01863cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000140007804000110009204100170010305000070012010000390012724500620016626400510022830000470027933600260032633700260035233800360037850000990041450000310051350801170054452007130066153400450137465300140141965300320143385600430146599900170150820411UtSlPG20260610133454.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aa22000394  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aBF1 aMurray, Margaret Alice,d1863-196314aThe Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe  aRelease date is 2007-01-22  aProduced by Michael Ciesielski, Irma Špehar and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"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.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aEthnology  aWitchcraft -- Great Britain40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20411  c61682d61682