Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic crone and use magical techniques to

and use magical techniques to find love and prosperity

sits Cernunnos

The authors introduce and explain each of the respective themes of the 12 nights

Deep within the winding corridors of Boscastle’s Museum of  Witchcraft and Magic

has a dedicated chapter outlining who they are

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic crone and use magical techniques toIn the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials from early modern Britain we frequently find detailed descriptions of intimate working relationships between popular magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form. Until recently historians often dismissed these descriptions as elaborate fictions created by judicial interrogators eager to find evidence of stereotypical pacts with the Devil. Although