Cassandra Latham-Jones is a British

witch Witchcraft is the use of magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. According to ''Enc ...

. She lives and works in the small community of

St Buryan St Buryan () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1412. The village of St Buryan is situated approximately west of ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

. She is notable as being the first person in the UK to have registered her occupation as ''village witch'' with the

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in the year 1996. Her services were especially required by hospital patients. Within one year she was having so many requests for her services that she became a self-employed witch and was no longer financially supported by the government. She was previously a

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member of the

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as vice president overseeing campaigning. In the late 1980s Latham was a student at the experimental

Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...

, where she completed a bachelor's degree in theatre. Before enrolling in this program she had served as a nurse, caring for the builder of the

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, Rowena Cade in the last years of her life. Cassandra's business partner Laetitia utilises

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, Indian Head Massage and

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. She also has a certificate as a

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and Crisis and Trauma counsellor specialising in assisting former members of religious cults.

References

*Jones, Kelvin I. (1998) ''Seven Cornish Witches''.

Penzance Penzance ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the westernmost major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated in the ...

: Oakmagic Publications *Cornish World, No. 13, Juni/Juli/August 1997, page 14

External links

Home Page

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080524073203/http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/aburnham/pers/sounds.htm Cassandra speaking at a conference in 2000, before she became Vice President of the Pagan Federatio
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Living people British modern pagans Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Dartington College of Arts {{UK-reli-bio-stub