Primarily it was Gerald Gardner, there is such a dispute about this. In the background alittle bit before him was Margeret Murray among others and Gardner got his ideas from everywhere in the occult, but he brought them into the public eye with his many books. There is tons of this online, hope this helps though!
Manute Bol is credited with inventing/popularizing the phrase "my bad"
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Dark shirts with dark ties. :-)
For entertainment, and for people to keep fit...
In a way both are modern. But Wicca is more modern overall - since it is a branch of witchcraft. To better explain - All Wiccans are Witches, but not all Witches are Wiccan. Paganism is the oldest religion involving witchcraft.
Wicca and Neo-Pagan is similar yes. I don't understand your percent 2 those.
While Wicca claims to have ancient roots, modern Wicca was invented by Gerald Gardner in 1954 so it would be 60 years old this year (2014).
Gustav Jäger is credited with discovering and popularizing the concept of compression clothing in the late 19th century. His research into the benefits of compression garments for improving blood circulation and athletic performance laid the foundation for the development of modern compression wear.
No, Wicca has no connection at all with native American beliefs. It is a modern pagan religion developed in England in the early 1900s.
The concept of fractals can be traced back to mathematicians Benoit Mandelbrot and Georg Cantor. Mandelbrot is often credited with popularizing the term "fractal" and demonstrating their applications in various fields.
There is some debate about whether Wicca is a new religion or one of the oldest. Certainly Goddess centered worship has perhaps existed since before recorded history, but the modern Wicca movement was started when Gerald Gardner, known as the father of Wicca, published Witchcraft Today in 1954.
Many Wiccans regard their modern faith as the restoration of a nature-based spiritual tradition that reaches back through the earliest ages of pre-history. In the historical sense, the modern practice of Wicca began with Gerald Gardner in Britain in the 1930s, or, according to some claims, in the 1920s. Many different groups, schools and forms of Wicca branched off from that original group very quickly. Gardnerian Wicca and the related Alexandrian Wicca, continue to thrive today. Some feminist and other forms of Wicca now have very little in common with the Gardnerian tradition.