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|birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1926|6|6}}
|birth_place=[[Birkenhead]], Lloegr
|death_date={{deathMehefin date1988, and62 age|df=yes|1988|4|30|1926|6|6}}oed
|death_place=[[Sussex]], EnglandLloegr
|occupation=Archoffeiriad [[WiccaWica]]n Priestidd
|spouses=Doreen Stretton; Arline Maxine Morris
|parents=Hannah Jane Bibby; Orrell Alexander Carter
|children=Paul a Janice (gyda Doreen); Maya Alexandria a Victor Mikhael (gyda Maxine)}}
[[Yr ocwlt|Ocwltydd]] [[Saeson|Seisnig]] ac Archoffeiriad yn y grefydd [[Neo-baganiaeth|Neo-baganaidd]] o'r enw, [[Wica]], oedd '''Alex Sanders''' (6 Mehefin 1926 – 30 Ebrill1988Ebrill 1988). Ganed Sanders yn '''Orrell Alexander Bibby''', hefyd a gelwir gan ei [[enw crefft]] yn '''Verbius'''. Sefydlodd Sanders draddodiad Wicaidd o'r enw [[Wica Alecsandraidd]] yn y 1960au, a seiliwyd yn helaeth ar [[Wica Gardneraidd]].
O dras [[dosbarth gweithiol]], dechreuodd AlexSanders, yn ddyn ifanc, weithio fel [[Mediwmaeth|mediwm]] mewn [[Eglwys ysbrydol|Eglwysi Ysbrydol]]. SymudoddAr efôl ymlaenhynny, i astudioastudiodd ac iymarferodd ymarferSanders [[dewiniaeth seremonïol|ddewiniaeth seremonïol]]. Ym 1963, cafodd eef ei ynydu i mewn i [[Wica Gardneraidd]] ac yna aeth eef ymlaen i sefydlu ei gwfen ei hun. Wrth sefydlu'r cwfen cyntaf hwn, cynhwysoddcyflwynodd ef dechnegau dewiniaeth seremonïol ynddo. Honnodd ef iddo gael ei ynydu gan ei fam-gu GymreigGymraeg, Mary Bibby (née Roberts),<ref name=":0" /> yn blentyn, ond mae ymchwil ddiweddar wedi gwrthbrofi'r honiad hwn, gan y bu farw ei fam-gu ym 1907, rhyw 19 mlynedd cyn i Sanders gael ei eni.<ref name=":0">Wibberley, C. (2018).</ref>
Yn ystod y 1960au, ymddangosodd ef yn y papurau ac ar gyfryngau eraill yn aml, gan gynnwys nifer o raglenni dogfen. Priododd ef â dynes llawer iau nag ef o'r enw [[Maxine Sanders]], a dechreuodd y boblrhai a ynydwyd ganddo ei alw yn "Frenin y Gwrachod". Nid oedd ambell i Wrach Gardneraidd yn hoff iawn o hyn, gan gynnwys [[Patricia Crowther (Wiciad)|Patricia Crowther]] ac [[Eleanor Bone]], ac felly gwrthodont ef. Ynghyd aâ Maxine Sanders ac Archoffeiriadesau eraill, datblygodd AlexSadners ei draddodiad Wicaidd. Yn y 1970au a'r 1980au hwyr, sefydlodd ef grŵp dewiniaeth seremonïol o'r enw ''Ordine Della Luna'', cyn iddo farw ym 1988.
== Bywyd cynnar ==
Ganed yn Orrell Alexander Bibby, ar 6 JuneMehefin 1926, yn Ysbyty St. Catherine (56 Church Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead),<ref name="MaxineCOA1">"A Talk by Maxine Sanders" part 1, ''Witchcraft and Wicca'' Issue 3, p. 4. London: Children of Artemis.</ref> Sanders oedd y plentyn hynaf o blith ei bum sibling arall. Orrell Alexander Carter (hefyd a elwir yn Harold Sanders) oedd enw ei dad., a Dyweddywed mai diddanwr oedd eef tra mai gwas domestig oedd mamei Alexfam, Hannah Jane Bibby; ni phriodont â'i gilydd. Bu'r teulu yn byw gyda mam-gu tad Alex, Elizabeth Carter (née Gandy), yn 1 Moon Street, Birkenhead, am gyfnod, ond symudont i Cornbrook Street, Old Trafford, [[Manceinion]]. Yno, newidiont eu cyfenw yn Sanders yn answyddogol; nid oedd Alex yn ymwybodol o hyn nes iddiiddo ymgeisio am basbort yn hwyrach yn ei fywyd, a newidiodd ef ei enw yn swyddogol yn y1960au.<ref name="MaxineCOA1" /><ref name="KingOfTheWitches">{{cite book|last=Johns|first=June|year=1969|title=King of the Witches|location=New York|publisher=Coward-McCann, Inc}}</ref>
Ar adeg geniei eni, cofrestrodd ef yn Orrell Alexander Bibby, ond cofrestrwyd ei chwaer, Joan (ganed ym 1928), a'i frawd, Thomas (ganed ym 1929), yn Carter yn Birkenhead. Cofrestrwyd gweillgweddill ei siblingiaid, Patricia (1933), John R (1934), a David (1937), yn Sanders yn Barton, Manceinion.
== Defod newid byd ==
Ceir gwahanol fersiynau ar sut yyr cafoddynydwyd Sanders ei ynydu yn Wrach, gan gynnwys nifer ganddo ef ei hunan lle bodgydag anghysondebau. YDywed fersiwnJune mwyafJohns enwogym ydymywgraffiad iddoSanders, gael''King eiof ynyduthe ganWitches'', eifod Alex yn mynd i ymweld â'i fam-gu yngheb Nghymru.iddi Dywedgael gwybod, Junea'i Jonhsfod yn ydod bywgraffiad,ar ''Kingei ofthraws thewrth Witches:''{{Quoteiddi box|quote=Sandersberfformio haddefod. tuberculosisYn ashapus abod childSanders andheb regularlygnocio visiteder hismwyn grandmothertynnu ei sylw, Marygofynnodd Bibby i Sanders ddadwisgo, a'i [[cunningbod woman]]yn inmynd Walesi for"sicrhau thena freshfyddwch air.<refyn name=dweud wrth neb am yr hyn dy fod wedi'i weld yma heddiw,"MaxineCOA1 gan ychwanegu "/>os Accordingwyt to... Sandersbydda thisi'n wasdy ladd di."<ref>{{cite book|last=Johns|first=J|author-link=|date=1969|title=King of the beginningWitches: The World of hisAlex magicalSanders|url=|location=London|publisher=Peter education:Davies|page=12-13|isbn=}}</ref>
{{quote|One evening in 1933, when I was seven, I was sent round to my grandmother's house for tea. For some reason I didn't knock at the door as I went in, and was confronted by my grandmother, naked, with her grey hair hanging down to her waist, standing in a circle drawn on the kitchen floor.{{cite quote |date=January 2016}} }}
Regaining her composure, she told Sanders to step into the circle, take off his clothes, and put his head between his thighs. As he did so, she took a sickle-knife and nicked his scrotum, saying, "You are one of us now." (This was later revealed to be false and Sanders was merely furthering his publicity) It was then that Sanders realised she was a [[witchcraft|witch]].<ref name="ManMythMagic">Cavendish, Richard (1970). "Alex Sanders", ''Man, Myth and Magic''. {{ISBN|1-85435-731-X}}.</ref> His Grandmother was a [[hereditary witch]], a descendant of the Welsh chieftain [[Owain Glyndŵr]], the last man (according to Sanders) to have called himself "King of the Witches";<ref name="ManMythMagic"/> supposedly his grandmother let him copy her [[Book of Shadows]] when he was nine and taught him the [[ritual|rites]] and [[Magic (paranormal)|magic]] of Witches. He was taught [[clairvoyance]] first by [[scrying]] in inky water, then in his grandmother's crystal.<ref name="KingOfTheWitches"/> Sanders claimed that following [[the Blitz]], and a few months before her death at age 74, Mrs Bibby conferred upon him second- and third-grade initiations, involving [[Great Rite|ritual sex]].<ref name="KingOfTheWitches"/>|author=June Johns|source=King of the Witches}}
Serch hynny, mae'r honiad hwn wedi cael ei wrthbrofi yn fawr. Dywed Wibberley (2018):<ref>Wibberley, C. (2018).</ref>{{Quote box|quote=These documents, prepared in 2018 and recently made publically available through the Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive, show beyond a doubt that the story of Alex’s childhood initiation at the hands of his maternal grandmother Mary Bibby (née Roberts) is not credible as an accurate historical account of events. Records show Mary passing away in 1907, when Alex’s own mother would have been only four years old. The report puts it succinctly: “Mary could have had no direct influence on Alex as she did not live long enough to raise her own children so that [Alex’s claims to have had interaction with her] are demonstrably false”|author=Wibberley, C.|source=In the research article by Kotva, S., "Was Alex initiated by his grandmother?
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