The Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, England!!
One of the most unusual attractions in all of the United Kingdom is the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle Cornwall. It house the world’s largest collection of witchcraft related artifacts and regalia. It is one of the most popular attraction in all of England.
It was originally located in Castleton on the Isle of Man by neopagan Witch Cecil Williamson. Back then it was called The Folklore Center of Superstition and Witchcraft. The original home was in an old mill known localy as the Witch’s Mill. He also opened an adjoining restaurant called the Witch’s Kitchen.
The museum was bought by an employee and then fierce rival known as Gerald Garnder. Gerald Gardner was a prominent witch who has headed a few cults and written many books about witchtcraft. Gardenr ran the museum until 1964 when he died and then it was bouth by Ripley’s Entertainment. Ripley’s Entertainment renamed it to be The Museum of Witchcraft. After a couple of bad seasons the museum was opened in 1954 in Bouroton-on-th-Water in Goucestershire, and then in 1960 to Bocastle. It was then sold in 1966 to a man named Graham King whose hobby was digging up dead women accused of witchcraft in the fifteenth century and giving them a decent burial.
In 2004 the Museum was hit by a bad storm and almost half of it slid into the ocean. Still it has managed to remain open until this day.
The museum is known for it’s many exhibits. The exhibits it is known for are ones devoted to the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, Horned God, Mother Goddess, Divinaton, Stone Circles, Cunning Fok, Protective Charms, Mandrakes, the Church of Satan and White Witchcraft. The museum also has a very large collection of rare books on witchcraft including a scrapbook that originally belonged to Doreen Valiente.
There are many interesting objects to see at the museum, some of it more innocent that others. There are a lot of Staffordshire figurines in the place depicting Mother Goose and maidens having their palms read. There are slabs of rocks with labyrinths on them, statues of horned gods and engraved copper plates.
Objects that are less innocent that are in the colectin include a wood handle sickle with black magical symbols and a wooden witch mirror with carved symbols into which you are to gaze and see a ghost or a spirit standing behind you. There is also a witch’s bottle which is a brown ceramic bottle that was filled with stones, pins and hair coral to curse someone!