DVD – Legend of the Witches and Secret Rites

£15.00

To accompany our 2025 exhibition ‘Circle of the Wise’ about the Alexandrian Tradition, this DVD is ‘An eye-opening exploration of the occult’.

Malcolm Leigh’s X-rated quasi-documentary Legend of the Witches is an imaginative depiction of pagan rituals as they were supposedly practised at the dawn of the downer decade. Sharing the secrets of initiation into a coven, divination, ritual scrying, the casting of a ‘death spell’ and a chilling black mass, it also visits Boscastle’s  Museum of Witchcraft, celebrates Britain’s pagan heritage and pays tribute to the perennial power of the witch.

Part mondo movie, part counter-cultural artefact, Secret Rites is a side step towards documentary territory by notorious exploitation stalwart Derek Ford that purports to lift the veil on witchcraft-as-lifestyle-choice in 1970’s Notting Hill. Mystery band The Spindle provide psychedelic sounds while groovy hairdresser and tentative occultist Penny is initiated into the coven of Alex Sanders, who features prominently in both films

Footage ranges from 1924 – 1970.

Rated 18  

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