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Dec. 20 But Men Were Witches as Well - A Grey-Haired homely little woman, approaching eighty, and a little over four feet tall, held a London audience spellbound last night while she talked about witches. She was Dr. Margaret A. Murray, a former professor of Egyptology of the University of London, who has made a life study if witches and their habits. It was not Genneraly relaised, she said, that there were men as well as women witches. Witches rode on broomsticks, but not in the air as was commonly supposed. It was a ritual riding during which they jumped up and down on their broomstick just as a child does on a hobby horse. The women rode on broomsticks, the men rode on pitchforks. The audience largely women, thoroughly enjoyed being given attacks of gooseflesh by Dr. Murray. She told them about the melting of wax images, the distilling of potins from toads, the calling up of grent storms at sen by conjurings with cats, and the making of lying ointments with bat's blood and soot. Dr. Murray explained that the So-Called witches of the past were the remains of the old pagan religion which had persisted for some time after the introduction of Christianity

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