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witch-cult hypothesis

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discredited theory that witch trials of Early Modern Europe were attempts to suppress a pre-Christian religion

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modern paganism

Franz Josef Mone

European witchcraft

Witchcraft trials in the early modern period

New Forest coven

Cochrane's Craft

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Conspiracy theories European witchcraft Pseudohistory Wicca

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