WEAVING THE PAST

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A Dynamic Historicity of Witchcraft in Britain. Despite conflict, magical practitioners rejected long held claims to continuity, and took new strategic positions more closely aligned with the interpretations by academic historians that acknowledged the modernity of the current movement. However, magical practitioners simultaneously continued to acknowledge mytho-poetic, emotional and experiential connections to the deep past. These sit alongside revisionist and rationalist explanations of a modern movement. The achievement of this tactical, dichotomous position reveals the legitimising power of rationalist history-making and