Margaret Murray, Witchcraft and Murder – Episode 58

Today we talk about murder most fowl and about Margaret Murray’s investigations into what she thought might be motive by witchcraft. We talk about Murray’s research into witch cults and how that research influenced what we know as modern Wicca practices.

Links

Corrections First:

• It’s not King Phillips War (that’s earlier) it was King Williams War that is believed to have kicked off Salem. That idea is outlined in the book In The Devil’s Snare, which I have linked below
• The bad journalist was not Robert McCormick, it was Donald McCormick, link below

Now Notes!

• Books by Murray
  • Witch Cult in Western Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-cult_hypothesis
  • http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/wcwe/
• Sir Flinders Petrie
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Edwards
  • http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/about/history
• Murray Egypt
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osireion
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray
  • https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-forgotten-egyptologist-and-first-wave-feminist-who-invented-wicca
• Ronald Hutton
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Hutton
  • http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/recommendedreading/p/Professor-Ronald-Hutton.htm
  • Triumph of the Moon
    • https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Moon-History-Modern-Witchcraft/dp/0192854496
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_the_Moon
• Gerald Gardner
  • Witchcraft Today
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Today
• Charles Leland
  • Aradia
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aradia
    • http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/aradia/
• James George Frazier
  • Golden Bough
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
    • http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/?
• Lovecraft and Murray
  • The Festival
    • http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/f.aspx
  • The Call of Cthulhu
    • http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/cc.aspx
  • Commonplace Book
    • https://www.wired.com/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/
• Owen Davies video on later witch trials
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWquza-Ax4w
• Charles Walton murder
  • Donald McCormick
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McCormick
  • The Case that Foiled Fabian
    • https://www.amazon.com/Case-that-Foiled-Fabian-Witchcraft/dp/0752493574
    • http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29604413
• Bella and the Wych Elm BBC
  • http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/is-this-the-bella-in-the-wych-elm-unravelling-the-mystery-of-the-skull-found-in-a-tree-trunk-8546497.html
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%3F
• Fabian of the Yard
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_of_the_Yard
• Le Sorcier (Trois Freres)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer_(cave_art)
• Cerunnos
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos
• Gundestrup Cauldron
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_cauldron
• Salem and larger panic
  • King Williams War
    • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/?no-ist
  • In the Devil’s Snare
    • https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Snare-Salem-Witchcraft-Crisis/dp/0375706909
• Imbolc
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc
• Revocation of the Witchcraft Act
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Act_1735
• Curse of the Demon
  • http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xd6p8_night-of-the-demon-1957_shortfilms
  • Casting of the Runes
    • http://www.hypnogoria.com/html/castingtherunes.html
  • Dana Andrews and Margaret Murray
    • http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-actor-dana-andrews-kisses-margaret-murray-69301405.html
• Gerald Gardner and Ronald Hutton documentary
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbdXCoxC14
• Computer science and gender study
  • http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding

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