Raymond Buckland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Buckland

English American author and Wiccan

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1934

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2017

Profession: writer, essayist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Raymond Buckland (31 August 1934 – 27 September 2017) whose craft name was Robat, was an English writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he was a high priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax-Wica traditions. According to his written works, primarily Witchcraft from the Inside, published in 1971, he was the first person in the United States to openly admit to being a practitioner of Wicca, and he introduced the lineage of Gardnerian Wicca to the United States in 1964, after having been initiated by Gerald Gardner's then-high priestess Monique Wilson in Britain the previous year.
He later formed his own tradition dubbed Seax-Wica which focuses on the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon paganism.