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Legend of the Witches & Secret Rites Dir Malcolm Leigh/Derek Ford, UK 1970/1971 BFI £14.99 (Dual Format)
Bewitched
A pair of extra-laden, remastered rarities feature publicity-seeking 'King of the Witches' Alex Sanders and a bevy of softcore porn actors selling 1970s audiences on the supposed practices of 'Wicca'
A strange creation myth about Diana, the Moon, loving Lucifer, the Sun, giving birth to all of nature. A blindfolded naked young man led on a perilous trail through trees and rocks before being accepted into a group of naked witches dancing around a fire. Odd reinterpretations of history, including Robin Hood, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Order of the Garter, all based on the supposition that presentday witchcraftis the true continuation of the Old Religion of these Isles: "Witches were the priests and priestesses of a religion believed in and practised by the whole population before the arrival of Christianity."
Malcolm Leigh's Legend of the Witches, a documentary about what...