Boscastle Witchraft Museum

[vampyresheep]

I was very much saddened, albeit not entirely surprised, to read this email regarding the damage caused to this museum by the recent flooding. 

Doubtless everyone's seen the news reports about the devastation of
Boscastle in Cornwall by flash floods yesterday.  Fortunately no-one was
killed, but the village has been badly damaged and parts of it have been
utterly wrecked.

One of the damaged buildings is the internationally renowned Museum of
Witchcraft, which was (and what's left of it still is) housed in a
building near the harbour.  Their library survived, but all the exhibits
on the ground floor have been wrecked, the front window blown (or more
accurately, sucked) out, and the staff were rescued from the upper
floor.  A lot of what was lost is irreplaceable, but even so the museum
is determined to rise again from the floods.

Doubtless there'll be a national appeal to help the whole village in the
next few days, but if any pagans, or pagan-friendly types are reading,
there's a separate appeal to rebuild the museum itself, details of which
follow (taken from a post to uk.religion.pagan):

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The United Kingdom Pagan Federation and The Children of Artemis are both
apparently going to set up a web page from their sites with online
donation links, but in the meantime any offers of help are to go to

Adrian Bryn-Evans at thecrowman@thehouseoftheoldways.fsworld.co.uk

any kind of offer is welcome; practical, administrative, financial
etc.... i gather the Museum's huge and unique library has survived
pretty much unscathed, which is something; but many exhibits are damaged
and in need of conservation. Thankfully it seems that no one in the
entire village was killed.

If you are remotely local to the area, please do NOT visit however. The
place is still locked down, no road (washed away), no electricity, no
fresh water, no sanitation, so the help needed is of longer term nature
and visitors are being discouraged right now; however well-intentioned
they may
be

there is a news feed at www.lashtal.com (and scroll down) to see latest
developments

The Museum is internationally-important, has helped many researchers in
their work, and thus deserves all the help we can offer