Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Thank you for you comment Mustard, always appreciated. I may be wrong (I often am) but I thought that whilst we don't know for certain witchcraft and magic were practised as a 'set of beliefs' we do know that the knowledge and practice of herbal healing (and poisoning for that matter) was often condemned as witchcraft.

The programme 'A Very British Witchcraft' seemed more about Occultism which was alive and well around London when I lived there with bookshops such as Atlantis and Skoob (then near the British Museum) as meeting places. I had a close friend who worked at Skoob and my first ever visit to Avebury and Wayland's Smithy was because there was a spare seat going on the coach trip from London. I always respect other people's beliefs if genuinely held but when someone (as happened on that occasion) starts talking about bringing on the demise of an adversary by casting spells in their direction - I did not want to know, then or now.