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Wicca and other invented traditions ; INTERVIEW ++ Historian Ronald Hutton delights in both debunking and celebrating paganism. His new study of the Druids will probably annoy their modern followers, but Gary Lachman finds him unrepentant
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When I met Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at the University
of Bristol, at the British Library, he had just come from lecturing
to a group of sixth formers at the Camden Centre. When I asked what
he had been lecturing on, he answered briskly: "Oliver Cromwell."
For an author who's just published a book on Druids, and whose
earlier work ( Triumph of the Moon, The Stations of the Sun,
Shamanism) centres on paganism, wicca, ceremonial magic and seasonal
rituals, this seemed fairly mild stuff.
"Did the students ask any questions about your other interests?"
I asked. "No," he replied, ...
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