Raymond Howard was an English practitioner of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Wicca. He promoted his tradition, known as the Coven of Atho, through a correspondence course established in th
Howard with the Head of Atho
Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente was an English Wiccan who was responsible for writing much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. An author and poet, she also published
Raymond Howard (Wiccan)
…Productions through which they sold magical potions and related paraphernalia. They were known to prominent British Wiccans like Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, and they had placed an advertisement in the esoteric magazine Light encouraging fellow practitioners of the "Craft of the Wiccens" to contact them…
Valiente with ritual paraphernalia
During the Second World War, Valiente worked at Bletchley Park
The Witches' Cottage, a ritual space used by Valiente's Bricket Wood coven, as it appeared in 2006.
Altar statues of the Horned God and Mother Goddess crafted by Bel Bucca and owned by Valiente