Witch To Perform
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LONDON, February 6. A self-styled “queen of the witches,” Mrs Monique Wilson, will unveil a local council’s memorial plaque marking the spot where the last witch was burned at the stake on the Isle of Man. But she will not wear her witch’s robes at the ceremony in Castletown market square on Thursday. “The witch and her infant son were burned at the stake in our market square some time in the seventeenth century,” said the clerk to the
council at Castletown, Mr R. E. Blackburn. “We decided, as we have our own resident witch in the person of Mrs Wilson, that she should be invited to perform the unveiling ceremony.” Mrs Wilson, aged 40, is high priestess of the Castletown coven of witches. She and her husband, Campbell, went to live in Castletown two years ago after she had been left a substantial bequest, including a cottage and a museum of witchcraft.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 2
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158Witch To Perform Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 2
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