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Issue 10 Autumn 2023
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Articles A Froome with a View - Joyce Froome ‘A poor wisht mortal’: examination of a dialect term - Rupert White Moon, Magic and Myth - Frances Billinghurst Give us good harvest! Ritual vs The Wicker Man - A. Nother Peller Patricia Kopinski and Alex Sanders: a brief love affair? - Melissa Seims and William Wallworth A Grimoire of Scrying - Sandra Huber Hexhibition - Christine Sefolosha & Cathy Ward Lifting Manannan’s Cloak: Witches, Fairies, and Gerald Gardner on the Isle of Man (pt.2) - John Callow The Good Shepherd in Norfolk - Alice Kerridge-Crick Legba - Louise Fenton and Adam Kissira Modern Survivals of Old Beliefs - L.J. Dickinson (1917)
Interview Dan Harms on magic, magical manuscripts and witch bottles - Rupert White
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Issue 9 Spring 2023
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Articles Wood lore: from Kingley Vale to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic - Helen Cornish The Slúagh Sidhe of Samhain: Rediscovering pagan soul flight - Ben H. Gagnon “By Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”: Christian Elements in the Making and Manipulation of Curse Dolls - Martin Duffy Home Rites - Cathy Ward My love affair with the Burney Relief - Daniel Bran Griffith Lifting Manannan’s Cloak: Witches, Fairies, and Gerald Gardner on the Isle of Man Pt1- Dr John Callow Angelic Discipline: A Foucauldian exploration of Restriction in the Abramelin - Alejandra Villegas Whispers and Images from Dumblecott - Melissa Seims Cornwall’s Midsummer Bonfires - Rupert White Monica Sjöö: Mother-in-Love - Annie Johnston St Osyth Witchcraft and Cunning - Alex Langstone Pilgrimage along the Mary Line: Re-enactment - Sarah Hartnett and Lucy Stein Two Devonshire Curses - R. Dymond (1876)
Interview Ceri Houlbrook on coin-trees, love-locks and witch-bottles
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Issue 8 Autumn 2022
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Articles Travels of a Folk Saint: A Transnational History of Santa Muerte - Nicole Spitzer Breaking Boundaries: Choosing to meet the World Soul - Ian Chambers The Magick and Mystery of Maurice/Margaret Bruce - Melissa Seims Wearing my last skin: Leonora Carrington’s ‘My Mother is a Cow’ - K.A. Laity The Britton herb collection at the MoWM - Rupert White Go tell it to the Bees - Christine Iverson North Sea Water in my veins - Imelda Almqvist What colour is three o’clock? Ithell Colquhoun and synaesthesia - Richard Shillitoe Petrosomatoglyphs - Alex Langstone Monica Sjöö: Spirit Mother, Earth Weaver - Una Hamilton Helle Zombies in the Golden Age of Hollywood - Dr Louise Fenton
Interview Prof. Owen Davies on Cunning Folk, Grimoires and Folklore today
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Issue 7 Spring 2022
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Articles Rocky Valley Labyrinths: an invitation to cross the threshold - Helen Cornish Literary Witches of the
Twenties: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes and the Loving
Huntsman - A For Sale Notice: Thigh Bone Trumpet - Ben Fernlee An Gwyr Erybyn an Bys: Chairs, Rounds and Circles in Bardic Cornwall (continued) - Alan M. Kent Bessie Brooks’ Divination Mat - Ash William Mills How Cornish was the witchcraft of the Cornish Witchfinder, William Paynter? - Rupert White Taking the Cunning Across the Pond - Elwynn of The Antlered Crown The Coven of Atho, Doreen Valiente and Alex Sanders - Melissa Seims The Hound of Abnoba - Ryan McClain The Evolution of Haitian Vodou - Dr Louise Fenton Wartime Charms - Kirstie Ryder Footsteps of Former Men:
Holacombe - Revd. Robert Hawker (1870)
Interview Steve Patterson on Gwithti an
Pystri & The Museum of Folklore and Magic |
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Issue 6 Autumn 2021
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Articles The Saltmarsh Devil of Old Essex - Alex Langstone A Manx Legacy - Melissa Seims The Mystic, the Hare-Cursed Witch and the Cunning Man: Mary Webb’s Contribution to Esoteric Literature - Dr Rebecca Beattie Spirit of the Hedgerow - Sarah Hartnett & Lucy Stein Cornish Charms: origins and originality - Rupert White Witchcraft on Vinyl - Melanie Xulu An Gwyr Erybyn an Bys: Chairs, Rounds and Circles in Bardic Cornwall - Alan M. Kent “But ghosts and witches still walk …”James Wentworth Day – collector of folkloric tales from the East Anglian landscape - Steve Patterson Liber Spirituum (and a magical memoir) - Paul Huson
Interview Gemma Gary on Cecil Williamson, Bucca & Morvoren
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Issue 5 Spring 2021
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Articles Wisdom from the Wilderness: Using the Fae to Re-enchant the Landscape in a Time of Crisis - Francesca Bihet The Herb and the Lady under the Elder at Noon: Analysis of an Early Modern Magical Ritual - Dan Harms Action Stations: the film career of Cecil Williamson - Rupert White Horse Brasses: their use in Divination and Spellwork - Kate Collison Gerald Gardner’s four books of Wicca - Steve Patterson Relics of the People: Ossuary Remains in Post-Medieval European Folk Practice - Tom Farrow A Curious Discourse - Melissa Seims All Hallows and Allantide: A glimpse into the customs and folklore of a Cornish Halloween - Alex Langstone Black Mass at Clophill? - Kevin Gates Occult and New Age Spirituality Bookshops as Sites for the Production and Exchange of Rejected Knowledge in the UK, c. 1893 - c. 1993 - Dr. Shai Feraro Covid-19 Diary - away from Pilgrimage - Lucy Stein & Sarah Hartnett
Interview Philip Heselton on Earth Mysteries, Gerald Gardner and the New Forest Coven
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Issue 4 Autumn 2020
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Articles The Sasabonsam of the Asante - Marti Dean Goddess in Cornwall 2000-2020 - Cheryl Straffon Pilgrimage along the lesser travelled Mary Line pt2: Lostwithiel to Glastonbury - Sarah Hartnett & Lucy Stein The Easthorpe Witches, Essex Folk-Magic and the Sheela-na-gig - Alex Langstone Disorientated in time, place and person: Ithell Colquhoun’s unpublished occult novel Destination Limbo - Richard Shillitoe The Three Hares Project - Dr Tom Greeves A Little Frog: Transference of disease in The Wicker Man - Rupert White Pious Pixie: The Life of Pamela Colman Smith - Dawn G Robinson A curious tale of Odin and his horses in a Devon Churchyard -Tony Whitehead ‘Nerdcraft’: Witchcraft, Witch-Hunts, and the Occult in Dungeons and DragonsTM - Julia Hall Cursed and haunted dolls at Greyfriars Kirkyard – Dr Louise Fenton Untitled (photo-feature) - Gemma Gary & Jane Cox
Interview Ronald Hutton on Cecil Williamson and rewriting Wicca
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Issue 3 Spring 2020
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Articles Ithell Colquhoun’s Magic of the Living Earth - Amy Hale Celtic origins of gnomes in the Netherlands - Wilmar Taal Snowshill - The Unfinished Tarot Clock - Mark Hewitt A Ghost Laying in Welford, West Berkshire - Ian Miller Anger’s Letter - Rupert White Hauntology, the Numinous, the uncanny and the labyrinth of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic - Steve Patterson Horsewitchery: a brief sojourn into the magical connection of man and horse - Iain Marshall Pilgrimage along the lesser travelled Mary Line: Carn Les Boel to Crowan - Lucy Stein & Sarah Hartnett The Witches’ Tarot - Simon Wood The Devonshire Devils: The Necromantic Experiments of Humphrey Gilbert and John Davis - Phil Legard A Tale of Two Poppets - Louise Fenton
Interview Jo Carson on Ferafaria and the film ‘A Dance for the Goddess’
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Issue 2 Autumn 2018
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'A Froome with a View' - Joyce Froome Articles The Cunning-Folk’s Chrismon? Reginald Scot’s Eight-Armed Seals - Phil Legard The Viking Völva or Wise Woman - Cecilia Orning Some notes on witchcraft from Mrs. Batson’s Welford Scrapbooks - Ian Miller ‘Peller’ and related terms: an analysis of two-hundred years of newspaper articles - Rupert White
The Cunning Folk of The Witch Sticks of Finchingfield - Alex Langstone Very Superstitious: The William James Clarke Charm Collection - Jennifer Dunne
Remembering Eric Maple - Iain
The Influence of J.H.W. Eldermans on Bob Richel - Wilmar Taal Shades of the Craft in Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Walter C. Cambra
Where did all the Magic go? A
sideways look at the impact, or otherwise, of the Norman Conquest on
magic in The Alexandrian Witchcraft Online Archive and Timeline - Sharon Day The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: What a Victorian Magician needed to know to become an Adept - Elaine Bailey A Closer Look at Object Number 2741, a Talisman or Amulet of Mars - Alexander Cummins Objects Created by ‘a Student while under Instruction by Aleister Crowley’ aka the Steffi Grant Collection - Judith Hewitt
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Issue 1 Autumn 2017 (Edited by Peter Hewitt)
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‘A Froome with a View’ - Joyce Froome The Spider Web Articles Steve Patterson - The Mystery of the ‘Witchcraft Research Centre’ Rupert White - This Charming Man: F.T. Nettleinghame and his Piskey-empire Graham E. Hill - A Neolithic stone idol found in Cornwall The Chattering Magpie, Summoner of the Hearth of the Turning Wheel - Banishing, Binding and Cursing Melanie Xulu - The Mass Hexing of Donald Trump: A Brief History … Object of Interest - Hillary Clinton DollAlan Jones - Reclaiming the Magician Samantha Southern - ‘A Letter to Nathaniel Higginson’ Joshua Rushton - Reading Love Magic in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Cases of Lucrezia the Greek and Andriana Savorgnan Rebekah Elvidge - A Journey into Paganism Peter Hewitt - Collecting and fashioning magical objects with Cecil Williamson |
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instructions to authors: If you wish to contribute to the next issue of The Enquiring Eye, please submit your article via email to the editor rupertwhite1@gmail.com or by post to The Enquiring Eye, Museum of Witchcraft & Magic, The Harbour, Boscastle, Cornwall PL35 0HD. We have a few guidelines:
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The award-winning Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (MWM) in Cornwall, which was first established in 1961, explores British magical practice, making comparisons with other systems of belief, from ancient times to the present day. It aims to represent the diversity and vigour of magical practice respectfully, accurately and impartially through unique, entertaining and educational exhibitions, drawing upon cutting-edge scholarship along with the insights of magical practitioners. |
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editor: rupertwhite1(at)gmail.com
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