Murder by Witchcraft

A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders

by Donald McCormick

Arrow Books, 1969, black and white photographic plates, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, creasing and small tears to cover and spine, remainder line at bottom foredge (see photographs)

“On St. Valentine’s Day 1945, near Lower Quinton in Warwickshire, the body of an elderly hedge-cutter was found pinned to the ground by a hayfork – a killing which, with its undertones of witchcraft, strangely echoed another mystery which began two years previously with the discovery of a skeleton in the hollow of a tree in Hagley Wood, less than forty miles away.
IN Murder by Witchcraft, Donald McCormick reveals that these tow bizarre cases – though distinct and separate – had one thing in common: a pattern of clues which suggest an element of witchcraft.  To explore the surprising history of witchcraft in the Cotswold countryside, McCormick turns detective himself and produces evidence of covens which gathered at night around the Roll-right Stones and of the use of Black Magic as a psychological weapon in the Second World War.”