Williamson, Cecil H
Williamson, Cecil H.
British occultist who claimed the power to conjure spirits by ritual magic. He was a graduate of Malvern College and spent some time as a tobacco planter in Rhodesia. During World War II he was in the British Intelligence Service. An expert on witchcraft, he is proprietor of a museum of magic and witchcraft known as the Witches' House, situated in the small Cornish village of Bocastle, England, near Tintagel. The museum was originally based at Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswold countryside, but closed about 1966. Williamson was formerly an associate and friend of witchcraft revivalist Gerald B. Gardner, who also ran a Museum of Magic and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man.
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