{"id":9099,"date":"2018-03-12T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2018-03-12T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:51:23","slug":"come-out-and-fight-me-for-my-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9099","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Come Out and Fight Me for My Throne . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 512px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9099-1\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/farrars.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/farrars.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/farrars.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. . . says Janet Farrar melodramatically in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2017\/1017\/912938-wexford-witches\/\">this 1977 broadcast from the Irish national network Raidi\u00f3 Teilif\u00eds \u00c9ireann.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author and screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/exhibitions\/895-halloween\/287624-witches-on-liveline\/\">Stewart Farrar and his wife Janet<\/a>, both from London in England, met through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2016\/1028\/827511-witches-and-witchcraft\/\">witchcraft<\/a> and founded their own coven. In 1976 the couple moved to Ireland, accompanied by Janet\u2019s father Ronald Owen, and they now live in the townland of Rockspring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2016\/0126\/763030-the-early-early-show\/\">Ferns<\/a>, County Wexford. On the whole they have been warmly welcomed to the area by Catholics and Protestants alike.<\/p>\n<p>Witchcraft is growing in Ireland and Janet, the Witch Queen of Ireland, challenges usurpers to come out and fight her for her throne. Until then, Janet is a natural clairvoyant and both she and Stewart can help people who have had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/2013\/09\/piseog-the-curse-of-the-irish\/\">piseogs<\/a> worked against them. She once wished ill on a man and when she told him to be quiet, he lost his voice for 48 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was at that house a year or two later (and borrowed that typewriter), and I don&#8217;t remember the theramin music everywhere outdoors, so the producers must have added because they, like the Brits, just love the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=967\">TV trope of the scary countryside<\/a>. With witches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; . . . says Janet Farrar melodramatically in this 1977 broadcast from the Irish national network Raidi\u00f3 Teilif\u00eds \u00c9ireann. Author and screenwriter Stewart Farrar and his wife Janet, both from London in England, met through witchcraft and founded their own coven. In 1976 the couple moved to Ireland, accompanied by Janet\u2019s father Ronald Owen, [&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":[88,50,6,29,12],"class_list":["post-9099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britain","tag-ireland","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2mL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8126,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8126","url_meta":{"origin":9099,"position":0},"title":"Demons! 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