Harmony

Studies in Folk Life

Essays in honour of Iorwerth C Peate.  Edited by Geraint Jenkins.

Unnatural Murder

Includes information about Simon Forman.

Kon-Tiki, Ra, Aku-Aku

Three books in a box.

The Romany Good Spell Book

Journal of Illustration

Includes a visual essay by Hayley Potter on pages 253-277, Arts University Bournemouth on “Drawing to Discover the British witch”.   Hayley researched this project in part at the Museum …

The Kingdom of Dumnonia

A Medieval Herbal

Jesus of Nazareth

the author, Pope Benedict XVI seeks to ‘restore’ Jesus’s reputation from recent ‘popular depictions’. Seeks to reveal Jesus’s true identity as discovered in the Gospels

The Devils of Loudon

Urbain Grandier was burned at the stake at Loudon, France in 1634 accused of being a sorcerer responsible for the possession by devils of a whole convent of nuns Huxley’s …

Old Devon

10 studies concerned with the history of Devon old farmhouses & Bartons Industrial Archaeology Elizabethan Merchants of Exeter Epidemics of Tudor Devon the farm labourer through 4 centuries  

Shaman

Shaman inspired art  

Houdini

Houdini’s (Ehrich Weiss) life and death, including his opposition to the Spiritualist movement his illusions and escapes, including nude cell escapes    

Boscastle

Visitor guide to Boscastle area, covering history, culture, geology and wildlife Thomas Hardy Minerals and rocks Flora and fauna of the Atlantic Shore Churches and chapels

Highland Folk Ways

Ancient customs, crafts and techniques of the Scottish Highlands the clothes, cooking, utensils, weapons, fishing, farming and building of our ancestors placed in historical context Clansmen and crofters the author …

The North Coast of Cornwall

North Cornwall in the late 19th century, its countryside, sites, people and their work Social Historyand folklore of North Cornwall Morwenstow, Bude Bay, BoscastleTintagel, Pentire, St Enodock, Padstow, Mawgan Porth, …

The Hedge

A book of poetry and personal thoughts

Of Shadows (Hardback)

Hardback publication of photographs depicting objects from the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic. Donated by Author

Bede – Ecclesiastical History of the English People

written in AD731, the first account of Anglo Saxon England ever written From Julius Caesar’s invasion in 1st Century BC through Kings, Bishops, Monks and Nuns who helped develop government …

The Radical Tradition

The role of selected saints in improving justice and promoting peace. Their place in the development of history from well known saints to the virtually unknown edited by Gilbert Markus, …

The Holy Thorn Reliquary

Made to house a single thorn believed to be from Christ’s crown of thorns at his crucifixion, this 30.5cm gold and enamel reliquary, decorated with precious stones was commissioned around …

101 Cornish Lives

101 Cornish people who are, or should be famous Brief biographies of Cornish people who have made significant contributions in one way or another: saints, heroes and villains

Saint Joan of Arc

Jeanne D’Arc, biography, detailed history and miracles examined born 6th January 1412, burned as a heretic 30th May 1431, canonised as a saint 1920  

The Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse

Anthology of English Traditional Verse, the literary constituent of traditional, or folk song from high ballads to minor songs largely created by ‘working class’ communities and handed down the generations …