Wood blocks from 1720

New Acquisition

We have been lucky to recently acquire these two incredibly rare woodblocks, originally used to illustrate The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720. John Crabb, author of Graven Images: The …

Waking the Witch, touring exhibition

  The museum has several objects on loan to a new touring exhibition. ‘The British Isles have a particularly strong relationship to magic and the occult, with the chants of …

A Week of Halloween Curiosities, London

Simon will be promoting the museum at a talk in London on the 30th October at the Town Hall Hotel. Other speakers will be Professor Ronald Hutton — The History …

Spellbound at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

We are delighted to announce that we have several items from the museums collection in this new exhibition in Oxford at the prestigious Ashmolean Museum. ‘Explore the history of magic …

A Venture Into the Occult: My Internship With the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Hi! My name is Aleksandra and I have spent the last month working here at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. I study liberal arts with a major in history …

Newberry Library: help needed with 17th Century Magical Text

Newberry Library are asking members of the public to transcribe the manuscript, which can be read here: http://publications.newberry.org/dig/rc-transcribe/charms It is a commonplace book, compiled by Robert Ashley (1565-1641).  In addition to …

Performances at the Museum this week

On Wednesday 15th August at 7.30pm, there will be an opportunity to see WITCH, an original play written for performance at the Museum.  The first ever play to have been …

Iconic objects on show

Several months ago Simon flew to Ireland to meet with friends, Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. Janet had kindly decided that she would like to pass on two iconic items …

Sneak peek at our new door!

Here’s a link to an interview with the artist Paul Atlas Saunders.  He has been busily creating a fantastic door that will greet people as they enter the Museum, to …

Dramatic performances at the Museum coming soon!

For the past few years, we have been delighted to have dramatic performances at the Museum created and performed by our friends at Circle of Spears productions (a Devon based …

Letter from Cecil Williamson

We received a letter in the post which included a much older letter.  A visitor to the Museum had written to Cecil Williamson (Museum founder) in 1985 about labyrinths and …

Guidebook now available for our 2018 exhibition

We are pleased to say that a guidebook is now available for our 2018 exhibition “Dew of Heaven: Objects of Ritual Magic.”  The guidebook is available for just £3 and …

“Beware of Bats” by Enora Boivin

Above, a painting by David Teniers the younger of a witch and a bat-headed demon. Pursuing my quest of archiving documents written by Cecil Williamson, I came across few documents related …

New novel about the influence of Crowley in Cornwall

Our thanks to Andy Bailey for generously donating several copies of the new book “Martin Dayton” to the Museum.  With his permission, we plan to keep one in the library …

New additions to the Museum library

The Museum library has over 8000 titles in it.  This includes DVDs, VHS, audio, magazines, journals and books, books, books!  You are very welcome to book some time in the …

Museum objects in York exhibition

If you aren’t able to visit the Museum in Cornwall, a selection of our objects will be on display in York’s Barley Hall run by the York Archaeological Trust.  Their …

Midsummer event appears in local papers

Our Midsummer event on June 23rd has received a lot of attention online and is now also in a couple of our local papers. This is from this week’s Cornish …

Museum library is home to a ‘witch’s familiar’ this week

We are really pleased to have Rob Sherman’s innovative interactive project with us in the Museum library this week.  Here Rob writes about his first day:  “There’s a cloying, candlelit …

NO WIND, NO WAVES by Enora Boivin

This piece was written by Enora, our lovely intern from Brittany in France.  She has been with us for nearly two weeks now and has helped out in all sorts …

Expansion of Prediction Magazine collection

Recently, a lovely person donated a large bag of magazines to the Museum.  As a result, we now have a much larger collection of Prediction magazine in the Museum library.  …

Joan Wytte “The fighting fairy woman of Bodmin” by Baxter Lawley

Baxter Lawley has completed his work experience with the Museum this week.  Here is his blog about Joan Wytte: In the 1800’s Joan was arrested and died in jail however …

New Museum Mug!

It took us a while (lots of technical issues with the production company which we won’t bore you with here!) but the Museum has a new mug for 2018! It …

Straw Art for Lammas

As you may know, we change our window displays regularly to be in harmony with the seasons and to offer our visitors an understanding of the turning of the Wheel …

Generous donation of bracelets, hagstones and leather items

So many people do so many lovely things for the Museum and we can’t thank them enough for all the little ways that they contribute.  Over the weekend, we received …