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Hutton, Ronald, 01/12/1996, history.ac.uk, Review of The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations. [ 34 ] A review of Ronald Hutton's The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Max Dashu, 1998 (suppressedhistories.net).
"Ronald Hutton is the first academic historian to have attempted a full-scale history of modern Pagan witchcraft (particularly Wicca), and his scholarly yet entertaining tone in The Triumph of the Moon has star-struck a generation of Pagans and substantially changed the way we see ourselves.
It is for this reason that the historian Ronald Hutton (1999) dismissed any possibility of the New Forest coven being a pagan survival. [8] Instead, it has been proposed that the New Forest coven had been founded in the early twentieth century by various occultists who wished to 'resurrect' the hypothetical Witch-Cult as described in Murray's ...
Hutton was born at Ootacamund in India to a colonial family, [1] and is of part-Russian ancestry. [2] Upon arriving in England, he attended Ilford County High School, whilst becoming greatly interested in archaeology, joining the committee of a local archaeological group and taking part in excavations from 1965 to 1976, including at such sites as Pilsdon Pen hill fort, Ascott-under-Wychwood ...
A third definition attempts to distinguish shamans from other magico-religious specialists such as "mediums", "witch doctors", "spiritual healers" and "prophets" by certain techniques; Hutton notes that this is the definition most commonly used by modern scholars. The fourth definition makes use of the term purely to refer to the religious ...
Historian Ronald Hutton suggests in Triumph of the Moon that this identification with Herodias was inspired by the work of Jules Michelet in Satanism and Witchcraft. [15] Anthropologist and field folklorist Sabina Magliocco , on the other hand, is willing to consider a connection between the Italian Erodiade (Herodias), the Cult of Herodias ...
Ronald Hutton is the man behind the theory. So here's a Stonehenge theory we haven't heard before: a historian claims "cowboy builders" are responsible for Stonehenge, and apparently, they might ...
Ronald Hutton argues that the concept of the triple moon goddess as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, each facet corresponding to a phase of the moon, is a modern creation of Graves', [15] [27] who in turn drew on the work of 19th and 20th century scholars such as especially Jane Harrison; and also Margaret Murray, James Frazer, the other members of ...