Meaning of WitchcraftOften called the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner's life and works were ground breaking in opening the door for the modern revival of Wicca and neo paganism. The Meaning of Witchcraft (originally published in 1959) was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. 'The foundation of magical beliefs,' Gardner wrote, 'of which witchcraft is a form, is that unseen Powers exist, and that by performing the