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witch cult en · NOUN
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(qualifier:As proposed by Margaret Murray) a covert pagan religion believed to have persisted across medieval Europe, devoted to an ancient fertility god and persecuted by Christianity as witchcraft.
The Middle Ages were permeated by the witch cult. Witches were consulted by love lorn maidens and swains, of all ranks and degrees.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 251:People who read of the old witch-trials would be horrified to come upon the witch-cult persisting in modern England.
1931 January 9, The Recorder, Port Pirie, SA, page 4, column 3:
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