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I have discovered that there seems to be some debate about whether or not the Wiccan Rede and the poem the Rede of the Wiccae are the same thing. Some people (and this is what I have always thought) say that the eight word Rede was taken from the poem, and that there was no such thing before it - thus, making them both pretty well the same advice.
Then there are others who say that they are definitely not the same, and that the poem by Gwen Thompson simply contained the older Rede at the end.
Before I started redoing my website, I'd actually had someone write in and scold me for not 'realizing that there is a difference between the two'. So, what do you think? Are/were they the same document created by the same woman, or is the short, eight word version something older, perhaps from the New Forest days?
--Phae
Then there are others who say that they are definitely not the same, and that the poem by Gwen Thompson simply contained the older Rede at the end.
Before I started redoing my website, I'd actually had someone write in and scold me for not 'realizing that there is a difference between the two'. So, what do you think? Are/were they the same document created by the same woman, or is the short, eight word version something older, perhaps from the New Forest days?
--Phae
