Raymond Buckland Birthday

Raymond Buckland (born 31 August 1934), whose craft name is Ro bat, is an English American writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult , and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he is a High Priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax traditions.
According to his writte n works, primarily Witchcraft from the Inside, published in 1971, he was the first person in the United States to openly admit to being a practitio ner of Wicca, and he introduced the lineage of Gardnerian Wicca to the Uni ted States in 1964, after having been initiated by Monique Wilson in Brita in the previous year. He later formed his own tradition dubbed Seax-Wica wh ich focuses on the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon paganism.