"witch cult" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1931 January 9, The Recorder, Port Pirie, SA, page 4, column 3:",
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          "ref": "1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 251:",
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        "a covert pagan religion believed to have persisted across medieval Europe, devoted to an ancient fertility god and persecuted by Christianity as witchcraft."
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