Cunningham, Scott
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Birthname | Scott Douglas Cunningham | ||||
born on | 27 June 1956 at 09:25 (= 09:25 AM ) | ||||
Place | Royal Oak, Michigan, 42n29, 83w09 | ||||
Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American author of several books on Wicca and various other alternative religious subjects. His work Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, is one of the most successful books on Wicca ever published. He was a friend of notable occultists and Wiccans such as Raymond Buckland, and was a member of the Serpent Stone Family, and received his Third Degree Initiation as a member of that coven.
In 1983, Cunningham was diagnosed with lymphoma, which he successfully overcame. In 1990, while on a speaking tour in Massachusetts, he suddenly fell ill and was diagnosed with AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis. He suffered from several infections and died on 28 March 1993. Scott Cunningham was 36.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Buckland, Raymond (born 31 August 1934)
Events
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1983 (Lymphoma)
- Death by Disease 28 March 1993 (AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis, age 36)
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Source Notes
Dave Campbell quotes from Whispers of the Moon: Life and Work of Scott Cunningham, Philosopher, Magician, and Modern-day Pagan by David Harrington and deTraci Regula (Llewellyn, 1996), p. 3: "1956 ... in the delivery room of the John Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan... a week after Summer Solstice, at 9:25 A.M. on Wednesday June 27 ... Scott Douglas Cunningham ... burst into incarnation."
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Aids
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Lymphoma)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (Cryptococcal meningitis, fatal)
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Middle of three)
- Passions : Sexuality : Gay
- Vocation : Education : Public speaker
- Vocation : Occult Fields : Other Occult Fields (Wicca)
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy (Wicca, etc)
- 1956 births
- Birthday 27 June
- Birthplace Royal Oak, MI (US)
- Sun 5 Cancer
- Moon 23 Aquarius
- Asc 27 Leo
- 1993 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Aids
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth
- Passions : Sexuality : Gay
- Vocation : Education : Public speaker
- Vocation : Occult Fields : Other Occult Fields
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy