The Triumph of the Moon
The Triumph of the Moon 'a brilliant history'The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading'The IndependentModern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the…
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The Triumph of the Moon
'a brilliant history'The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading'The IndependentModern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents.This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly study of modern pagan witchcraft. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. Ronald Hutton examines the nature and development of this religion, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800.
We also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic