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Gerald Brosseau Gardner
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Es la figura con la que se asocia la aparición pública de la brujería pagana moderna, y de quien procede casi todo lo que sobre ella se sabía de primera mano. El relato fundacional se publicó en 1960, en una biografía suya «Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019) · p. 260» que Hutton describe como acreditada a un tercero, escrita por otro y «effectively autobiographical» «Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019) · p. 261», porque toda su información venía de él.
Gerald Gardner · Gardner · Scire
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Works attributed to this actor
with the type of each attributionGardner — The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959) [DECLARED]
Gardner — Witchcraft Today (1954) [DECLARED]
About the author
10 entries — what others say about them«The foundation story of modern pagan witchcraft was first published in 1960, in the biography of the person most prominently associated with its appearance, Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884» — la fecha en que se publica el relato fundacional y las de su protagonista.
«The book was formally credited to Jack Bracelin, and written, in reality, by a wellknown author on Sufiism, Idries Shah; but as Gardner himself was the source of virtually all its information, it is effectively autobiographical» — la autoría de esa biografía: acreditada a Bracelin, escrita por Idries Shah, y de hecho autobiográfica porque toda su información viene de Gardner.
«In 1946, related Gardner, he visited Aleister Crowley and was initiated into the latter’s Ordo Templi Orientis, though he thought Crowley ‘a charming charlatan» — el paso por la O.T.O., en el propio relato de Gardner, con el juicio que hace de Crowley.
«Crowley died while Gardner was in America, and many people there regarded Gerald himself as the obvious new leader for the order; but he did not want the job» — y lo que declinó a la muerte de Crowley.
«In 1951 the repeal of the Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts allowed witches to advertise their existence without fear of prosecution, and Gardner at once began to give press interviews to do so» — la derogación de 1951 como condición de posibilidad de su publicidad.
«Doreen Valiente exposed these as bogus,3 and it is noteworthy that by assuming them Gardner stood in a long tradition of leading figures in English occultism, who seem frequently to have felt the need to claim titles of honour to reflect a status in the world at large which they considered to be truly due to th» — los títulos que Valiente destapó como falsos, y el patrón en que Hutton los inscribe.
«In two respects, however, the book emphasizes Gardner’s distinction from the norm of colonial society» — cómo lo distingue de su medio colonial.
«Gerald Gardner was a retired Civil Servant, and his partner, a lady whose witch name was Dafo, was a schoolteacher; so it is evidently their coven that Mr Williamson was referring to» — quién era, en la voz de quien trabajó con él.
«it was Mr Williamson who put up the memorial to the victims of the great witch persecutions, and it was from him that Gerald Gardner subsequently purchased the museum and its contents, although Gardner added his own collection to them» — la procedencia del museo, que Valiente corrige.
«Witchcraft doesn’t pay for broken windows’, knew what she was talking about» — la razón que le dieron para no publicitar el aquelarre.