In Search of the New Forest Coven (eBook)

Philip Heselton (Autor)

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2020 | 1., First Edition
318 Seiten
Fenix Flames Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781913768010 (ISBN)

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In 1954 a book was published which claimed that witches were not just some historical oddity but that the author, retired civil servant, Gerald Gardner, had been initiated into a witch coven in the New Forest, Hampshire, England in 1939.Many dismissed his claims, but Philip Heselton, who has been investigating the story for over 20 years, is convinced that what Gardner wrote about the witch coven was essentially true.He has found that the New Forest coven was started by a group of esoteric students in the early part of the 20th century who believed in reincarnation and that they had been witches in a previous lifetime.Philip Heselton has uncovered the likely membership of the coven and has brought them to life as never before.

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Contents

Illustrations

Picture Credits

Author's Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 The Witch Cult

2 A Witch called Dafo

3 Masons in more ways than one

4 Ernie Mason - The Magus

5 Dissent at Harmony Lodge

6 Bringing Pythagoras to Christchurch

7 Rose of the World

8 The Man with too many names

9 Vacuna in Sussex

10 From Sussex to Dorset

11 Highcliffe - Wellspring of the Wica

12 Herbs and a Herbalist

13 Dorothy - One of the Old Sort

14 The Protectress

15 Katherine Oldmeadow - Writer of Faery and Forest

16 An Occult Imagination

17 Witchcraft and Encounters on the Common

18 Elspeth Begg and Witch Ancestry

19 Irene Lyon-Clark, Druidry and the Sword of Nuada

20 The Emergence of the Rose

21 Witch Blood, Reincarnation and the Birth of the Witch Cult

22 "The Most Wonderful Night of my Life"

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Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Gerald Gardner • modern history • Occult • Paganism • Religion • Religious History • Spirituality • Wicca • Witchcraft
• ISBN-13: 9781913768010 / 9781913768010