It is curious that Gardner appeared on the scene the same year that World War II came to a close. Gardner’s Wikipedia article explains: “moving to London in 1945, he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention.” Witchcraft had been outlawed in Britain for centuries, but the Witchcraft Act was repealed under Winston Churchill’s watch only a few short years later in 1951. Winston Churchill was also a Freemason. Prior to World War II, ethnicity and Paganism went hand in hand, and had done for millennia. In 1945, Gardner made his way to London “intent on propagating his religion,” which was a cobbled together mish-mash that confuses Teutonic and Celtic cultures, but ultimately leads practitioners away from both. While there is no smoking gun to prove a conspiracy, these are interesting coincidences to take note of.

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