“ This display consists of cleverly worked human bone finger rings. Sixteen sections of human bone strung on to a string and used for casting divinations. The hand of a dead man (a long story there), a wooden bowl with human skull fragments used for grating as you do with a nutmeg so as to produce a sprinkling of skull powder, and a corpse candle set in a small bowl of grave dust with an un-churched dead man's tooth. Horrible - you say - fiddlesticks. The witch of gallows hill would soon demonstrate to you how you can from such things learn to acquire a moral strength - develop a state of fearlessness and thereby gain a great peace of mind. All of which can be won simply by accepting and learning to live with the living dead.”

“Witches set up and maintain house shrines. Some acquire a skull as a spirit house and into it they conjure a friendly spirit. Well, this skull has a female spirit in it as a tenant and so why not make her pretty and give her a hat fit for a day out at a garden party. If you have a happy spirit around the house then you are sure of a happy home. Down Falmouth way there is a house with a skull in it, called George. Each night the owner sets up a glass of beer and a tobacco filled pipe for George before going upstairs to bed.”

“Quite a number of witchcraft operations call for drumming. So to drum up a spirit or a client is an everyday operation calling for a drum stick. A human arm bone makes a good drumstick and most witches have one around some place handy. For the drum, any flat surface such as a table top or upturned bucket will do.”

“Witches regard monkeys as being spirits in human form. So in the south west it is no surprise to find monkey skulls stored away in witches trunks and used in magic making.”

“This skull with a miniature dagger thrust deep into the left eye socket together with the half skull drinking cup and the wooden saucer holding a collection of old roman coins unearthed in Exeter, belonged to Eggy Roberts, stone mason by day and warlock and cunning man by night. Eggy 'bald head' Roberts went where there was work to be had and for choice liked working on church building and repairs. To earn a shilling or two from the sale of good-luck charms etc. He would draw attention to himself by producing the skull cup in a crowded public house and demand his beer be put into it. Then with a display of showmanship he would recite a poem extolling the virtues of death, drink up and re-order.”

“West country witches delight in sweeping magic in principle, this consists of either sweeping bad or good luck away from one to another place or person, or vice-versa, the witch's sweepers are formed from a wide range of natural materials. One of the most popular, having been in constant use down the centuries is a sweeper formed from goose feathers and goose fat.”