I know that not all pagans are Wiccan so I wondered what the Witches/Wiccans on the forum considered was the difference between Wicca and Paganism?

Personally I think Wicca is a newer version of paganism sort of remixed a bit to make it fit in better with modern day life.

For instance a pagan in the 8th century would have had a drink then left an offering for the Guardian of the spring...imagine doing that when you take a drink from a tap.

Or passing a cross roads and making an offering to the guardian of the ways ...as you speed past at 70 miles an hour.

I think casting a circle would have been a much more serious affair then than it is now.
Salt used to be pretty hard to come by and really couldn't be used willy nilly as it is today.

I am sure there are other differences like the knowledge of spirit being much greater or tools being much harder to come by.

I remember having perhaps five crystals to work with in one lifetime where now I have more than that in one box.

perhaps these are not the kinds of things you were thinking of but they are the main differences I can see at the moment.
I'll be interested to see what anyoine else has to say.

Zygo

Well, in my personal opinion, Zygo was right in his way. Wicca is a newer branch of Paganism. But to be more specific, Paganism is quite eclectic, Pagans worship multiple deities, for all number of aspects, where as Wiccans are more focused with their deities, at least the wiccans I know are. They mostly focus on worshiping the God and Goddess, where as I as a Pagan, worship multiple. But I could be wrong, I'm just going by the form of general wicca that my own mother introduced me to when I was a teen.

~DS~