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Maxine Sanders (born Arline Maxine Morris; 30 December 1946 [citation needed], in Cheshire) is a key figure in the development of modern pagan witchcraft and Wicca and, along with her late husband, Alex Sanders, the co-founder of Alexandrian Wicca.
Alex Sanders (6 June 1926 – 30 April 1988), born Orrell Alexander Carter, [1] who went under the craft name Verbius, [2] was an English occultist and High Priest in the modern Pagan religion of Wicca, responsible for founding, and later developing with Maxine Sanders, the tradition of Alexandrian Wicca, also called Alexandrian Witchcraft, during the 1960s.
The tradition is based largely upon Gardnerian Wicca, in which Sanders was trained, [3] and initiated, and also contains elements of ceremonial magic and Qabalah, which Sanders had studied independently. Maxine Sanders recalls that the name was chosen when Stewart Farrar, a student of the Alex Sanders', began to write What Witches Do. "Stewart ...
Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on 24 June 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism.Along with her two husbands, Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, she has published "some of the most influential books on modern Witchcraft to date". [1]
Maxine Sanders also notes that it was in response to Farrar's questions about how to describe their practice in his book that the Alexandrian tradition was named. [26] On 21 February 1970 Farrar was initiated into Alexandrian Wicca and joined the Sanders' coven. [27] Farrar met his future wife, then Janet Owen (34 years his junior), in the coven.
Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca is a Boston-area family of Alexandrian Wicca-covens directly downline from Coven Chthonioi.Coven Chthonioi grew out of the Alexandrian practice of its founders in the 1970s, has an unbroken lineage back to Alex Sanders and Maxine Sanders, and has been in continuous operation since 1974. [2]
What Witches Do is a book by Stewart Farrar, and is an eye-witness account of Wiccan practices, namely that of the Alexandrian coven run by Alex Sanders and his wife Maxine Sanders. Description [ edit ]
Wiccan priestess, witch and author Cheri Lesh's craft name is Cerridwen Fallingstar.. A craft name, also referred to as a magical name, is a secondary religious name often adopted by practitioners of Wicca and other forms of Neopagan witchcraft or magic.