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The Periodical Volume 8, No. 113

The Periodical Volume 8, No. 113

Press, Oxford University
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1234931079
ISBN13: 9781234931070
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: French
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...curing. Such charms and spells are common to every nation and country, and are practised by the priests and people of every religion. They are part of the common heritage of the human race and are therefore of no practical value in the study of any one particular cult. Ritual Witchcraft--or, as I propose to call it, the Dianic cult--embraces the religious beliefs and ritual of the people known in late mediaeval times as 'Witches'. The evidence proves that underlying the Christian religion was a cult practised by many classes of the community, chiefly, however, by the more ignorant or those in the less thickly inhabited parts of the country. It can be traced back to pre-Christian times, and appears to be the ancient religion of Western Europe--a definite religion with beliefs, ' Condensed from the introduction to The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A study in Anthropology. By Margaret Alice MurraY. Published by Humphrey Milford. ritual, and organization as highly developed as that of any other cult in the world. The deity of this cult was incarnate in a man, a woman, or an animal; the animal form being apparently earlier than the human, for the god was often spoken of as wearing the skin or attributes of an animal. At the same time, however, there was another form of the god in the shape of a man with two faces. Such a god is found in Italy (where he was called Janus or Dianus), in Southern France, and in the English Midlands. The feminine form of the name, Diana, is found throughout Western Europe as the name of the female deity or leader of the so-called Witches, and it is for this reason that I have called this ancient religion the Dianic cult. The dates of the two chief festivals, May Eve and November Eve, indicate the use of a calendar...

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