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Margaret Murray's thesis that the witches of the trials were members of a surviving pagan religion — enormously influential and rejected by historians. Shelved as a document of its era, and of how a theory outruns its evidence.

SUBJECTSWitchcraftHistoriography
TAGS#murray#witch-cult#paganism#historiography

CONTENTS · 34

  1. 1PREFACE1 MIN
  2. 2BIBLIOGRAPHY 281 — GENERAL INDEX 286 — INTRODUCTION14 MIN
  3. 3I. CONTINUITY OF THE RELIGION11 MIN
  4. 4II. THE GOD — part 115 MIN
  5. 5II. THE GOD — part 212 MIN
  6. 6II. THE GOD — part 312 MIN
  7. 7II. THE GOD — part 411 MIN
  8. 8II. THE GOD — part 510 MIN
  9. 9III. ADMISSION CEREMONIES — part 111 MIN
  10. 10III. ADMISSION CEREMONIES — part 211 MIN
  11. 11III. ADMISSION CEREMONIES — part 311 MIN
  12. 12III. ADMISSION CEREMONIES — part 43 MIN
  13. 13IV. THE ASSEMBLIES — part 112 MIN
  14. 14IV. THE ASSEMBLIES — part 212 MIN
  15. 15IV. THE ASSEMBLIES — part 312 MIN
  16. 16V. THE RITES — part 112 MIN
  17. 17V. THE RITES — part 211 MIN
  18. 18V. THE RITES — part 312 MIN
  19. 19V. THE RITES — part 411 MIN
  20. 20V. THE RITES — part 512 MIN
  21. 21V. THE RITES — part 64 MIN
  22. 22VI. THE RITES (_continued_) — WITCHES' RAIN-MAKING AND FERTILITY RITES22 MIN
  23. 23VII. THE ORGANIZATION25 MIN
  24. 24VIII. FAMILIARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS — part 112 MIN
  25. 25VIII. FAMILIARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS — part 214 MIN
  26. 26VIII. FAMILIARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS — part 311 MIN
  27. 27VIII. FAMILIARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS — part 412 MIN
  28. 28APPENDIX I — FAIRIES AND WITCHES16 MIN
  29. 29APPENDIX II — TRIAL OF SILVAIN NEVILLON AND GENTIEN LE CLERC AT ORLEANS, 1614-156 MIN
  30. 30APPENDIX III — A. NAMES OF WITCHES IN COVENS5 MIN
  31. 31B. NAMES OF WITCHES12 MIN
  32. 32APPENDIX IV — JOAN OF ARC AND GILLES DE RAIS14 MIN
  33. 33APPENDIX V — FLYING OINTMENTS3 MIN
  34. 34BIBLIOGRAPHY6 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #20411). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.