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S2: Halloween: Professor Margaret Murray

Parcast Presents
Parcast Presents
Episode • Oct 30, 2019 • 47m
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A first-wave feminist of the 1800s and 1900s, Professor Margaret Murray was known as both "The Old Woman of Egyptology" and "The Grandmother of Wicca." She was one of the first to take up the subject of the witch-cults of England.