The Witch-cult in Western Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438574349)

Margaret Alice Murray (1863 -1963) was a prominent British anthropologist and Egyptologist. Her theories were acknowledged to have significantly influenced the emergence of Wicca and reconstructionist neopagan religions. Her main thesis in The Witch-cult in Western Europe was that a common pattern of underground pagan resistance to the Christian Church existed across Europe. Pagans worshipped a male God in covens of 13 worshippers. She believed that pagan beliefs and religion dating from the neolithic through the medieval period, secretly practiced human sacrifice until exposed by the witchhunt starting c. 1450. Murray confined her study to the cults in Great Britain

Author: Margaret Alice Murray
ISBN-10: 1438574347
ISBN-13: 9781438574349
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2010
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.71d