Exhibits Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
model of cunning woman @ museum
in keeping williamson s original plan, of exhibits in museum feature artefacts related historical folk magic , cunning folk. includes room recreates tradition cunning woman s cottage, termed joan s cottage , mannequin of nineteenth century cunning woman, surrounded various herbs , divination tools. museum contains exhibits devoted witch trials in modern period, modern pagan religion of wicca, other esoteric practices such ceremonial magic, freemasonry, , alchemy. there small case on modern religious satanism, in distinction drawn between , modern pagan witchcraft.
a number of artefacts in collection owned prominent figures in history of magic , witchcraft; contains ritual chalice used thelemite magician aleister crowley, talismans created gerald gardner, , ritual swords , altar slab formerly owned noted wiccan alex sanders. museum s collection of artefacts continues grow new acquisitions. many contemporary practitioners of witchcraft , magic have bequeathed working tools museum in wills. according anthropologist helen cornish, exhibits in museum work build narratives illustrate witchcraft on time, , situate significant force in present .
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