{"id":5908,"date":"2013-08-06T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2013-08-06T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:13:33","slug":"british-witches-of-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5908","title":{"rendered":"British Witches of 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos of the<a href=\"http:\/\/sighswhispers.blogspot.com.au\/2011_10_01_archive.html\"> coven headed by Eleanor &#8220;Ray&#8221; Bone. <\/a> Possibly from the weekly magazine <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tit-Bits\">Tit-Bits<\/a>. <\/em>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eleanor_Bone\">Wikipedia entry about her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, you could wear a white shirt and tie in circle, if you came straight from the office, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember, witches in England were hung, not burned during the Early Modern period, the height of the witch trials.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos of the coven headed by Eleanor &#8220;Ray&#8221; Bone. Possibly from the weekly magazine Tit-Bits. Here is a Wikipedia entry about her. In 1964, you could wear a white shirt and tie in circle, if you came straight from the office, I suppose. (Remember, witches in England were hung, not burned during the Early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1xi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4927","url_meta":{"origin":5908,"position":0},"title":"The Basic Split in Pagan Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"December 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"? Just one of many presentations from the just-finished online conference\u00a0 Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North. Here, Ross Downing deals with such issues as whether witchcraft and Heathenry were defined differently in the time of King Alfred the Great in the late 9th century, including details as the execution\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Anglo-Saxon England\"","block_context":{"text":"Anglo-Saxon England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=anglo-saxon-england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=867","url_meta":{"origin":5908,"position":2},"title":"Teen Witches and Sociologists","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self, a sociological study of young Pagan Witches, will be shipping in a few days from Rutgers University Press.I have heard co-authors Helen Berger and Doug Ezzy give presentations from their research, which is excellent.From the Rutgers University Press catalog:As Helen A.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8830,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8830","url_meta":{"origin":5908,"position":3},"title":"Mystery Deity in Hitler Hex","author":"Chas S. 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