Witchcult in Egypt, the Margaret Murray experience (Egyptian Magick Podcast)
Channel: Egyptian Magick Podcast
Date: 2023-05-11

“Someone, I forgot who, had once told me that the witches obviously had a special form of religion, ‘for they danced around a black goat’.” as told to Margaret Murray around about the time of her health retreat in Glastonbury. And so Murray heard the call of the horned piper. 

Several years later, after much research she published her groundbreaking book The Witchcult in Western Europe in which she made the startling claim that the Witches of Europe worshipped Baphomet ! Well, almost. As any Egyptologist would know, talk of black goats immediately suggests the myth of the famous “Goat of Mendes”, Mendes being the Greek name for Djedet in the Egyptian Delta where god Amun, “the mysterious one” was worshipped. 

Which neatly leads us into the topic of Witchcraft in Egypt, and her extraordinary experiences