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	Montague Summers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Montague Summers was the youngest of the seven children of Augustus William Summers, an affluent banker and (A local magistrate with limited powers) justice of the peace in (additional info and facts about Clifton, Bristol) Clifton, Bristol.
		Summers was for a while part of the circle of the so-called " (additional info and facts about Uranian poets) Uranian poets," who celebrated ancient Greco-Roman (Sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner)) pederasty.
		Summers also joined the growing ranks of English men of letters interested in medievalism, (The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church) Catholicism, and the (Occult practices and techniques) occult.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/montague_summers.htm (873 words)

	Montague Summers
		Montague Summers was not a witch, far from it, he was a Catholic Priest and devoutly against witchcraft, however one feels that his contribution to the literature of witchcraft deservedly earns him a mention in any roll call of witches.
		A meticulous scholar and researcher, Summers disagreed with and ridiculed the theories of anthropologist Margaret A Murray, in that witchcraft was an organized religion in the Middle Ages.
		Summers sincerely believed that witches deserved all the punishments they received, he also believed that the confessions of many witches tortured and persecuted, were not the products of hysteria and hallucinations as many would advocate, but to be in the main: "hideous and horrible fact”.
	www.controverscial.com /Montague%20Summers.htm (1903 words)

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