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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. [1] Witchcraft with Alex Sanders 1964–72.
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- Arline Maxine Morris, 30 December 1946 (age 76), Cheshire, England
- Alexandrian Witch and Priestess, Co-Founder of the Alexandrian Tradition of Witchcraft
- Alex Sanders
Alex Sanders (6 June 1926 – 30 April 1988), born Orrell Alexander Carter, who went under the craft name Verbius, 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 ...
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- 30 April 1988 (aged 61), Sussex, England
- Orrell Alexander Carter, 6 June 1926, Birkenhead, England
- Wiccan Priest
Apr 27, 2019 · Formed by Alex Sanders and his wife Maxine, Alexandrian Wicca is very similar to the Gardnerian tradition. Although Sanders claimed to have been initiated into witchcraft in the early 1930s, he was also a member of a Gardnerian coven before breaking off to start his own tradition in the 1960s.
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Maxine was initiated into the Circle of Witchcraft in 1964. The High Priest of that Coven was Alex Sanders, known throughout the world as 'King of the Witches'. Maxine and Alex were Handfasted in 1965 and legally married in 1968.
Alexandrian Wicca or Alexandrian Witchcraft is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders (also known as "King of the Witches") who, with his wife Maxine Sanders, established the tradition in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
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Alex, along with his onetime partner, Maxine Sanders, were highly flamboyant and their Craft activities created some of the more sensationalist headlines of the 1960s and 70s.
Jan 2, 2018 · Jan 2, 2018. -- ‘Alexandrian Witchcraft’ is a designation for the witchcraft practises of Alex and Maxine Sanders and was coined circa 1971 when Stewart Farrar, a journalist at the time,...
