witch cult

English

Noun

witch cult (plural witch cults)

  1. (As proposed by Margaret Murray) a covert pagan religion believed to have persisted across medieval Europe, devoted to an ancient fertility god and persecuted by Christianity as witchcraft.
    • 1931 January 9, The Recorder, Port Pirie, SA, page 4, column 3:
      People who read of the old witch-trials would be horrified to come upon the witch-cult persisting in modern England.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 251:
      The Middle Ages were permeated by the witch cult. Witches were consulted by love lorn maidens and swains, of all ranks and degrees.
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