Description
In the last century and before, many Cornish people believed in witchcraft and in the opportunity of being cursed or ‘unwell-wished’. This book, which centres on more than one newly came upon newspaper articles, demonstrates how deeply the belief in unwell-wishing was once held, and the levels of desperation and fear it could engender.
It shows the existence of a lot of magical practitioners, known variously as cunning folk, conjurors, white witches, pellars and fortune-tellers, many of whom are named again for the first time. Their powers were more than a few, but they
nearly all claimed so as to prevent, or reverse, the effects of witchcraft.
