Edited sentence: Such extreme sanctions are rather rare, however, and usually felt to be unneccessary (and, in many cases, unenforceable outside of the offender's own coven).While the Wiccan faith, as a whole, does not contain any formalized rites of 'excommunication', an individual that is found to have violated the Rede in a particularly serious manner can sometimes expect to be 'cast out' of the faith -- in such a situation, the offender is considered to have lost the right to call himself a Wiccan