Seax-Wica

Seax-Wica
The founding text of the Seax tradition was The Tree (1974).
AbbreviationSW
TypeSyncretic Wicca
OrientationAnglo-Saxon paganism inspired
ScriptureThe Tree: Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft
GovernancePriesthood
RegionUnited States
FounderRaymond Buckland
Origin1973
United States

Seax-Wica, or sometimes Seax Witchcraft, is a tradition of neopagan practice blending aspects of Wicca with the iconography of Anglo-Saxon paganism, while not seeking to reconstruct the early mediaeval religion itself.[1]

The tradition was founded in 1973 by Raymond Buckland, an English-born high priest of Gardnerian Wicca who had recently moved to the United States. His 1974 book The Tree was written as a definitive guide to Seax-Wica, and subsequently republished in 2005 as Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft.

The tradition primarily honours two principal deities: Woden and Freya, representations of the Wiccan deities the Horned God and the Mother Goddess. The tradition uses ceremonial tools such as the spear and runes.

  1. ^ Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft, ISBN 1-57863-328-1, p. xi.