‘Historically speaking, the “ancient” rituals of the
Goddess movement are almost certainly bunk.’

In all probability, not a single element of the Wiccan story is
true. The evidence is overwhelming that Wicca is a distinctly
new religion, a 1950s concoction influenced by such things as
Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth-century fascination with
the esoteric and the occult, and that various assumptions
informing the Wiccan view of history are deeply flawed.
Furthermore, scholars generally agree that there is no
indication, either archaeological or in the written record, that
any ancient people ever worshipped a single, archetypal
goddess — a conclusion that strikes at the heart of Wiccan
belief. The Atlantic