Cecil Williamson’s Book of Witchcraft | A Grimoire of The Museum of Witchcraft

Cecil Williamson’s Book of Witchcraft | A Grimoire of The Museum of Witchcraft  by Steve PattersonTroy Books In 1996, whilst helping the then new owner Graham King in refurbishments to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Steve Patterson happened upon a handwritten manuscript entitled simply ‘Witchcraft’ and containing an intriguing potpourri of esoterica from the hand of the Museum’s founder; Cecil Williamson. It is this manuscript which provides the basis for Steve’s book which includes a full annotated transcript of the ‘Witchcraft’ manuscript, a history of Cecil Williamson and the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, a treatise on Cecil Williamson’s vision of traditional Witchcraft – the practices and the philosophy of the wayside witches, an account of his meetings with Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner, and a controversial account of his witnessing of the birth of ‘Wicca’. The book is both a valuable reliquary of practices for the traditional witch, and a resource for folklorists and