[lbo-talk] Witches (Was Re: Wish I Was In Dixie)

[andie nachgeborenen]

That's it. It was big in some sectors of the 70s
feminist movement too. My non-expert moderately
extensive reading on the 16th and 17th witch hunt a
long time ago indicates that Murray has about as much
credibility as Robert Graves' elaborately learned
fantasies about The White Goddess.

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 
> As an avid HP Lovecraft fan, I am pretty sure that
> the
> book you are thinking of is The Witch-Cult in
> Western
> Europe, by Margaret Murray. (It was a huge influence
> on HPL, along with Fraser, not surprisingly since he
> loved the whole "ancient religions surviving in
> secret" thing.)
> 
> (Didn't Wittgenstein write notes on Fraser? I should
> read those. I wonder what interested him.)
> 
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This is an old notion, goes back the work of a
> > scholar
> > whose name I forget, Mary Something, wrote back in
> > the
> > teens and twenties of the last century, who
> thought
> > that the witch hunt was an attempt to stamp an an
> > actual surviving religion. 
> 
> 
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