THE COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSÉ: Warlocks, Witches and Politics
THE COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSÉ:
Warlocks, Witches and Politics
Ever hear or get told this?
“A real warlock or witch can’t support MAGA or capitalism”?
The vast majority of modern witch-cult folklore is predicated on flawed and misleading evidence compiled by Margaret Murray in her 1921 book, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. Murray’s extensive use of ellipses allowed her to selectively curate primary sources from witch trials to support her arguments while systematically excluding more fantastical accounts—specifically testimony regarding sexual encounters with the devil, infanticide, and flight—to instead force-fit a narrative of "nature worship" and prehistorical continuity. These "confessions" were extracted through the coercive, horrific methods of the institutional Church, frequently via leading questions. The primary source documentation of the medieval hunts is, therefore, largely composed of these coerced, pseudo-confessional narratives.
While professional historians have distanced themselves from Murray, her fabricated histories live on in popular culture. As Norman Cohn demonstrated in Europe's Inner Demons (1975), specifically in the chapter "The Society of Witches that Never Was," Murray’s arguments are academically unsound and have been thoroughly eviscerated. Despite this, contemporary phenomena—such as witch-themed parades, covens, and "witch and warlock liberation" movements—are predicated on these imaginative falsifications.
I. THE ARCHITECT: The Life and Deceptions of Gerald Gardner
Gerald Gardner’s life—from his time in Malaya, where he engaged in secret, unauthorized archaeological digs, to his later obsession with the occult—reveals a man fascinated by local folklore, not an uncoverer of ancient tradition.
Chronology of Fabrication
1931: Retired from Freemasonry for a second time to focus on folk magic and weapons.
1937: Obtained a fraudulent Ph.D. from the Meta Collegiate Extension of the National Electronic Institute—a known diploma mill—and began styling himself “Dr. Gardner,” despite academic recognition of its invalidity.
1939-1940: Relocated to Highcliffe-on-Sea, joined the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, and claimed initiation into the New Forest Coven by Dorothy Clutterbuck. Researchers have determined that the New Forest Coven, if it existed at all, was likely formed in the mid-1930s based on Murray’s writings, folk-magic, and written sources, rather than any ancient survival.
1940: Gardner fabricated the "Operation Cone-of-Power," claiming a "Great Circle" prevented a Nazi invasion. He asserted the ritual killed several older, frailer witches.
1947: Met Aleister Crowley, joined the O.T.O., and claimed to be the head of the organization in Europe after Crowley’s death, though this was never recognized by the order's leadership and using the Book of the Law from initiation into Thelema for much of the catch terms used now.
1949: Authored High Magic’s Aid, a work of fiction featuring ceremonial magic based on the Key of Solomon. Behind the scenes, he began gathering "Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical," the template for the Book of Shadows. A term he picked up from an article in a New Age periodical called "The Occult Observer."
1951: Moved to the Isle of Man to work at Cecil Williamson’s Folk-lore Centre. In 1954, he purchased the museum and renamed it The Museum of Magic and Witchcraft, styling himself the "resident witch and warlock."
1954: Published Witchcraft Today, featuring a preface by Margaret Murray, endorsing the "ancient cult" theory and claiming the Knights Templar were initiates of the Craft.
The Bricket Wood Coven and the Valiente Split Founded in 1946, the Bricket Wood Coven became the nexus of Gardner's myth-making.
Doreen Valiente: Initiated in 1953, she became High Priestess and assisted Gardner in revising the Book of Shadows, deliberately excising Crowley’s influence to hide the Craft's ceremonial origins and perpetuate the "Old Religion" narrative.
The Conflict: In the mid-1950s, coven members confronted Gardner over his hunger for publicity. In response, he formulated "The Wiccan Laws" to maintain control. When Valiente and the original members left in 1957, Gardner blocked their use of the "witch’s cottage" at Fiveacres by inventing an "ancient lore" requiring a 25-mile distance between covens—a clear act of control-freakery.
The Wheel of the Year: In 1958, while Gardner was on the Isle of Man, the coven experimented with circle dancing and the celebration of equinoxes and solstices. Gardner gave retroactive approval, creating what is now the Wica Wheel of the Year.
The New Forest Coven Members: An Assessment
Dorothy Clutterbuck: An Anglican Christian and Salvation Army member who never identified as a witch. Her private diaries contained nature poetry common to the era.
Edith Woodford-Grimes: A teacher of elocution and drama. She denied involvement in witchcraft when approached for verification in 1954.
Ernest & Susie Mason: Enthusiasts of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, Co-Freemasonry, and Theosophy.
Rosamund Sabine: A former member of the Golden Dawn who reportedly believed she was the reincarnation of a witch after reading Murray.
Katherine Oldmeadow: A children’s author whose school stories involved secret societies and rituals.
II. LINGUISTIC DECEPTION: The "Wica," "Warlock," and "Witch" Fallacy
Gardner incorrectly branded his community as the Wica (single 'c'), deriving it from a misunderstanding of the Scottish wyce (wise) and wycan (wise one). He conflated these with the Old English wicce (pronounced "witch").
The Warlock Evidence (The True Etymology): Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755, p. 2243) confirms: “Warlock, in Scotland is applied to a man whom the vulgar suppose to be conversant with spirits, As a woman who carries on the same commerce is called a witch.” Historically, the term is far more nuanced. It derives from the roots wer (man), vir (man in Latin), and lokk/loc (to fasten/bind). It fundamentally denotes a man acting as a magistrate, a binder of oaths, or an exorcist—warlogan—someone who possesses the authority to fasten or bind spiritual forces. It is not, and never was, a mere synonym for a male witch in the sense that the modern occult community uses it; it describes a specific, masculine role of binding and governance.
The Wicce/Wiccan Evidence: Wicce and its elder form Wiccean were entirely feminine, derived from the root wikk/wekk (to speak), used as a gloss for female oracles or mediums. The spelling "Wicca" to name the religion is a 1960s-80s feminist invention, not a historical reality.
III. PERSONAL REFLECTION
I discovered "Wicca" back in 1988 when it became a local buzz and some occult and new age shops started opening up in the city I lived in, which perked my curiosity and started to become an obsession mostly among the girls and women I knew and some gay men. I didn’t know how to distinguish between witchcraft as a practice, neopaganism as polytheism, and Wicca as a religion. I had previous knowledge of things in areas of folklore and mythology far removed from all that as it was often a subject of my illustrative arts requested by others and my own desire to know the subject of the art inside and out so I knew how to properly present and where I could stylize the content in proper context.
Of course, I had a predominately Christian upbringing and actually dug in deep to the subject matter and history thereof. By 1985, at the age of 12, I was thoroughly unimpressed with it all including the side research I did into Judaism, Islam, and many other such things, not because of some mistreatment by believers, as is the default excuse of so-called pagans, but because a lot was obviously reworked, remade and misrepresented its own content and histories.
I was effectively an atheist, though more agnostic. I also had a real respect, however, for diverse world cultures even though I simply could not and would not pretend to have some sort of connection with them.
To be clear I am no longer an atheist and hold a reasonable amount of agnostic skepticism as a filter leaning more towards the theitix side of things based on what is known, not as a filler for what is not.
But I was flooded with all sorts of misinformation from the owners of those shops who were often part of and identified with the New Age and Neo-Pagan communities, and having seen the movie Dragnet in 1987, just a year before the first book I was handed on it called Wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner, with a yogurt light pinkish purple colored base and an androgynous looking person on the cover apparently using some kind of incense thing, was when I slapped my forehead in annoyance with the things being claimed and stated in there.
I had already encountered previous the subject matter of such as Freemasonry and the Rosicrucian orders like AMORC, and heard of the O.B.O.D., and even the whole Kabbalah thing, it was painfully obvious the sheer depth of the nonsense it played into.
It immediately reminded me of the acronym from the movie Dragnet for P.A.G.A.N. as "People Against Goodness And Normalcy." Reading all that crap made all that painfully obvious.
It was also from that source the whole Warlock/Witch bit was presented as an issue before anyone I knew ever thought it was an issue. Warlocks were men, Witches were women, that was how it had always been in Church, in folklore, even in a old TV show called Bewitched, though obviously an embellished supernatural fantasy. The content was already there.
And with the whole Satanic panic crap everyone knew Warlock and Witch was also used by the so called Church of Satan. And though not impressed with him either, at least he admitted in his own terms he was a "Bullshitter:" and of course it was made a big deal about his death October 29, 1997, just 2 days before Halloween (which was idiotic all the stuff spun about all that).
And no I was not and still not a fan of Satanism that I consider an empty and spiritually dead, intellectually deficient path of outcasts and retards. All the same I had all my main information including correct etymology by 1992 and part of that was because of some idiot religious nut street preacher took a look at me and my manner of clothing at the time, shouted I was a Warlock and the girls around me who I didn't even know were my "whore bitch witches."
I guess he really didn't like the cross necklace I had that was composed of 11 skulls in a cross form which I connected to a chain with skull shaped links which I reconnected so the aligned evenly in polarity around my neck instead of a single directional loop.
Or maybe it was the hat I was wearing with the small horns on it and the skull decoration on the front of the hat band. Either way that was not, as I said, what caused me to give up on Christianity and the like as previously stated.
I flicked my cigarette to the side and was pissed off at this dude I didn't even know coming at me like that, snapped back "yeah? and what are you going to do about it? You don't even know what it really means, idiot!" He shouted some prayers and was so over the top dramatic even the transit cops near by arrested him for harassment and trying to excite a riot. (I miss those days when the law actually did its job).
Unfortunately there were other wackos around and some started asking me to "teach them." I told them go to the library not the book stores. In any case all these years later, I am still showing people facts and watching them becoming more and more surprised and with current AI now, access to such sources are interrupted and the results are even shittier than when it was all just basic search engines.
The point is, it was then I adopted the title, said fuck it, and looked into it deeper. Eventually certain things occurred prior to all that that made me lean more agnostic than a staunch atheist, and neither the sciences or religion, and certainly not the "occult" proved any good for explanation of those situations.
At that time I was also really close friends with several First nation people, learned a lot from them but have out of real respect, not hijacked or tried to claim right to engage in those traditional practices when I eventually created Druwayu.
They also had no issues when I accepted the title of Warlock. But by 2003, suddenly it was a problem, especially with all the little girl twats who started getting sucked into all the feminist occultism that saturated all that crap. Most grew out of it, the rest didn't.
The Universality Fallacy Jungian/Theosophical idea that all religions are universal archetypes is part of what was used by such so called "scholars" to invent "Shamanism" or Same-ism based on factually shoddy scholarship and blind assumptions and thrown around for a long time as yet another catch all claim slapped on everything.
Oh, yes, then there was the whole bullshit of the "dying-and-rising god" myth, the "Celtic Tree Calendar" (invented by Robert Graves), and the "Oak and Holly King" (also Graves' fabrication). James Frazer (in The Golden Bough) invented the "dying-and-rising god" concept; and Robert Graves invented the "birthwoods" and "tree calendar."
Likely this was inspired from the bullshit "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors". It was written by American author and spiritualist Kersey Graves and was first published in 1875. (No they are not related).
Kersey Graves added the "s" to his last name later in life when publishing his books but his family belonged to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The breakdown: Watching the house of cards collapse was painful. Realizing Wicca is a modern religion, less than 100 years old, built on poor scholarship is not enough. "Witchcraft" is a divisive term for folk magic (which is often Christian rather than any evidence of pre-Pagan anything) and no one ever actually called themselves heathen or pagan.
To make matters worse is when the same morons take things like the "trials" and focus on accused witches, ignore men accused of being warlocks, ignore actual historic source citations for both, and seek to redeem one title while continuing to smear on the other is among the many fictions and all around bullshit involved.
That and the very same cannot and will not agree on much of anything while condemning others of so called appropriation while being the worse offenders in their hypocrisy.
IV. THE MODERN REALITY: Cosplay, Politics, and Gatekeeping
Wicca is an aesthetic—a way of applying a label to personal feelings—rather than a consistent religion. Most people get into it in high school, predominantly girls and gay boys. It pretends to be apolitical, but it is dominated by leftist, progressive ideologies that demand total ideological conformity.
Oppression as Progress If they were truly about progress, they would admit their origins in watered-down occultism at the hands of people who never did their homework. Instead, they cling to fabricated antiquity to hide that their "religion" began as an excuse for an old man (Gardner) to facilitate an extramarital affair.
The "Wiccan" Narcissists They pronounce the terminology wrong, claim the title of "Wiccan" without initiation, and get furious when corrected. These are the people most likely to attempt "love potions" or "cursing," while others recite "an it harm none" as a vacuous mantra.
Historical Hijacking No one owns the words "Witch" or "Warlock." Gardner’s "Wica" is a misspelling. Historically, Warlock meant a magistrate or exorcist, and Wicce was an ancient feminine term for a speaker/oracle.
V. THE POLITICAL FRAUD
The assertion that "a real witch or warlock can’t support MAGA or capitalism" is ideological gatekeeping dressed up as spiritual elitism.
Practices, Not Politics: Witchery and Warlockery are spiritual disciplines of sovereignty. They predate every modern political ideology. Claiming spiritual legitimacy hinges on socialist or Marxist economic purity is spiritual fraud.
Capitalism and the Craft: Capitalism is a system of exchange. Historically, practitioners bartered, charged, or received gifts for their services. To call this "selling out" is to ignore the survivalist reality of every historical culture.
Authenticity vs. Inquisitors: The "MAGA Warlock or Witch" has emerged as a necessary rejection of the totalitarian gatekeeping that plagues the modern scene. These practitioners align with conservative values, ecological stewardship, and national sovereignty. The gatekeepers who threaten violence against those who disagree are not defending the Craft—they are roleplaying as inquisitors. The Craft does not need a bureaucracy or a political party to grant it legitimacy. Stop playing with the cosplay of myth-makers and reclaim the sovereignty of the Craft on firm, historical ground.
VI. THE W.I.T.C.H. PHENOMENON
The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.)—formed in 1968—represents the pinnacle of the "feminist occultism" crossover.
It was never a spiritual movement; it was a political activist group that used the aesthetic of the "witch" to perform guerrilla theater.
They did not care about magic, lineage, or history—they cared about disruption and political agitation.
They hijacked the title of "witch" to cloak their radical political activism in a pseudo-spiritual mystery.
This set the precedent for the modern "political witch" who thinks wearing a hat and casting a "hex" on a politician constitutes real practice.
It turned the witch from a historical archetype into a political prop for the Left and the warlock as the big bad patriarchy.
VII. MAINSTREAM MEDIA GARBAGE
One of the biggest bullshit lines that continues to favor the feminist crap includes articles from mainstream media outlets that state things like...
"Beyond the fantastical depictions, however, the concept of the coven can be analyzed through the lens of political theory as a site of unique power dynamics, autonomy, and collective resistance. A witches’ coven, as a communal entity, embodies an alternative form of organization that challenges mainstream socio-political structures, representing both marginalized identities and potent subversion against dominant systems."
Often these articles will say some sort of generic slop like "Power within a coven diverges significantly from traditional hierarchical structures, which are often centralized and rely on authority figures."
Traditional craft by whose standards? This implies there has always been a specific or prior core monotonic power structure and that simply is not the reality. They clearly have not done real homework and produce garbage through AI prompts and narrative bubbles. So let’s address the realities these morons constantly miss the mark on.
🔥 1. Witchcraft and Warlockery Are Practices, Not Politics: Witchery and Warlockery are spiritual disciplines rooted in personal sovereignty, ancestral tradition, and metaphysical exploration. They are not political parties. They predate capitalism, socialism, communism, and every modern ideology. To claim that your spiritual legitimacy hinges on your economic or political stance is to misunderstand the entire foundation of magical practice.
🧠 2. Magical Identity Is Not Owned by the Left (or the right): The idea that only leftist, anti-capitalist, or anti-MAGA individuals can be “real” witches or warlocks is a modern myth pushed by people who confuse spiritual authenticity with ideological purity. Magic is not a progressive monopoly. It belongs to anyone who practices it with discipline, intention, and respect for its lineage.
🧭 3. Capitalism Is Not Inherently Anti-Magic: Capitalism is a system of voluntary exchange. It can be used to exploit—or to empower. Many witches and warlocks run businesses, sell their crafts, teach their arts, and support themselves through trade. That’s not “selling out”—that’s survival, sovereignty, and self-sufficiency. If you think capitalism is incompatible with magic, you’re ignoring centuries of magical practitioners who sold potions, readings, and protective charms in every village and city across the globe.
🗽 4. MAGA Is a Political Movement, Not a Spiritual Ban: Supporting MAGA may reflect someone’s views on national sovereignty, border control, economic policy, or cultural preservation. You can disagree with those views—but you don’t get to declare someone spiritually invalid because of them. That’s authoritarianism masquerading as spiritual wisdom.
⚔️ 5. Gatekeeping Is the Real Fraud: The moment someone says “a real witch or warlock can’t support (X),” they’ve abandoned the path of magic and embraced ideological policing. That’s not spiritual leadership—it’s authoritarian mimicry dressed in robes and incense.
The Craft is about personal development, spiritual power, and not surrendering it to group-think or purity tests.
And let’s be clear: the gatekeepers who spew this nonsense are the ones invoking terms like “heresy” and “blasphemy”—because they’re not practicing Witchery or Warlockery.
They’re roleplaying as inquisitors. Real practitioners don’t need to enforce orthodoxy. They walk their paths, may form new ones, or none at all. Historically, witches and warlocks weren’t ideological martyrs—they were pragmatic, sovereign, and often deeply entwined with their communities (as in people whom they lived among, not out in some abandoned shack as Hollywood often presents it).
Ancient records across cultures show practitioners receiving payment, gifts, and offerings for their services. Whether it was healing, protection, divination, or curse-breaking (or causing), they operated within economic systems—sometimes bartering, sometimes charging, sometimes being honored with donations.
That’s not corruption.
That’s survival.
That’s respect.
To claim that capitalism or political affiliation invalidates someone’s magical identity is not just historically ignorant—it’s spiritually fraudulent. It erases centuries of lived practice and replaces it with modern ideological cosplay.
⚔️ 6. No One Owns the Words/Titles “Witch” or “Warlock”: (Not even us even though we made far more effort to extract the real origins of both and a more concise meaning of the words themselves). One of the most persistent modern myths is the idea that a single religious movement—often Wicca or its offshoots—has the authority to define who may call themselves a witch or a warlock.
That claim collapses the moment you compare it to actual history. Witchery and Warlockery existed long before "Wicca/Wica" (which they pronounce wrong anyways) Occult group from England was founded in the mid‑20th century, and they have appeared in various ways throughout several European cultures, languages (long before being loaned elsewhere), as titles and identities of specific practices across the world with wildly different beliefs, roles, and methods of achieving or striving for specific outcomes.
When someone insists that only their tradition gets to define these titles, and that any evidence to the error of "long held assumptions" is somehow "heretical," what they’re really doing is trying to rewrite history to justify themselves in an act of confirmation biases.
It’s not preservation—it’s true appropriation, and better defined, linguistic and cultural hijacking.
It’s the attempt to turn a diverse, ancient, cross‑cultural set of practices into a single, modern, self‑referential identity system where definitions change based on personal preference or whatever someone “feels” the word should mean today.
That's not research. It's willful ignorance reinforced by cheap arrogance. Nothing truly works that way. Warlockery and Witchery have always been plural, adaptive, and rooted in lived practice—not in trend cycles, and not in the whims of any one group.
No tradition, especially one less than a century old (from the time of this post), gets to retroactively claim ownership over titles that existed for hundreds or thousands of years before it.
And no one gets to erase the practitioners who came before them simply because those practitioners don’t fit their preferred present narrative.
Additionally, a title is earned through practice, discipline, and identity—not granted by a modern spiritual bureaucracy. And in that, Druwayu honors such things because it retains this requirement.
🧙♂️ Final Word
The craft, regardless if you go ahead and call it something else or use various spellings for "magic" or something else, is not a purity test. It’s a path of research and practice, of choices and consequences.
Anyone walking it with discipline, intention, and respect is valid—regardless of how they vote or what economic system they navigate; or frankly whatever the dominate religion happens to be or the specific terms native to their own tongues that often get (erroneously) transliterated as warlocks or witches.
If someone tries to revoke your spiritual identity because of your politics, they’re not defending the craft, magic or whatever.
They’re abusing it and others and making it little more than a cheap knock off novelty of parlor tricks and bullshit.
