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Re: "Has anyone read Margaret Murray?"
Wicca is a modern creation which became more of an organized religion with an established orthodoxy and in- and out-groups than a lot of people are comfortable with.
There are still a lot of followers, and there's nothing wrong with them necessarily, but people who want to have a more free-wheeling interaction with heathenry/spirituality/magic(k)/etc are not as interested in Wicca's ideas as they used to be.
That's my experience at least.
May 09 · 5 months ago
🌻 softwarepagan [mod] · May 13 at 13:19:
@Ruby_Witch you are right about Wicca being a modern creation, but the opposite is true of many heathens: Wicca is exactly the kind of anything-goes McPaganism that we dislike very much.
Has anyone read Margaret Murray? — I read her book *The Witch Cult in Western Europe* a few years ago, and felt enchanted. I am not a neopagan myself, but given her influence on your community, I was curious what you thought of her. (Of course, I know she is not taken seriously by academics, but I don't think there's much to say on that.)