Archives and Cornish Studies Exhibition

It’s been a week since the opening of our new exhibition ‘She Cares: Women and Health’ in Cornwall. Have you been to see it yet?

Part of our exhibition explores witches and wise-women. Before modern medicine, healthcare was usually provided by wise-women as part of an ancient, spiritual culture.

They continued to help people and animals until the 20th century, when the number of wise-women and witches practicing in Cornwall began to decrease.

We have two modern-day witches featured in our exhibition – Cassandra and Laetitia Latham-Jones, who are village wise-women and witches in St Buryan.

Here they are photographed performing spellwork at the full moon, Lamorna Cove.

by John Isaac

I also constructed a charm and wrote an article about how to go about creating one, that is also on display.

Cassandra and I visited Kresen Kernow on the 12th August 2023