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
Answer
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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