 Reacting against the increasingly inclusive use of the term were Pagan Witches who instead characterised their practices as forms of Traditional Witchcraft . Many Pagan Witches who considered themselves to be Traditional Witches exhibited an us @-@ and @-@ them mentality against Gardnerianism and allied traditions , for whom they reserved the term Wicca . Doyle White suggests that they had done so in order to distance themselves from the increasing influence of the New Age movement over the Wiccan mainstream with its " iconographical emphasis on white light " , instead embracing the traditional European view that associated witchcraft with darkness . Historian Ronald Hutton states that he knew of three Wiccan covens founded in the 1980s who began to describe themselves as Traditional Witches in the 1990s . 
 Reacting against the increasingly inclusive use of the term <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> Pagan Witches <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>instead characterised their practices as forms of Traditional Witchcraft . Many Pagan Witches <a href='null_relcl' title='3'><mark>who</mark></a>considered themselves to be Traditional Witches exhibited an us @-@ and @-@ them mentality against Gardnerianism and allied traditions , for whom they reserved the term Wicca . Doyle White <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>suggests</mark></a> that they had done so in order to distance themselves from the increasing influence of the New Age movement over the Wiccan mainstream with its " iconographical emphasis on white light " , instead embracing the traditional European view <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>that</mark></a>associated witchcraft with darkness . Historian Ronald Hutton <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>states</mark></a> that he knew of three Wiccan covens founded in the 1980s <a href='null_relcl' title='7'><mark>who</mark></a>began to describe themselves as Traditional Witches in the 1990s . 
Reacting against the increasingly inclusive use of the term was Pagan Witches instead characterised their practices as forms of Traditional Witchcraft . Many Pagan Witches considered themselves to be Traditional Witches exhibited an us @-@ and @-@ them mentality against Gardnerianism and allied traditions , for whom they reserved the term Wicca . Doyle White suggest that they had done soo in order to distance theyself from the increasing influence of da New Age movement over the Wiccan mainstream with its " iconographical emphasis on white light " , instead embracing the traditional European view associated witchcraft witt darkness . Historian Ronald Hutton state that he knew of three Wiccan covens founded in the 1980s began to describe themselves as Traditional Witches in the 1990s .