The witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology - Softcover

Murray, Margaret Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111690750X ISBN 13: 9781116907506

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, 2009

Synopsis

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About the Author

Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist. She is primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was "the core of her academic career"; she was one of the first women to practice archaeology and the first woman to publicly unwrap a mummy. She is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God. Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith she supported.

Edition details

• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 111690750X
• ISBN 13: 9781116907506
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304