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The Evolution of Margaret Alice Murray’s Witch-Cult

By Eldyohr

Margaret Murray was a prominent Egyptologist and anthropologist whose works on Egypt are still circulated and respected, but is remembered by the Contemporary Pagan community for her “Witch-Cult” theory. This theory promulgated the idea of a pre-Christian Pagan religion (the “Old Religion,” the Witch-Cult, the Dianic cult) that was practiced primarily among the . . . → Read More: The Evolution of Margaret Alice Murray’s Witch-Cult

Creating a Daily Plan of Study

By Patti Wigington

For many Pagans and Wiccans, it’s hard to find the time to dedicate to your spiritual growth. After all, you’ve got a job, kids, a life… who has time to read, right? Well, the fact is that you’ve got the same 24 hours in your day as everyone else. It’s up to . . . → Read More: Creating a Daily Plan of Study

The Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology

By Peter Berresford Ellis

[Snip] The Celtic ‘tree zodiac’ fabrications, the direct result of Robert Graves’ invention of a tree calendar’, have become an almost insurmountable barrier to any serious study of the forms of astrology that were practised by pre-Christian Celtic society. For fifty years, from the time Graves’ published his book The White . . . → Read More: The Fabrication of ‘Celtic’ Astrology