The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry is a Scouting-like movement operating in the United Kingdom, which was founded in 1916 by Ernest Westlake. Like Scouting, it was inspired by Ernest Seton's Seton Indians, and Seton was its honorary Grand Chieftain. Whilst largely being contemporary to Baden-Powell's Scouting movement, it differed from it in that it did not have the perceived military overtones of Scouting, instead focusing on the virtues of kindness, fellowship, animal conservation and woodcraft. The Order was small compared to Scouts, having only 1,200 members by 1926.
The Order accepted many premises of Neopaganism. Indeed, some have speculated that it provided the basis for the New Forest coven, and through that the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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