 The term Wicca appears to have developed within the Pagan Witchcraft community during the early 1960s , as increasing numbers of Pagan Witches learned of the Old English term wicca , the etymological origin of the Modern term witch . This etymological fact had been referred to five times in Gerald Gardner 's book The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ) , as well as in other early texts propagating Pagan Witchcraft , such as <unk> <unk> 's Where Witchcraft Lives ( 1962 ) and <unk> Glass ' Witchcraft , The Sixth <unk> – and Us ( 1965 ) . None of these specifically referred to the Pagan Witchcraft religion as Wicca . 
