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The Woodman and Witchcraft

January 2, 2015 4 Comments

GUEST BLOG BY GARETH J. MEDWAY From the 1960s onwards there have been witchcraft rituals held in Queen’s Wood, Highgate, at the site of the plague pits known as Churchyard Bottom, or, nowadays, as the Witches’ Circle. Those involved normally meet up at The Woodman public house at the junction of Archway Road and Muswell

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Queens Wood Hallowe’en Special from Oracle TV

November 2, 2014 No Comments

Hello all!  Lots of pics of the Muswell Hill Geisterfest to come soon, but in the meantime, tune in tonight (Sun 2nd Nov) at 8pm to Oracle TV’s Hallowe’en Special, when Carrie Kirkpatrick and her guests – including David Farrant, Gareth J. Medway and Seldiy Bate will be discussing the mysterious history of Queens Wood,

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‘Coven’ – The Jury’s Still Out.

January 13, 2014 1 Comment

Incase you haven’t heard, a new movie set and filmed in Queens Wood and other parts of Highgate, has just been completed. Directed by John Mackie and starring Dexter Fletcher, ‘Coven’ promises to be a rather formulaic fright flick, replete with screaming teenage girls legend-tripping at night in a location known locally as at best

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A Response to Eleanor Cobham – The Witch Who Would Be Queen

December 2, 2013 No Comments

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it was quite common for people to be accused of practising black magic, when the real motive was political.  In 1310 Pope Boniface VIII (who had died in1303) was posthumously charged, by Philip the Fair of France, of having commerce with a demon.  The actual reason was that the

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The Witch Who Would Be Queen – Eleanor Cobham & The Bishop’s Lodge at Highgate

October 31, 2013 3 Comments

In the 15th century, a black mass allegedly took place in Highgate which could have altered the history of the monarchy today. Today the site of this rite, where wax figures of the king are said to have been melted in the fire, is a harmless golf course. But why was Highgate chosen as the

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Lauderdale House

October 18, 2013 No Comments

The secretion of a hoard of objects in a hidden compartment at Lauderdale House, a mansion dating from 1582 which is situate in Waterlow Park, Highgate, lends itself not to the question of WHETHER witchcraft was practiced there – but by who and when. The discovery of these artifacts took place at some stage between

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The Ancient Pound On The Mound

October 8, 2013 4 Comments

A curious passageway of note in Highgate lies slightly to the north west, and beneath, the Hillcrest estate. Now a modernised cut-through between Broadlands and Talbot Roads, Park House Passage takes it name from the mansion of the same name which once stood on the looming bulwarks now occupied by Hillcrest. To the folkloric and

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