Ancient Egyptian Legends

Margaret Alice Murray retells Egyptian stories and religious tales in a concise, readable form, making important myths accessible to general readers. Historically significant as an early popular treatment by a respected scholar, the book offers narratives, commentary, and a window into how Egyptians imagined the gods, the world, and human destiny.

Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963) was a British Egyptologist and folklorist whose work became influential in the study of Western esotericism. Although her historical reconstruction of a surviving pagan witch-cult is now widely disputed, it played a major role in twentieth-century occult and witchcraft literature and in later interpretations of European magical traditions.