Amid all her other achievements, Margaret Murray managed to have a major impact on the way witchcraft and the occult were depicted in British supernatural movies. According to a press release issued on 18 October 1956: “Hollywood film actor Dana Andrews arrived in London today to make a film called at Elstree.” The story was accompanied by a curious photo of Andrews smooching with a rather startledlooking older lady. The caption read: “A kiss from Dana for 93-year-old Dr Margaret A. Murray of Bloomsbury, London, an archæologist whose hobby is studying witchcraft and black magic [and] who will give advice to Dana in his new film which is based on these subjects. They met at a reception at the
