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by Donald McCormick

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  • ISBN: 0090022009
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  • Author: Donald McCormick
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Arrow Books (January 1, 1969)
  • Pages: 192 pages
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  • Rating: 4.9
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Murder by Witchcraft book. Who put Bella in the Wych elm? I've been fascinated with "Bella" (. The Hagley Woods Mystery) for a while now and was finally able to get a copy of this book through an inter-library loan.

Murder by Witchcraft book. Surprisingly, the other murder case discussed in the book, the Lower-Quinton murder, I found even more fascinating. I took some of this book with a grain of salt, but nevertheless, it was riveting.

ISBN13:9780090022007.

1. Murder by Witchcraft. Published by John Long, London (1968)

1. Published by John Long, London (1968). ISBN 10: 0090881702 ISBN 13: 9780090881703.

McCormick present the facts of the murders pretty much as the police found them

McCormick present the facts of the murders pretty much as the police found them. 3 people found this helpful.

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends. Murder by Witchcraft: A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders. Murder by Perfection: Maundy Gregory, the Man behind Two Unsolved Mysteries? London: John Long. Brunvand, J. H. 2000. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. Sex, Lies, and Hillsdale: How the Conservative College is dealing with the aftermath of a scandal. Weekly Standard, 29 November, 5(11).

Richard Deacon in his book, Murder by witchcraft: A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders mentions that there was . But for the people around Hagley Woods, the first two theories still held the most weight.

Richard Deacon in his book, Murder by witchcraft: A study of the Lower Quinton and Hagley Wood murders mentions that there was contact with an ex-Nazi called Herr Franz Rathgeb, who had spent time in the English Midlands during the war, and knew a German agent named Lehrer who had a girlfriend also working a German sp.

Murder By Witchcraft. London: Grafton Books, 1989. A History of the British Secret Service. London: Muller, 1969. New York: Taplinger, 1970. Reprinted in paperback, London: Grafton, 1991. Murder by Perfection: Maundy Gregory, the Man Behind Two Unsolved Mysteries?. London: Jarrolds, 1970. A History of the Russian Secret Service. New York: Taplinger, 1972. London: Muller, 1972. The Chinese Secret Service. New York: Taplinger, 1974. The Hell-Fire Club : the story of the amorous Knights of Wycombe.

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McCormick's reliance on an informal network of oral informants, and his eye for a good story, means that it is often difficult to judge the reliability of his more controversial claims. In 1979 he claimed that Rudolf Peierls had been under investigation as a Soviet agent, and was forced to make an out-of-court settlement when Peierls sued him. (The equally controversial Rupert Allason, who once worked for McCormick, has continued to press this particular claim after Peierls's death.


Reviews about Murder by Witchcraft: A Study of the Lower Quinton & Hagley Wood Murders (2):
Dorizius
Murder By Witchcraft was written in 1968 -- and it is as fresh today as it was then, 46 years ago. The reason is simple enough, the two murders detailed in McCormick's book have never been solved. The murders were committed in the Cotswolds district of the UK, less than forty miles apart. Both appeared to have elements of witchcraft associated with the deaths. In one, that of Charles Walton an aged hedge cutter (that was actually a profession in those days), the body was staked down with a pitch fork and marked with a witchcraft symbol. In the other, that of a young woman, the body was left to rot inside and ancient elm tree -- itself a symbol of witchcraft and believed to the site of sabbats held by local covens. Witchcraft was illegal in England until well after the Second World War -- and the fact that these murders took place during wartime is one of the factors that still provokes debate today. Back in the late 1960s writers were not making connections between the 'black' aspects of WWII and the occult. Winston Churchill's still largely secret organization to combat the Nazi occult work of Himmler's magicians and astrologers (known as The Watch) was at the time still a closely held secret. McCormick was one of the first to raise questions about this wartime project -- and he does so in Murder by Witchcraft. McCormick present the facts of the murders pretty much as the police found them. The reader will find the story fascinating -- and a great jumping off point for yet another effort to solve two of the coldest murder cases of the War. Be careful - witchcraft is alive and well in the Cotswolds!
Vuzahn
A most unusual but brilliant book focusing on tales of murder and ritual death related to witchcraft, which claimed the lives of 2 persons.
The first case that being of a Charles Walton, a 74-year-old man, murdered on the 14th of February 1945 in the sleepy village of Lower Quinton in Warwickshire.
He was found lying face up beneath a willow tree with his own pitchfork driven through his throat with such enormous ferocity, that the pitchfork near severed his head. The prongs of the fork had embedded the ground by a near 6 inches. It required the assistance of two police officers to remove it. His chest had also been slashed with his own billhook, leaving the markings of a large cross-shaped mutilation. The billhook had also been left rammed into his ribs.
The blood soaked ground could apparently even be viewed from aerial photography taken of the crime scene.
It was later suggested that the spilling of his blood was related to a traditional blood sacrifice where the ancient Druids held the belief that by doing so, a good harvest would follow.
The second case featured in the book, was that of an unknown woman found jammed down inside the hollow trunk of an old hollow wych-hazel tree.
Four teenage boys on the evening of April 18th, 1943, stumbled across this grim discovery after heading off that day to poach. The skeleton remains of a woman, her skull starring back at one of the teenage boys whom climbed up-it to investigate for bird's nests, could be clearly observed.
Later on during the investigation, it also became clear that the hand of this person was missing and subsequently found at another location nearby.
No mention of witchcraft was bought forward with this discovery, unlike the Charles Walton case where it had all the traditional markings of a ritual style sacrifice.
A person, or persons unknown began to leave messages at various locations of the West Midlands area. Those messages were carefully written in chalk and in 3-inch deep capital letters: 'Who put Bella in the wych elm?' they asked.
It later became apparent that the so called and now named 'Bella' had been put to death for some serious crime against a mysterious coven, thus linking the two cases together and bringing Donald McCormick's belief as being both homicides a case of 'Murder By Witchcraft'

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