The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

by Ronald Hutton

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This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents.

Ronald Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. 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. We...Read more
  • ISBN10 0198827369
  • ISBN13 9780198827368
  • Publish Date 10 October 2019 (first published 4 November 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 544
  • Language English