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Who is one of the biographers that scrutinized Gardner's claims about the New Forest coven?

  • Aidan Kelly

  • Robert Lomas

  • Christopher Knight

  • John Michael Greer

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Aidan Kelly is a scholar of Wicca who has scrutinized Gardner's claims about the New Forest coven. He believes that Gardner's account of the coven is exaggerated and that he invented many of the rituals and practices that he claimed to have learned from them. Kelly also believes that Gardner was a fraud who was trying to make money by selling books and workshops about Wicca.
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