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katiemorgan77's review
Kind of hard to follow, didn’t know where the subject was heading half of the time, just not for me
ovvlish's review against another edition
4.0
This book was a bonkers ride. Totally understandable how it inspired so many neopagans, but also totally absurdly not in line with modern understanding of the past and of so many disparate pieces of evidence that Dr. Murray brought to bear for her thesis. Loved it all tho, what a ride.
crowyhead's review
2.0
Well, er... This is entertaining enough as the potential basis for a fantasy novel, but as far as actual scholarship goes, it's pretty lacking. Murray's theory that there was some kind of unified pagan religion in Europe prior to the advent of Christianity is iffy enough (I don't doubt there were pagans, but I don't think it was anything as widespread and organized as she seems to believe), but when she posits that Joan of Arc and Thomas a Beckett were pagan sacrifices, things get pretty wacky.
noticiasdelimperio's review against another edition
3.0
say what you want about margaret a. murray but she single-handedly invented the genre of "youtube conspiracy theory" and where would we, as a species, be without that?
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