Cultivate Magic

Weird Wessex 2026 is a gathering for everyone fascinated by the mysterious, the magical and uncanny, the overlooked stories woven into places and lives. How certain landscapes, legends, histories and experiences shape the way we see the world. Tickets HERE

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Our Programme

'Finding the Goddess in the Wessex Landscape' Caroline Wise will introduce the  ancient female deities of Wiltshire, Berkshire and Somerset, like Epona who arrived with the Legions, and tracing those who were here before, following  Caroline's discoveries in the ancient astrological sign of Virgo linking white horses on land and in the stars above​.

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''Bastards, Baby-Farmers and the Near-Death of a Rural Idyll'  John Terry tells how the dark side of industrialisation in Berkshire led to psychic disruption, an armed siege, horrible consequences for families - and a new hope

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 "A Very British Witchcraft Drama: Witchcraft & Weirdness in 1950s-60s Surrey'  Melissa Seims, historian and author tells the sorry tale of two Surrey men, one  claiming that his strange carved wooden effigy was over 2000 years old, an ancient effigy of Atho - the Horned God of Witchcraft. The other man ran a herbal beauty balms business. How did their friendship end up in trespass, covert surveillance, newspaper exposes and ultimately a London High Court Case? Melissa introduces the bonkers and extremely  weird story of the Coven of Atho at a time when British Witchcraft was very much on the rise…

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'Pond Memories:

Stories of Ghost Laying in Oxfordshire' 

 

 Mike White, local folklorist and author, will be sharing tales of ghosts banished to  aqueous afterlives or submarine slumbers from across the county. Mike is well-known  around Wantage and Oxford for his regular –and very popular –

Ghost Walks

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'From Warminster to Westminster', Dr. Sue Terry will be delving into the British UFO phenomenon in its Wessex heartland in the  1960s -1980s, uncovering relationships between lights in the sky, weird encounters and ancient sites in Wiltshire, mysterious 'Men in Black' and the House of Lords. 60 years of UFOs later, what's changed, what do we know now and what's next?

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' Wessex Witches'  Vikki Bramshaw, historian and Chair of  the New Forest Folklore Society, will be discussing historical local witchcraft cases, who the witches were, what they did, introducing the folk magic practices and traditions of Weird Wessex. 

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'Finding the Lost White Horse of Inkpen'

When Bloomsbury came to Wessex...

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'Crop Circles: Ciphers in the Landscape'

A review of the latest crop circles from 2025-26 and a look back at the history of the phenomenon. Is it a language, an art or

inter-dimensional communication?

Featuring new aerial footage by Dave Crookall, drone pilot from Hungerford DCD 

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A screening of  'World War Witches',  by Carrie Kirkpatrick,  independent filmmaker and producer, taking us behind the scenes of her new drama documentary in development, telling the amazing true story of how a secret society of witches took on the Nazis in World War Two to help Churchill and the Allies win the war through a Magical Battle of Britain over the skies of Southern England - and in the Otherworld.

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Q&A  'Fireside Chat' 

a chance to  join  the conversation with our speakers, ask questions, or tell us about your weird , unexplained or uncanny experiences,  share your story that evokes the spirit of Weird Wessex - everyone's invited!

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      Note: final running order to be confirmed 

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Weird Wessex 2026 

landscape magic | black dogs I witchcraft | UFOs | folklore |

paranormal investigations | legends I

dark histories | white horses

ancient Goddesses I film I talk | meet

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site photos (c) S. Terry 2026

photos West Kennet Long Barrow,  Silbury Hill

image labyrinth (c) wix​

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Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances

Michelle Eve is not now able to join us ,

 but we look forward to welcoming her in future!

 

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