Margaret Murray’s theory of the historical origins of the Horned God has been used by Wiccans to create a myth of historical origins for their religion. The depiction of this deity is similar to that given in Murray’s writings. Murray having seen the drawing called Breuil’s image “the first depiction of a deity”, an idea which Breuil and others later adopted. Also they believe in every human having the capacity to be a prophet, every human action to be prayer and all consequences as revelation from God, claiming that practical experience inspires true faith and skeptics are the same holy persons as prophets. There are various verses of the Holy Quran in which parents are strictly prohibited to misbehave with their daughters. There is little doubt that the rejection of Vedic authority by Buddhist and Jain thinkers encouraged the reformulation and strengthening of particular aspects of Vedic traditions and the reassertion of the authority of Brahmins. Despite widespread criticism of Murray’s scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters. The “father of Wicca”, Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray’s thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion. Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray’s theory.

Outside of works that predate the publication of Murray’s thesis, horned god motifs and characters appear in fantasy literature that draws upon her work and that of her followers. Murray’s central thesis that images of the Devil were actually of deities and that Christianity had demonised these worshippers as following Satan, is first recorded in the work of Levi in the fashionable 19th-century Occultist circles of England and France. This, along with the general public’s increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ‘horned god’, and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray’s hypothetical horned god of the witches. But the argument over whether such a strategy can establish the existence of God began well before Kant’s time.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil’s Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man’s progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft. Malala’s story reminds us that culture is about the way individuals and societies define what the ideal ‘good’ is and the extent to which individual citizens like Malala, the global networks inspired by her story, and even those like the Taliban who oppose this vision are willing to campaign for what they consider to be cultural rights. For Peter, a part-owner of Counter Culture Coffee, coffee was the place in the world where he thought he would fit in best. 46) instances a case which was said to have taken place in the open day. The 2015 film The Witch, which takes place in 17th century New England during the latter end of the early modern inquisition against witchcraft that swept across Europe, deals with an interpretation of the Horned God, which takes the form of Black Phillip, the family goat.

Breuil considered his drawing to represent a shaman or magician-an interpretation which gives the image its name. 23-4 the earliest evidence claimed, Murray based her observations on a drawing by Henri Breuil, which some modern scholars such as Ronald Hutton claim is inaccurate. Murray also used an inaccurate drawing of a mesolithic rock-painting at Cogul in northeast Spain as evidence of group religious ceremony of the cult, although the central male figure is not horned. In the fantasy novel Too Long A Sacrifice by Mildred Downey Broxon (1981), a male character, Tadhg, is an avatar of a benevolent Horned God. The 1995 fantasy novel The Wild Hunt by Jane Yolen features a supernatural being named the Horned King, who resembles the Horned God, as the novel’s antagonist. In June 1986, the comic book 2000 AD published the first part of a serial story called Sláine and the Horned God, written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Simon Bisley. Based in Celtic mythology, the Horned God is identified with Cernunnos and is the primary antagonist in a story rich with antagonists.