Leo Ruickbie is an historian and sociologist of magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a Master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the Open Source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily available by releasing them under a Creative Commons licence. In 2008 and 2009 he exhibited on the subject of witchcraft in France.
British sociologist
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British sociologist
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Parapsychology, Ghosts, Haunted places, Supernatural, Animals, mythical, Biography, Children, Children in literature, Children, folklore, Faust, -approximately 1540, Good and evil, Great britain, description and travel, Magicians, Mass media, Popular culture, Sociology, Spiritualism, World war, 1914-1918, ZoologyPeople
Faust (d. ca. 1540)ID Numbers
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