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...become popular worldwide, and the historian of Paganism, Ronald Hutton, has famously described Wicca as ‘the only religion which England has ever given to the world’ (1999, p. vii). Figure 7 Witches dancing in circles around a fire performing a ritual, 1964. In this section, you are going to follow Wicca from its emergence (or re-emergence), through its growth and...

...become apparent, Western music theory does not even begin to account for the diverse range of musics in the world. Nevertheless, certain broad similarities are shared by many of these musics, including the existence of pitch systems and intervals. This section and those that follow consider the number of pitches in various pitch systems, then the intervals between those...

...becomes unrecognisable. At the very least, it might be thought that the concept of demonic possession implies control by an external agent. If so, schizophrenia is just not the right sort of thing to be demonic possession. In the same way, if someone offers an answer to the ‘what is…’ question, we can ask whether they have offered an account of what emotion is, or...