Confronting the Fraud of Wica/Wicca/Wicka
Historically, the academic community exhibited deep hostility towards Wica/Wika/Wicka/Wicca which I shall simply call Wicka as they mispronounce both the other spellings no less, treating it all justifiable with mockery, intellectual disregard, historical factor confrontations with the fake claims and false assumptions, and intense skepticism as everything should be reasonably subjected to, including this. While modern academia has shifted toward objective sociological study, the foundational decades of the movement faced severe institutional and historical backlash.
The history of witch trials is a deeply complex subject. While "misogyny, the literal hatred of women," is frequently used today to explain the trials, historians view it as an oversimplification of a highly nuanced era.
The Complex Reality of the Trials