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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

Kresen Kernow

An article by Cornwall Live (April 2023) about the recent publication of my book Be Careful What You Wish For. Read it here

I was interviewed to discuss the season of Spring Equinox in 2021. It begins 4 hours and 18 minutes into the program. Chaos TV

Cornwall Woman Podcast- Interview October 2018

It was in the above article that a journalist incorrectly wrote “It is one of Laetitia’s duties as a Wise Woman to “tease” Penglaz the Penzance ‘Oss“. This mistake gave the Golowan committee a reason to dismiss Cassandra and I from their festival back in 2010.

When it was brought to the attention of the newspaper who printed the article the journalist wrote a retraction the following week:

“The Cornishman would like to clarify that Laetitia Latham-Jones was invited to become a Teazer because of her background as a member of the Wolf’s Head and Vixen Morris group. It is not one of her duties as a wise woman to coax the Oss.”

Despite the retraction by the journalist, the committee did not lift the ban.

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