TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Margaret Alice
TI  - The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
AV  - BF 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Witchcraft -- Great Britain
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe; Release date is 2007-01-22; Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Irma Špehar and the Online
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N2  - "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology" by Margaret Alice Murray is an anthropological study published in 1921. Murray presents a controversial theory: that European witch trials targeted practitioners of an ancient, secret pagan religion worshiping a horned god, not deluded or innocent victims. She argues this pre-Christian fertility cult survived underground for centuries, organized into disciplined covens, until Christianity launched its persecution during the Reformation. Drawing on witch trial records and James Frazer's work, Murray reinterprets confessions as evidence of genuine religious practices rather than fantasy or heresy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20411
ER  -