Speakers at AGM

This year's AGM & Get Together will be held November 19th 2011 at The Wellington Hotel Boscastle.


Speakers are:


Tabitha Cadbury  Collecting Magic


 Tabitha says ~ My talk will focus on one aspect of the Museum of Witchcraft's collection, the everyday charms & amulets used by ordinary folk attempting to 'accentuate the positive' & 'eliminate the negative' in their lives. The objects in question include rubbing stones, moles' feet, WWI soldiers' amulets & Neapolitan glass charms. Using images of similar objects in museums all over England, I will point out how Cecil Williamson's collection interconnects with these through the late C19th & early C20th folklore movement & through collectors such as the prominent London folklorist Edward Lovett. Who collected these powerful things, & how have their meanings changed over time?



Tabitha Cadbury is a museum curator & researcher. She studied anthropology & world arts & has worked for the British Museum, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Royal Albert Museum in Exeter & the Scarborough Museums Trust. She is an active member of the Museum Ethnographers Group & currently a Curator of Human History at the Plymouth City Museum. She is planning a doctorate on charms & amulets collections.

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Elayne Hoskins Folklore on Film
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Steve Patterson  The Magic of Boscastle
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Simon Costin  Museum of British Folklore Update


Saturday Evening Musical Entertainment
Boscastle Buoys
and hopefully Tros en Treys TBC

Friends AGM & Get Together

'Friends' should, by now, have had the latest newsletter which announces the date of this year's AGM  & Get Together which is November 19th at The Wellington Hotel in Boscastle. Speakers are Tabitha Cadbury (Folk Charms), Steve Patterson (the Spirit of Place - Boscastle) & Elayne Hoskins (film show of folk traditions). There will be music in the evening TBA. Our Chair Judith Noble will be stepping down, as per the constitution of 6 year's maximum in post, so members will be voting on a new chair.

Glastonbury Witch Market

If you're in Glastonbury October 1st please come along to the Witch Market in the Town Hall between 930am & 5pm - there will be 47 stalls selling great gifts for Yule & beyond. The Occult Art company, who specialise in Museum items, will be there. In the evening there is entertainment as follows:

A Mystical Evening of Magical Music

Eleanore and the Lost Serpentyne

Matthew Callow, Jamie Black

Admission £10

Tickets available from http://www.themagicaltimes.com/glastonbury

All profit is being donated to the Museum of Witchcraft