Regardless: many people (including me) credit high priestess Doreen Valiente for the emphasis that Wicca puts on the Goddess. For me, Valiente was one of the most important figures in Wicca. She wrote down much of its ritual and worship; and she played an integral part in lifting the legal ban on witchcraft on 29 July 1951, which had been in place for over two centuries at that point.
