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Wicca became "mainstream" to an extent during [[The Nineties]]. The polemic writings of the Silver Ravenwolf became popular, movies such as ''[[The Craft]]'' were released during this period, TV shows such as ''[[Charmed]]'' and ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' featured Wiccan characters, and the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, while not about real-life witchcraft in any way, inspired a few young people to take up witchcraft. Such portrayals were almost always inaccurate, sometimes confusing Wicca with either Satanism, other varieties of Neopaganism, or straight-up wizardry.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140126051005/http://www.dynionmwyn.net/wicca.html This page] has some more in-depth information on the beliefs and origins of Wicca. Also, there are many, ''many'' myths and misconceptions about Wicca that would take forever to put up here, but are dealt with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427071812/http://www.mdpagans.com/wiccaisnot.html here], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020101355/http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/wiccaandpaganismbasics/a/MythsMisconcept.htm here], [https://web.archive.org/web/20101103025347/http://www.virtualavalon.com/wakingdragon/Wdispell.htm here], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207222346/http://www.faqs.org/faqs/religions/wicca/faq/index.html here], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111220114/http://www.witchvox.com/va/list_articles.html?a=cabc&id=230739 here].
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