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What was the name of Theory that Margaret Murray focused her research on during the First World War?

  • Witch-cult hypothesis

  • Matriarchal religion theory

  • Goddess movement theory

  • Dianic Wicca theory

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Unable to return to Egypt due to the First World War, Margaret Murray focused her research on the witch-cult hypothesis. This theory proposed that the witch trials of Early Modern Christendom were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.
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