European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse By John p. Gale a staff writer when the Bones of Jenny number Stone were found in 1901. Britai was both shucked and intrigued. For Jenny was said to lie the victim of n blur magic rite or orly two centuries Ufler her , the wife of a country surgeon died on Jan. A. 170, at the a of 22.she was buried in n deep Brick lined vault it lonely in Lull churchyard in . The Bucks of the vault prevented her Liones from Roll Iii away. On March 17 of last year visitors to the mined Clophill Clin Reli discovered her Skull impaled on an Iron slake in Sale the West door of the Church. The res of the Skeleton a. Arranged around the concluded the Church had been used for a i Lack mass. They la Orin d this probably had taken place a week before on Murli 10the night of a Lull Moon when witches Are sup posed to some scholars wagged Ihei Heads so optically. Churchmen demurred Anil he editor. Francis of a Lead ing journal of Para psychology. Tomor Row commented "1 Don t think it was a Black mass or anything resembling there arc people seriously inter ested in this sort of thins they Don t court publicity and icy Don t leave evidence around for the police or any one last judicial execution for Wilshi Craft in Brilain is Iho Likht to have Laken place in 1722. When an old woman was burned As a Witch at Llor Nock. Scotland. Thirteen years later will Craft ceased to be u criminal offence and has remained he was pressed in the House of commons last november for a modern ban on witches. Home scr car Henry Brooke told legislators it is not in my mind 228 years inter to bring in fresh legislation on the Are according to the Best Avail Able estimates about 7.000 witches male and female in Britain. The Cen trial secrets of the old Moon cult have been beyond doubt Are the existence in Britain of numerous covens the Basic unit of witchcraft. Ideally comprising 13 thrive mostly in the country where their existence was noted several years ago in a report to the British medical association Bra a Devon physician said witchcraft was widespread in his Rural practice lie added i had one definite death from witchcraft or i suppose 1 should say suggestion while 1 was Black watch cd or satan Sis Are regarded As a troublesome minority. To these have been attributed the blood sacrifices Drunken orgies obscene rite Sand churchyard desecration which Are periodically featured in the popular newspapers. Whether these charges Are Well founded u open to we Catly who has written Many books with an occult background told the associated press ninety per cent of Black manic Practised in this country is Mambo jumbo or crookcry."1 would say Only about 10 per cent is authenticated fact. Certainly i am Satis fied by the evidence that there is a form of Devil worship operating. I have Hadron Many letters from genuine people magistrates doctors clergymen and so Forth to doubt comparatively few of he satanists have any real Powers. A to of this churchyard stuff tearing up of Tinb Pogi 12 stones is Basic hooliganism. When you hear of a Fertility rile conducted deep in the heart of a lonely Forest. It s prob ably just a Bunch of kids out on their motor bikes on a saturday night Jam subscribes to the belief that chunks have ased Back magic rituals for blackmail. Curious novices arc drawn into some Plumy cult Anil become the victims of a tuition on threat of sex. lilith an oils throw some Light on what happens at an Assembly of witches of the benevolent kind. The Circle is drawn and fire in some form usually a Candle is placed Onan altar set in the Middle. The Circle is supposed to contain the Power aleut to be raised by invocation of the old Pagan gods. Willies believe their own bodies Are reservoirs of this Power and have a personal electric Field. They Are therefore naked. A leading part in the Cere in nov is played by a High priestess or Maiden. Incense is used and wine i drunk two glasses says Oik contemporary account rather print the Central mysteries of the Cere Mony remain unrevealed. But the White wit Clies scorn suggestions thai the Rit Ual is either sacrilegious or an excuse fir orgies in the contrary it is claimed the ceremonies Are highly Ili Cip lined and that sacrilege has no bearing on the Issue since Chri Mialy is antedated by the Pagan n such claims Are made for the Lilack mass the ceremony that police suspected wat conducted around the Hows of Lenny Hambe Slone. According to folklore. I gather before the High altar of a t or Klein Church. It is mid night the witching hour and this is the coven a Sei Blou for Devil worship. Incantations sound foreign an Peculiar. 11 is the mass chanted backwards by the blasphemous Faith i Lack candles Burn on the altar. A priest officiates. He is disgraced defrocked and now owes his allegiance Lothe Devil. No Witch has yet gone on record with sup kit for this kind of s Black magic spate continues unabated. A Pic is found strangely slaughtered in Surrey Throat Slit and Ixida carrying 30 Stab wounds. The Heads of six cows and a horse Are found in Awood in Bedfordshire. The eyeballs have been Cut in half the Jawbone wrenched Are moved in three sus sex Church urls. Black candles Are left burning. On the Queen s estate at Sand Ringham in Norfolk a sheep s hear pierced by five thorns is found inside a ruined Church. Nailed to the Bell Tower is the six Inch effigy of a nude female figure Thorn through its heart. It is said to be a crude death Charm. All this has happened in the last two years. The weight of evidence suggests that Black magic cannot be ruled out in every Case. But who will find out for sure said author Wheatley out of Long experience "1 have made a Rule never to dabble the first Slaw you get interested. Then your work suffers and then you family suffers. In the last stage you go off your nut. I think there Are a lot of people in Lunatic asylums in that category. They arc Dork foreboding Side of witchcraft it displayed at Bourton on the water England. The stars and stripes en9lish Witch s hut 400 years old Hai a Parrot fish shrivelled Skull Odd signs. Saturday
