Triumph of the Moon
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 1999
502 pages
978-0-19-154279-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched, studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Village cunning folk and Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons and members of rural secret societies, all appear in the pages of this book. Also included are some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W B Yeats, D H Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950.
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Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- MACROCOSM
- FINDING A LANGUAGE
- FINDING A GODDESS
- FINDING A GOD
- FINDING A STRUCTURE
- FINDING A HIGH MAGIC
- FINDING A LOW MAGIC
- FINDING A FOLKLORE
- FINDING A WITCHCRAFT
- MATRIX
- GOD (AND GODDESS) PARENTS
- MICROCOSM
- GERALD GARDNER
- GERALDÌS PEOPLE
- THE WIDER CONTEXT: HOSTILITY
- THE WIDER CONTEXT: REINFORCEMENT
- OLD CRAFT, NEW CRAFT
- THE MAN IN BLACK
- ROYALTY FROM THE NORTH
- UNCLE SAM AND THE GODDESS
- COMING OF AGE
- GRANDCHILDREN OF THE SHADOWS
- NOTES
- INDEX
