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The “devil,” Rowan Gant, and the Witches’ Creed

I have a great show lined up for you today. I hope everyone got into the new Year safely, and that 2010 finds you in good health. My 2009 ended with an awesome surprise. Someone bought a copy of my liturgical play “Baldur’s Death.” 29 pages worth of rhyme and meter, and someone bought a [...]

A few thoughts about Margaret Murray’s work …

I am going over Murray’s Witchcraft an Western Europe with a fine toothed comb. I find her methodology troublesome. 1. She wrote, “The evidence which I now bring forward is taken entirely from contemporary sources, i.e. the legal records of the trials, pamphlets giving accounts of witches, and the works of Inquisitors and other writers.” [...]