A Guide to Occult Britain

by John Wilcock

John Wilcock, world traveler, author of more than thirty travel guides, and editor of the Witches Almanack, has compiled a comprehensive guide to occult sites in Great Britain. He describes his journey of research as 'a pilgrimage to awaken lost memories, a journey to rediscover lost wisdom: the occult fire never went out and continues to flicker through legends and allegories, symbols, and sites'.

Stonehenge, Avebury Circle, Arthur's Seat above Edinburgh, Glastonbury, the Lligwy Burial Chamber on the Isle of Anglesey, and the tumulus of Knowth are just a few of the ancient sites along with innumerable burial mounds, hill forts, fairy circles, green men, and dragon carvings whose mystery John Wilcock has revived in this unique guide.

The author has designed his magical tour around five major routes which take the reader through the South, the West (Devon and Cornwall), Wales, the North (up the east coast, Scotland, the Scottish Isles and down the west coast) and London.

Routes have been devised to take the mythologist and occultist through the maximum number of sites in any one area, and specific directions are listed for easy access to each of the individual sites.

Genres: Occult, British Literature

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1971

Reviews

[Alexis]

This looks at regional oral histories, locations, mythology, and some archaeology. It is a wonderful book written in a very personal fashion. The copy I found has great personal notes by the person who had obvioiusly used it when travelling around Scotland.

I enjoyed the section on Cornwall a great deal.