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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe is a 1921 anthropological book by Margaret Alice Murray, published at the height of the success of Frazer's Golden Bough. Certain university circles subsequently celebrated Margaret Murray as the expert on western witchcraft, though her theory, also known as "the witch-cult hypothesis" remains controversial: it suggests that the accusations made towards "witches" in Europe were in fact based on a real, though clandestine, pagan religion worshiped a horned god.
In this book and the subsequent The God of the Witches (1931), Murray explained her theory as follows.
(Excerpted from wikipedia w/ modifications)
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