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Cursuswalker C
Cursuswalker Apr 12, 2007 12:04:53
Replying to Wild Wooder

Wild Wooder wrote:
A bit off thread here, but I'm currently reading Ronald Hutton's Triumph of the Moon, a history of modern pagan witchcraft. Very highly detailed and a bit slow going but also very interesting. I shall eventually finish it.
Hutton's approach is one I love.

The "Macrocosm" section of the book is heavy going but is essential for the whole context of Wicca in the second "Microcosm" section..

L Littlestone
Littlestone Apr 12, 2007 12:50:51
Replying to Cursuswalker

Hutton's approach is one I love.
Yup, me too - he's also a very nice bloke.

Not sure if The Druids is out yet CW. http://www.continuumbooks.com/Authors/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Search/default.aspx&CountryID=2&ImprintID=2&AuthorID=146887 gives a publish date of 21 May but maybe that's just for the States. Amazon say they have it in stock and it's in the spring catalogue of The History Guild (selling there for £15.99 as compared to the RRP of £19.99).

M moss
moss Apr 12, 2007 13:59:13
Replying to Cursuswalker

He's a very good writer, saw him at a lecture last year pulling apart the goddess theory; a gentle man is how I would describe him fascinated by his subject. Had some problem with giving the lecture, getting over a brain tumour I think he said, but he said he could'nt hear very well because of it. Which is completely off the subject but Stuart Piggott also wrote a good book entitled "the Druids" 1968 I think which gets back to the subject...