FORTEAN FICTION: MAGICAL WAR

SYD MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE ESSEX WITCH MUSEUM MYSTERIES, ON THE INSPIRATION BEHIND HER NEW NOVEL

For her latest novel, The Grand Illusion, Syd Moore drew on the occult history of World War II and tales of witches waging a magical battle with Nazi Germany. Here, she tells how she found inspiration in Boscastle’s Museum of Witchcraft and Magic… I stumbled upon a reference to the ‘Cone of Power’ ritual, that allegedly took place in 1940, when I was researching another book, Strange Magic. On the hunt for the bones of Ursula Kempe, executed for witchcraft in St Osyth, Essex, in 1582, I found myself at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall interviewing the assistant curator, Joyce Froome, about the museum’s founder, Cecil Williamson, and the part he played in Ursula’s story. Before we met, I browsed the museum’s wonderfully eclectic collection. An…

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