Possible 5 sources that I will use

When we did the starting research on our topics, for Wicca I was able to find a website completely dedicated to Wicca. This website, www.wicca.org, has a lot of information. For this assignment, I focused on just one of the tabs that they provided: the Basic Tenets of Wicca-Craft. In Wicca, they have a design which is a five-pointed star, each of the points is supposed to remind a Wiccan of the Wiccan Rede. These five points are Harmony, reincarnation, power through knowledge, law of attraction and Deity is supposed to exist in the center of the star. I guess the thesis of this article would be that all five of these points reflect good natured, peaceful and self-fulfilling ideas that are the center of Wicca. Their audience appears to be mainly for those that don’t already know or belong to Wicca. They have a link to describe what the Rede is, they don’t speak in a way that everyday people wouldn’t be able to pick up and they explain everything first in how they know it, then in a common way that most other people (those not involved with Wicca) would understand. I was able to find a video through YouTube that was done by National Geographic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nPsyZJBTeQ). In this video, it featured a woman who lives in England and she just became a Wiccan. They were celebrating the next spring that was coming and they were performing a secret ritual to make incense and to get ready for spring. The thesis for this would probably be that Wiccan practices appear to happen everywhere and they are, again, peaceful practices that are designed to celebrate life between the Goddess and the Earth and it this community in England, people are starting to be accepted. The audience appears to be the general public, particularly those who do not know about Wicca. I think that National Geographic was trying to promote awareness about Wicca so the myths of Wiccans worshipping the devil could be shown as false. My last three sources are books that I found at UC’s library. One of the books I chose is The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. In her introduction, Rosemary’s thesis would probably be that there is a strong difference between the religious Witchcraft and the sorcerers kind of witchcraft which she is trying to distinguish and that Wicca (or Witchcraft) is becoming exceedingly more and more popular and understood. Her audience would most likely be those that are curious about Wicca and would possibly like to “try it out” or research it more. Her audience could also possibly be for the Wiccans that are new, the encyclopedia points out people who are famously involved, Laws that are declared and the different aspects of Witchcraft and Witches. The next book that I was able to find and will probably use as a source is Witchcraft Myths in American Culture by Marion Gibson. In her introduction her thesis would probably be that Witchcraft has been present for many years, from the past with the Salem hunting, to the Wizard of Oz and Bewitched and that it will continue to be present for many more years.. She highlighted what each of her chapters will be covering and then she went on to list all of the people and places that helped her write her book. The last source that I will be highlighting is History of Witchcraft by Jeffrey B. Russell and Brooks Alexander. Their thesis statement would probably be that no witch has ever probably fit the common stereotype of a “witch” with the warts, conical hats, broomsticks and evil, cackling laugh. They believe that “Witches exist-or don’t exist-depending on one’s definition of a witch.” Their audience sounds like it would be the general public that is interested in reading about and educating themselves on not only the history of witchcraft but also the misconceptions with it as well.