For her latest novel, The Grand Illusion, Syd Moore drew on the occult history of World War II and tales of witches waging a magical battle with Nazi Germany. Here, she tells how she found inspiration in Boscastle’s Museum of Witchcraft and Magic…
I stumbled upon a reference to the ‘Cone of Power’ ritual, that allegedly took place in 1940, when I was researching another book, . On the hunt for the bones of Ursula Kempe, executed for witchcraft in St Osyth, Essex, in 1582, I found myself at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall interviewing the assistant
