A person who has begun learning something. Often a novice has no previous experience with what they are learning. A complete beginner. In some Wiccan traditions a type of “degree” wherein a person can start learning about Wicca from a coven without actually being initiated. This training is also known as being in the “Outer Court.”
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...