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100 1 _aMurray, Margaret Alice,
_d1863-1963
245 1 4 _aThe Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe
500 _aRelease date is 2007-01-22
508 _aProduced by Michael Ciesielski, Irma Špehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEthnology
653 _aWitchcraft -- Great Britain
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20411
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