Concise Index to the Gardnerian Family of Craft Traditions
Posted 30 April 2003
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1949 to 1951 (to be confirmed) Gerald Gardner's original working group.
At this stage the Tradition had not yet been named (the name 'Gardnerian'
was originally coined by breakaway groups which wished to distance themselves
from the original coven and its leadership.)
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1954 Gardnerian Craft sensu stricto (in Britain)
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1959 Gardnerian Craft (in Canada)
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1961 Gardnerian Craft (in Lebanon)
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1962 Gardnerian Craft (in Israel)
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1963 Gardnerian Craft (in America)
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ca. 1967 Wica (in Kentucky and then elsewhere)
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1974? Rhean Tradition
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1980s Unicorn Tradition (crossed English Gardnerian in ?late 1980s)
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1988? Unicorn Tradition (in Germany)
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1969 Chicago Pagan Way (an Outer Court group, from which numerous Witchcraft
traditions developed)
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1969 American / Mohsian Tradition
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1985 New Albion Tradition
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1970 Philadelphia Pagan Way (as is the case with Chicago, originally intended
as an Outer Court group)
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1975 Minoan Brotherhood
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1982 Minoan Sisterhood
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1991 Protean Tradition
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1994? Cornfield Tradition
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1997 Dragon's Weave
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1991 California Gardnerian (CalGard) Witchcraft
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1996 Oldenwilde Traditional Witchcraft
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1963 Alexandrian Witchcraft (in Britain)
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1982? Gardnerian Craft (in the Netherlands)
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ca. 1983 Gardnerian Craft (in Australia)
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1988 Gardnerian Craft (in Germany)
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1990 Gardnerian Craft (in Norway)
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1991? Gardnerian Craft (in Sweden)
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1994 Gardnerian Craft (in Austria)
Explanatory notes
This is a incomplete 'site index' of some lineal offshoots
of the Gardnerian Tradition, where an unbroken chain of initiatory succession
is documented in records accessible to the compilers of the index and its
entries. For full Beaufort Index go to http://www.gardnerian.com
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