Editing Witchcraft (section)

=== Modern paganism ===
[[File:Ceridwen.jpg|thumb|right|The sorceress [[Ceridwen]] of [[Welsh mythology]] is considered a Goddess in Modern paganism and Wicca.<ref>Ronald Hutton, ''The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft'', Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 192.</ref>]]
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During the 20th century, interest in witchcraft rose in English-speaking and European countries. From the 1920s, [[Margaret Murray]] popularized the '[[witch-cult hypothesis]]': the idea that those [[Witch trials in the early modern period|persecuted as 'witches' in early modern Europe]] were followers of a benevolent [[Paganism|pagan]] religion that had survived the [[Christianization]] of Europe. This has been discredited by further historical research.{{sfnp|Adler|2006|pp=45–47, 84–85}}{{sfnp|Hutton|2017|p=121}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Rose |first=Elliot |title=A Razor for a Goat |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |year=1962}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |title=The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles |place=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge, Mass.]] |publisher=[[Blackwell Publishers]] |year=1993}}</ref>{{sfnp|Hutton|1999|p=}}

From the 1930s, [[occult]] [[neopagan]] groups began to emerge who called their religion a kind of 'witchcraft'. They were [[initiation|initiatory]] [[secret society|secret societies]] inspired by Murray's 'witch cult' theory, [[ceremonial magic]], [[Aleister Crowley]]'s [[Thelema]], and historical paganism.{{sfnp|Hutton|1999|pp=205–252}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=A. A. |title=Crafting the Art of Magic, Book I: a History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939–1964 |place=Minnesota |publisher=[[Llewellyn Publications]] |year=1991}}{{ISBN?}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Valiente |first=D. |title=The Rebirth of Witchcraft |place=London |publisher=Robert Hale |pages=35–62 |year=1989}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> The biggest religious movement to emerge from this is [[Wicca]]. Today, some Wiccans and members of related traditions self-identify as "witches" and use the term "witchcraft" for their [[magico-religious]] beliefs and practices, primarily in [[Western world|Western]] [[Anglosphere|anglophone countries]].<ref name="Doyle White-2016"/>