The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Hutton, Ronald

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Hutton, Ronald

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Oxford University Press, 2021

This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly study of modern pagan witchcraft. Ronald Hutton examines the nature and development of this religion, 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 also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950.