Antique Witchcraft Italian WITCH carving Murgatroyd Witches Fred Gettings

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Antique Witchcraft Italian WITCH carving Murgatroyd Witches Fred Gettings :
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Italian Witch Grotesque Wooden Page Turner - Murgatroyd Witchcraft CollectionLate 19th century / early 20th century wooden Italian page turner in the style of a grotesque / witch - probably used for turning the pages of a grimoire..From a collection by David Murgatroyd, a Yorkshire witch whose family name is synonymous with necromancy and the black arts. He was the author or two posthumously published books following his death in the early 1980s. One, THE SHADOW OF THE GOLDEN FIRE, traces his family\'s magical lineage through the nineteenth-century occult revival back to the witch mania of the seventeenth century. It also includes sections on ritual magic, based around an an alleged hand-written magical treatise by Michael Scot (1175 - 1232) a medieval mathematician and astrologer, and the writer of various occult treatises.The second book is entitled KNIGHT OF THE RAVEN, and features the supposed exploits of Murgatroyd\'s distant ancestors in medieval Eastern Europe. Although unsubstantiated, David Murgatroyd was allegedly familiar with Aleister Crowley and even claimed to possess certain of Crowley\'s magical artefacts, according to Fred Gettings. It is quite probable that many of the items for sale remained in Murgatroyd\'s family for generations.The Murgatroyd Collection consists of items specifically used for ritual and necromantic purposes. However, in some cases their exact function can only be guessed at, a matter which we have discussed with their previous owner Fred Gettings, who obtained them as a complete collection from David Murgatroyd\'s executors following his death.Fred Gettings was a famed artist, historian and occultist who wrote under the names David Ovason and Charles Walker. Sadly he passed away in 2013. SEE MY LISTINGS FOR MORE OCCULT ITEMS AND MURGATROYD WITCHCRAFT