witch cultとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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witch cult (plural witch cults)

1. 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.