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Wikipedia's article on Margaret Murray, the Egyptologist and folklorist whose witch-cult hypothesis proposed European witch trials targeted a real surviving pagan religion, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as her academic career, and less reliable for evaluating her own hypothesis, which mainstream historians have thoroughly rejected as unsupported by the trial evidence she used. Use it for basic biography; a claim about the witch trials themselves needs an independent historical source rather than Murray's own theory.

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3
Wikipedia's article on Margaret Murray, whose witch-cult hypothesis proposed the witch trials targeted a surviving pagan religion, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard biography and less reliable for evaluating her own hypothesis, which mainstream historians have thoroughly rejected as unsupported by the trial evidence she used.
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Wikipedia's article on Margaret Murray. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Margaret Murray (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray
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Claims Backed By This Source (62 claims)

This source backs 62 claims across the atlas. As facts: 61 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Historical Figures, 55 claims: 54 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
  • Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.

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61

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1

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