Wicca Trivia
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107 free Wicca trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Wicca is the only fully formed religion England has given the world, in Ronald Hutton's phrase, and it is barely seventy years old. This quiz covers what Wiccans believe and do and how the religion came to be. It starts with the essentials: the Rede and the Threefold Law, the Horned God and the Triple Goddess, the eight Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year and the full-moon Esbats, the pentacle, the athame and the other tools, the coven of thirteen, the year-and-a-day apprenticeship, skyclad ritual and the Book of Shadows. Then the history: Margaret Murray's discredited witch-cult, Charles Leland's Aradia, the 1951 repeal of the Witchcraft Act, Gerald Gardner's naturist-club coven at Bricket Wood, Doreen Valiente cutting Aleister Crowley out of the liturgy, Alex Sanders crowning himself King of the Witches, Raymond Buckland carrying the Craft to America, and the traditions that followed, from Dianic and Feri to Reclaiming and Seax-Wica. It finishes with Wicca in the modern world: The Craft and Charmed, the census numbers, the US Air Force, Dettmer v. Landon and the long fight for the pentacle on veterans' headstones. Easy questions suit anyone with a passing curiosity; the expert tier reaches Leviter Veslis, Karl Ernest Jarcke and Gardner's craft name. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Wicca, its founders and its traditions, and the supporting sentence is attached to each question. Our witches, Salem witch trials and Halloween pages cover the neighbouring ground.
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Q 01Which Wiccan Sabbat marks the winter solstice?
Yule
Yule falls at the winter solstice, the longest night; most Wiccans celebrate it as the rebirth of the God as the newborn sun, after which the days lengthen.
Q 02Which symbol is the most widely used emblem of Wicca?
The pentagram
The pentagram, a five-pointed star, is Wicca's best-known emblem; after Wiccan families sued, the US government agreed to allow the encircled star on military headstones.
Q 03What is the moral maxim followed by most Wiccans, "An it harm none, do what ye will", called?
The Wiccan Rede
The Wiccan Rede takes its name from an old word for advice or counsel, and Wiccans apply it to magic too: a spell may be worked only when it harms no one.
Q 04The seasonal festivals of the Wiccan calendar, taken together, are called what?
The Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year sounds ancient, but British pagans assembled its eight festivals in the mid-20th century, adding the solstices and equinoxes to four older seasonal feasts.
Q 05What are Wiccan rituals held at the full moon called?
Esbats
Esbats are held at the full moon, when Wiccans believe the mind is at its most magically powerful; the eight seasonal festivals follow the Sun instead.
Q 06A Wiccan's personal collection of rituals and spells is traditionally called what?
A Book of Shadows
A Book of Shadows began as Gerald Gardner's own compilation of rituals, which he claimed was ancient; today many Wiccans keep and add to a personal copy.
Q 07What is the black-handled ritual knife used by Wiccans, never for physical cutting, called?
Athame
Athame is the name of the black-handled knife; a Wiccan uses it to direct energy, tracing the ritual circle in the air, and leaves any real cutting to another blade.
Q 08The name "Wicca" comes from the Old English word wicca, which meant what?
A sorcerer
A sorcerer: Old English wicca was a man who practised magic, and together with its feminine form, wicce, it became the modern word witch.
Q 09On which island did Gerald Gardner run his own witchcraft museum from the 1950s until his death?
The Isle of Man
The Isle of Man: Gardner arrived as the 'resident witch' of a new witchcraft museum in Castletown, then took it over and ran it for the rest of his life.
Q 10Most early Wiccan groups worshipped a Mother Goddess alongside which male deity?
The Horned God
The Horned God came to Wicca from a 1920s theory, since discredited, that Europe's accused witches had secretly worshipped an ancient horned god of fertility.
Q 11The Wiccan Goddess is often pictured as a Triple Goddess of Maiden, Mother and which third aspect?
Crone
Crone: the three aspects mirror the waxing, full and waning Moon, so she stands for the waning phase, old age and wisdom.
Q 12Which Wiccan Sabbat falls at Halloween, on the night of 31 October?
Samhain
Samhain is when Wiccans honour their dead, because the veil between this world and the spirit world is believed to be at its thinnest that night.
Q 13Which Wiccan Sabbat is celebrated on 1 May?
Beltane
Beltane is a fire festival for the coming of summer; in the old Gaelic custom, cattle were driven between two bonfires to protect and purify them.
Q 21What is the traditional length of the apprenticeship before a Wiccan initiation?
A year and a day
A year and a day is the customary wait, used to screen newcomers and set them a course of study before a coven accepts them as initiates.
Q 22Which Egyptologist's 1921 book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" supplied Wicca with its founding myth of a surviving pagan religion?
Margaret Murray
Margaret Murray argued that Europe's accused witches had kept an ancient pagan religion alive; historians have since discredited the theory, but Gardner built Wicca's origin story on it.
Q 23Which English occultist, proclaimed "King of the Witches" by his covens in the 1960s, founded his own Wiccan tradition?
Alex Sanders
Q 14Which afterlife belief, championed by Gerald Gardner, do most Wiccans hold?
Reincarnation
Reincarnation: for Wiccans the aim is not to escape life on Earth but to enjoy it again and again until everything that can be learned has been learned.
Q 15What is the traditional Wiccan word for the practice of performing rituals in the nude?
Skyclad
Skyclad means clad only in the sky; the word mirrors the name of India's Digambara ('sky-clad') Jain monks, which Gardner, after decades in Asia, may have borrowed.
Q 16Which Wiccan tenet holds that whatever you send out, good or ill, comes back to you magnified?
The Threefold Law
The Threefold Law says whatever you send out returns three times over, which is why Wiccans warn that a harmful spell rebounds hardest on whoever casts it.
Q 17Which woman, initiated by Gardner in 1953, wrote much of Wicca's early liturgy including the best-known Charge of the Goddess?
Doreen Valiente
Doreen Valiente recognised that Gardner's supposedly ancient rituals borrowed from a notorious modern occultist, so she rewrote much of them in her own verse.
Q 18What is a Wiccan wedding ceremony called?
Handfasting
Handfasting takes its name from joining hands to seal a pledge; the old word meant a betrothal or trial marriage before Wiccans adopted it for their weddings.
Q 19Which British law, whose 1951 repeal let Gardner go public, had made it a crime to claim magical powers?
The Witchcraft Act 1735
The Witchcraft Act 1735 punished claims of magical power as fraud; in 1951 Parliament replaced it with a law aimed only at fraudulent mediums, so practising witchcraft was no longer a crime.
Q 20Gardner founded his first coven in the 1940s at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, on the grounds of what kind of establishment?
A naturist club
A naturist club: Gardner, a keen nudist, bought a plot at the Fiveacres club, and his coven met in its grounds and drew its first members from the club.
Alex Sanders founded the Alexandrian tradition with his wife Maxine, courting newspapers and documentary crews throughout the 1960s to spread it.
Q 24Who brought Gardnerian Wicca to the United States in the 1960s and later founded the Saxon-themed Seax-Wica?
Raymond Buckland
Raymond Buckland, a Londoner living on Long Island, flew back to Britain to be initiated and started America's first Gardnerian coven; tired of its hierarchy, he later devised the more democratic Seax-Wica.
Q 25Dianic Wicca, the female-focused tradition honouring a single Great Goddess, was founded in 1970s America by whom?
Zsuzsanna Budapest
Zsuzsanna Budapest began it with a women-only coven named after suffragist Susan B. Anthony; her 1975 arrest for reading tarot to an undercover policewoman later got a fortune-telling ban overturned.
Q 26Whose 1979 book "The Spiral Dance" became a bestselling guide to Goddess religion and helped found the Reclaiming tradition?
Starhawk
Starhawk, born Miriam Simos, learned witchcraft from Victor Anderson of the Feri tradition; her book drew many women to witchcraft by tying Goddess worship to feminism and activism.
Q 27Which of the four Wiccan elemental tools represents the element of earth?
The pentacle
The pentacle, a flat disc engraved with a magical symbol, stands for earth; objects to be consecrated are laid on it, while the chalice stands for water.
Q 28What do Wiccans call group energy raised in a circle and released toward a goal?
The cone of power
The cone of power is energy raised by dancing, drumming or chanting and then released; Gardner claimed New Forest witches raised one against Hitler in 1940, chanting "you cannot cross the sea".
Q 29What do Wiccans call the blissful afterlife realm where the souls of the dead rest?
The Summerland
The Summerland is where Wiccans say the spirit rests after death; they borrowed the name from 19th-century Spiritualists, along with the belief that mediums can reach the dead.
Q 30What is the Wiccan term for a non-Wiccan outsider?
Cowan
Cowan is also the Freemasons' word for an outsider posing as a Mason; it began as Scots for a builder of dry-stone walls who had never served an apprenticeship.