West Country Witches Witchcraft Deep within the winding corridors

Deep within the winding corridors of Boscastle’s Museum of  Witchcraft and Magic

& Holy Basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum)

award-winning author and artist Brenda Jones offers detailed advice on how to identify

Katie Anderson

and are allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of the more secretive practitioners of the Craft

West Country Witches Witchcraft Deep within the winding corridorsAuthor; Michael Howard n 1930 a correspondent writing to the Western Morning Post newspaper confidently asserted 'We live in an age when those old twilight beliefs are disappearing'. The beliefs in question were various aspects of popular superstition and the supernatural once widely accepted by people in the West Country. In response to this assertion, a correspondent called Padely Silvanus said he lived on the border of Dartmoor and could introduce