AUTHOR · PERSON
Doreen Valiente
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Es a la vez testigo y auditora del movimiento del que formó parte, y esa doble condición es lo que la hace citable en las dos direcciones: Hutton la describe como investigadora por derecho propio y «an important witness in herself» «Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019) · p. 263».
Lo que mejor la retrata es que sus dos hallazgos mayores apuntan en sentidos contrarios: destapó como falsos los títulos que Gardner se atribuía «Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019) · p. 264», y estableció la existencia real de Dorothy Clutterbuck, a quien se daba por inventada «Hutton — The Triumph of the Moon (2.ª ed., 2019) · p. 264».
Valiente · Ameth
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Works attributed to this actor
with the type of each attributionValiente — The Rebirth of Witchcraft (1989) [DECLARED]
About the author
7 entries — what others say about them«Janet and Stewart Farrar collaborated with Doreen Valiente between 1981 and 1984 to make the first analysis of the key ritual texts» — el trabajo de análisis de los textos rituales, con sus fechas.
«In addition, Valiente conducted research of her own, and was an important witness in herself, as a major personality in the development of modern witchcraft» — su doble condición: investigadora y testigo.
«She has been proved beyond doubt to have had an actual existence; by Doreen Valiente, who has revealed her to have been born in India in 1880, her father being an officer in the Indian imperial army» — lo que su investigación estableció sobre Dorothy Clutterbuck, a quien se daba por inventada.
«He provided many extra details to Doreen Valiente, including the vital one that the power was raised by frenetic dancing and chanting, and that it was these exertions which had proved fatal to many of the older people» — el testimonio que recogió sobre cómo se levantaba el poder.
«She lived near Christchurch, and Doreen Valiente, who met her in 1952, found her ‘an elegant, graceful lady with dark hair» — y su testimonio directo de 1952.
«It came from the pen of a remarkable woman, Margaret Alice Murray of University College» — cómo presenta a la autora de la tesis que hereda.
«Dr Murray’s main career was that of an Egyptologist, and her interest in witchcraft was really a sideline» — y qué lugar le da en su obra.