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I was reading about odd goings on in Clapham Woods, near Worthing in West Sussex back in the 70's and 80's and how one man stumbled upon some Hekate worshippers who were not too fond of him.A great (x3) grandma of mine was born in Worthing so I was interested. I obtained the difficult to get hold of book entitled The Demonic Connection second hand. The book is fairly standard and there was a long red hair in it! I bought the book 'Tales of occult Horror about six or seven years ago and that mentions Clapham woods too.
Devil Worship In Britain ( another second hand book) is a very early work published in 1964 but obviously written before Gerald Gardner died, as it mentions his 'Witches Mill', then on the Isle Of Man. Peter Haining was a good writer and I have several of his books but this book, by him and A V Sellwood tend to allude to all magic as 'black magic', which was probably a sign of the times it was written in. It mentions the church at Clophill, near Luton, UK which was used for certain practices.
I bought the ghost sightings book because I used to go on holiday with my parents to Whitby as a teenager and have seen Whitby Abbey many times. I found a hidden gem though concerning a policeman who disappeared in 1972 somewhere near Clapham Woods. There is an old paranormal show which has a segment about a dowser who searched for him which is mentioned in the book.
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