Destruction of Witchcraft, Cultism and Occult: Eliminating the Power of Witchcraft, Cultism and Occult in Your Life

By Dr.Olusola Coker

The Devil is flanked by witches who worship Satan in Francisco de Goya's (1789) painting, Witches' Sabbath. The witch-cult hypothesis holds that these stories were influenced by a real-life pagan sect that revered a god with horns.
The disproved witch-cult hypothesis held that the Early Modern witch trials were a response to the persistence of pre-Christian, pagan religion in Europe following its Christianization. According to those who supported it, the witch religion involved midnight rites on the witches' Sabbath and was centered on the worship of a Horned God of fertility, the underworld, the hunt, and the hunted. Christian oppressors referred to him as the Devil.

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• Release date: Oct 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387510535

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Destruction of Witchcraft, Cultism and Occult

Eliminating the Power of Witchcraft, Cultism and Occult in Your Life

Dr. Olusola Coker

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INTRODUCTION

Witchcraft Cult

The Occult Has Demonic  Influence In Spiritual War

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  Introduction

The Devil is flanked by witches who worship Satan in Francisco de Goya's (1789) painting, Witches' Sabbath. The witch-cult hypothesis holds that these stories were influenced by a real-life pagan sect that revered a god with horns.

The disproved witch-cult hypothesis held that the Early Modern witch trials were a response to the persistence of pre-Christian, pagan religion in Europe following its Christianization. According to those who supported it, the witch religion involved midnight rites on the witches' Sabbath and was centered on the worship of a Horned God of fertility, the underworld, the hunt, and the hunted. Christian oppressors referred to him as the Devil.

Witchcraft Cult

Witches who worship Satan are shown flanking the Devil in Francisco de Goya's (1789) painting, Witches' Sabbath. According to the witch-cult theory, these tales were inspired by a real-life pagan sect that worshiped a god with horns.

The witch-cult hypothesis is a debunked idea that claims the Early Modern witch trials were an effort to repress a pre-Christian, pagan religion that had persisted in Europe after its Christianization. The witch cult, according to those who supported it, was centered on the worship of a Horned God of fertility, the underworld, the hunt, and the hunted, whom Christian oppressors referred to as the Devil, and whose adherents engaged in nighttime rituals on the witches' Sabbath.

Karl Ernst Jarcke and Franz Josef Mone, two German researchers, developed the theory in the early nineteenth century. Later that century, Jules Michelet, an American historian, Matilda Joslyn Gage, an American feminist, and Charles Leland, an American folklorist, all embraced it. The hypothesis was most famously explained by a British Egyptologist named Margaret Murray, who adopted it and published her version of it in The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) before expanding on it in works like The God of the Witches (1931) and her contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Although the Murrayite theory gained popularity in some academic circles and among the general public in the early and middle 20th century, experts on the Early Modern witch trials never agreed with it and openly disproved it in the 1960s and 1970s.

The pagan witch-cult notion is dismissed by experts in European witchcraft beliefs as being pseudohistorical. Academic authorities agree that the people convicted and put to death for being witches were not devotees of any witch religion, whether it be pre-Christian or Satanic. Critics point out that the idea was based on a very selective use of trial evidence, greatly misrepresenting the circumstances and the conduct of both the accused and their accusers. They also point out that it was based on the false premise that the accusations made by suspected witches were accurate and had not been corrupted by torture and coercion. They also point out that despite assertions that the witch cult survived the conversion to Christianity, there is no proof of such a pagan witch cult in the intervening Middle Ages.

The witch-cult theory had an impact on literature; John Buchan, Robert Graves, and