Oh, and while I'm at it, you shouldn't kid yourself or anyone else that Hutton is sympathetic to the view that there's any efficacy in magic -
Astralcat wrote:
as for the efficacy of magic ? Ronald Hutton himself is respectful and sympathetic these days as a result of his studies.
He might be sympathetic to Wiccans but he actually describes Wicca as formed by modern people to express modern myth, which is the exact opposite of believing in magic.