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@CodexNotFound I think that the "not a cult" was probably temporal. In 2024, most people have heard of Wiccan beliefs and don't think it sounds like a cult. Wiccans were portrayed very negatively in the UK press in the 1960s and it wasn't really until the 1970s that it came to the US. So in the 1980s, most people probably wouldn't have even heard of Wicca.

There was also a greater worry about cults in the 1980s. The Jonestown "drink the kool-aid" cult massacre was in 1978 and in the 80s cults could be a big news topic (whereas the news doesn't talk about cults today).

So it's probably in the listing as a reaction to the unknown status of Wicca and general societal fear of cults then. It was really a decade later when Wicca started entering the larger public consciousness.