SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FRIENDS MEMBERS ONLY.

On May 18th & 19th The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic will be holding it’s yearly Conference.

Details of tickets and how to purchase them are on the flyer above.

They are £25.00 and can be paid by PayPal by adding [email protected]
This is a pre advance booking notice for Friends Members ONLY.

Tickets for the general public go on sale in a week.
Please contact the Museum itself if any questions regarding this booking. Thank you.

Email: [email protected]
or
Telephone: 01840 250111 (within UK)

Friends Admin

This year, talks will be focused around Isobel Gowdie:

Betwixt and Between
Isobel Gowdie, the Witch of Auldearn

I shall go into a hare,
With sorrow and sych and meickle care; And I shall go in the Devil’s name,
Ay while I come home again.

On April 13th 1662, a woman called Isobel Gowdie gave the first of four confessions, witnessed by the ministers of Auldearn and Nairn and at least twelve local lairds and church elders.

What led to Isobel being hauled before the magistrates is unknown but what makes her so remarkable is the content of her testimony.

Never before were such vivid and complex descriptions recorded giving insight into seventeenth-century witchcraft and fairy belief.

This exhibition does not set out to describe the details of Isobel’s life, which are all unknown, or to detail the times in which she lived. Instead we present a poetic meditation on various aspects of the confessions.

Tales of shape-shifting and transforming into a Hare, of riding on horses made from straw while flicking ‘elf- shot’ from her thumb to destroy her enemies.

Of feasting beneath the Downie Hill with the King and Queen of the fairies and of orgiastic coven meetings with the devil.
All of this and everything Betwixt and Between.

If you have any questions regarding this Conference or how to book, please contact the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic itself or email them on :

[email protected]
or
Telephone: 01840 250111 (within UK)