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Eric Maple (1916–1994) was an English folklorist and author known for his studies of witchcraft and folk magic in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Essex, in particular his first-hand research into the folklore surrounding the cunning men James Murrell and George Pickingill.

Born in Essex to a family of Kentish ancestry, his mother was a Spiritualist medium.{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}} Having little formal education, he has been described as a "self-made man".{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}} In the early 1950s, he discovered the scholarly field of folkloristics, and decided to use a folkloric methodology to explore the folk stories of his home county.{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}}

This resulted in the publication of four research articles in Folklore, the journal of The Folklore Society: "Cunning Murrel" (March 1960), "The Witches of Canewdon" (December 1960), "The Witches of Dengie" (Autumn 1962), and "Witchcraft and Magic in the Rochford Hundred" (Autumn 1965).{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}} The folklorist Alan A. Smith would later describe these papers as "a perhaps unique contribution to the literature of English witchcraft. Totally jargon-free, they are the raw stuff of folklore, stories told by real people about still remembered (reputed) witches and their doings."{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}} These articles and others would be reprinted in Essex Countryside^[1]

in a series, "Legends of the Essex Witches".

He then embarked on authoring a wide range of books about folklore and the supernatural for a popular audience, which proved sufficiently financially successful that he became a full-time writer.{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}} However, these books eschewed any academic standards, with Smith noting that they lacked "the strength" of his earlier papers in Folklore.{{sfn|Smith|1995|p=87}}

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1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.hadleighhistory.org.uk/page_id__47.aspx | title=Cunning Murrell Bibliography | publisher=Hadleigh & Thundersley Community Archive | accessdate=12 December 2014}}

Bibliography

{{cite contribution |first=James W. |last=Baker |contribution=White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy |title=Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft |others=James R. Lewis (ed.) |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany, New York |pages=171–192 |year=1996 |isbn=978-0791428900 |ref=harv}}

{{cite book |title=The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft |last=Hutton |first=Ronald | authorlink =Ronald Hutton|year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=0-19-820744-1 |nopp=|ref=harv}}

{{cite news |title=Response to Pickingill Article |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |year=2014 |journal=The Cauldron |volume=153 |page=6 |issn=0964-5594 |ref=harv}}

{{cite book |title=The Pickingill Papers: The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft |last1=Liddell |first1=W.E. |last2=Howard |first2=Michael |publisher=Capall Bann |location=Chieveley, Berkshire |year=1994 |isbn= 978-1-898307-10-5 |ref=harv}}

{{cite news |title= The Witches of Canewdon |last=Maple |first=Eric |year=December 1960 |journal=Folklore |publisher=The Folklore Society |location=London |volume=71 |number=4|ref=harv}}

{{cite book |title=The Dark World of Witches |last=Maple |first=Eric |year=1965 |origyear=1962 |publisher=Pan Books |location=London |ref=harv}}

{{cite journal |title=In Memoriam: Eric Maple, 1916–1994 |last=Smith |first=Alan A. |year=1995 |journal=Folklore |volume=106 |publisher=The Folklore Society |location=London |page=87 |ref=harv |doi=10.1080/0015587x.1995.9715897}}

4 : 1916 births|1994 deaths|English folklorists|Folklorists

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