Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic crone Deep within the winding corridors

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

The reigns of Athelstan

Offering an experiential guide to reconnecting with the Sidhe and our inner ElvenHeart

and use magical techniques to find love and prosperity

sits Cernunnos

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic crone Deep within the winding corridorsIn 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