He was gifted with a beautiful voice, loved to sing and was adept on the drum.
During his adult life, Victor earned his livelihood as a musician, playing the
accordion at public and private dances. He was a member of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, Alameda Lodge for 40 years.
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