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For our ramble this week,

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we'll go first to
the blue hills of the Cotswolds.

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The open air,

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the countryside

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where the sheep are
the aristocrats of their kind.

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Thatched roofs
cover cottages of stone

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and, incidentally,
hearts of gold.

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And near the village
are the famous Rollright Stones,

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which they say are earlier
than Stonehenge.

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The story goes
that a lord of the province

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aspired to become
King of England,

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but that wasn't okay
by the local witch.

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So she turned him and
his knights into lumps of stone.

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And let that be a lesson to you,
Mr. Brownsmith.

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Cotswold hospitality is a byword
among those who travel.

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[Screaming]

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- I came to visit my parents
here in the Cotswolds.

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And my father and I one evening
went down to his local pub.

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Where I started chatting
with a local.

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[Indistinct chatter]

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And he said, "Have you heard of
the murder of Charles Walton?"

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- In 1945,
on the slopes of Meon Hill...

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...a particularly gruesome
murder was committed.

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- [Growl]
- Who's there?

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Who is it? Who is it?

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Who are you?

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- He was battered to death
with a stick.

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[Screams]

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Keep away, keep away!

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- He was pinned to the ground
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[Slicing]

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I say keep away!

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- A sign of the cross
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with his own billhook.

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His name was Charles Wharton.

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[Children chanting
indistinctly]

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- [Children chanting]
We challenge death

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out of the village.

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Challenge death
out of the village.

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We challenge death
out of the village.

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- Charles Walton,
by all accounts,

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was a harmless old man.

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He was warm. He was friendly.

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He offered greeting to people
he passed in the street.

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So why did someone
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and kill him in such
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[Chanting continues]

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- It was the day particularly
rich in black magic Association.

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The Druids were reported to have
made sacrifice to the earth.

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- Had the villagers
blamed him for a bad crop

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that had happened that year.

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[Flies buzzing]

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- Was this the last ritual
killing in modern Britain?

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[Children laughing]

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- The murder of Charles Walton
struck a nerve with the nation.

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This bizarre ritualistic killing

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fueled the tabloids
for decades.

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- It inspired the imaginations
of rebellious youths.

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- I was,
as ordinary schoolgirls do,

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doing séances with my friends.

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And bored housewives.

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And also authors,
screenwriters, and directors

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of the 1960s and '70s.

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- There is nothing
fictitious about black magic.

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It is a fact which has existed
for several thousand years.

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Satanic ceremonies will
be happening in Britain tonight.

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- It was this moment
in cultural history

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that birthed its own genre,
the folk horror movie.

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- Amy's at the castle
and hold debauched gatherings.

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Men and women stripped naked.

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- It's usually
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English village

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where all the villagers
seem to be acting

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a little bit strangely.

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- Someone in this village
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The horror lies in the fact

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that it comes out of
the beliefs of the folk,

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like in "Midsommar".

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- [Woman screams]
- No!

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Custom? It's fucked!

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- To do with fertility
represented in men,

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to do with giving
a sacrifice of blood

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back to the land,
like "Kill List".

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So the Charles Walton
murder case directly influenced

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a whole host
of folk horror offerings,

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but specifically
"The Wicker Man".

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- It's an enormously bizarre
thriller,

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almost an occult musical.

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- A policeman goes
to an island, Summerisle,

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where a girl has
allegedly gone missing.

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The island is run
by a pagan cult.

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- I think what I relate to most
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is the idea of sort of
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that's kind of mad.

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British people put
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in structures and rituals.

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To the outside, they seem
completely pointless,

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but have a dark underbelly.

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- And it all goes back
to this murder in 1945.

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A very English murder
in a very English village.

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- If you cut through
the headlines

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and the horror movies...

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[Gasps]

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- ...then you'll find
a real mystery...

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...a mutilated dead body

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that even the soberest minds
have failed to explain.

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- My motive in coming here
was to find the truth.

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It poses a terrifying question.

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Who are we?

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[Crowd shouting]

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What is really going on
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and pleasant land?

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[Screaming]

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What are we hiding?

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Who killed Charles Walton?

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And most intriguingly...

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...why?

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- So on the morning
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...Charles Walton,
he's a 74-year-old farm laborer

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in the Lower Quinton...

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he goes downstairs
for his morning breakfast

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with his niece, Edith.

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And she prepares for him
the snack

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he always takes out into
the fields each day to work.

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[Sizzling]

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He leaves his house at 8:30.

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And Edith watches him leave.

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He crosses the lane
from his house.

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She returns from her job
that evening at 6:00,

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and she enters the cottage,

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fully expecting to find
her Uncle Charles at home.

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But he isn't.

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[Clock ticking]

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This is very odd,
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usually gets home at about 4:00.

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He has terrible arthritis,
he feels the cold,

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and he doesn't like
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So she's alarmed.

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She knocks on the door
of a neighbor,

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tells him that, you know,
Uncle Charles hasn't come home.

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The neighbor's concerned.

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They go across the lane,
through the churchyard,

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out into the fields.

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And they search
for about 20 minutes

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and they enlist the help
of Alfred Potter...

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...the farmer who's employed
Charles Walton

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to trim the hedges.

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And they come across
in the field

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where Charles
had been working that day,

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where two hedges intersect...

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...they find Charles lying
in that corner.

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His pitchfork has been impaled

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through his face
and part of his throat.

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And the trouncing hook,

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the tool he uses to trim the
hedges is buried in his neck.

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[Woman screaming]

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- Morning, sergeant.
- Morning, sir.

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- Had any luck?
- No, sir.

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That's obviously
where it happened, sir.

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Over there.

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- When Charles Walton's murder
occurred in Lower Quinton,

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it was in 1945,
on Valentine's Day.

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- Lovers walk,
they call it, sir.

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Not there was much love here
last night.

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- Nobody really knew
what had happened.

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A famous policeman called Fabian
got involved.

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- This is Fabian
of Scotland Yard.

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He later had his own TV show.

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He was a very well-known
household name.

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- Let us meet the real
Bob Fabian,

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the man called England's
greatest detective.

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- He himself became involved
in investigating this murder.

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We can see that parallel
directly with "The Wicker Man",

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with Sergeant Howie.

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An outsider policeman arrives
at this strange village.

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- Good day to you, sir.
I'm the harbormaster.

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- Sergeant, Howie,
West Highland Police.

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- It's kind of hard
to imagine today

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a police officer being
a household name.

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♪♪

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But Robert Fabian was the most
famous detective in Britain.

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♪♪

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He's worked undercover
in the underworld.

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He's taken down cat burglars.

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He has solved every case
he's ever worked.

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And so when the local police
in Warwickshire

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turn up at the Lower Quinton
crime scene...

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...and they see the severity
of the crime,

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- the brutality of it...
- [Camera shutter clicks]

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...they realize they need
a greater level of expertise

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to handle the case.

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[Telephone ringing]

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Fabian gets this request
to travel out to Lower Quinton.

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This quiet hamlet
of less than 500 people...

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[Airplane engine roaring]

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...where everyone
knows everything...

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and suspicious behavior
is easily noticeable.

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So he heads out there believing
he's going to catch his man.

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Do you know her?

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- When Fabian arrives,
he has a game plan.

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He starts off by having a
Spitfire fly over Lower Quinton

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and take a reconnaissance
photograph.

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[Camera shutter clicks]

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He has it blown up to wall size

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and he pins it up
in his operations room

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in the police station.

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♪♪

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And his plan is to interview
all 493 inhabitants

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of Lower Quinton,

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and use colored pins
to denote each person,

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stick them in the map,

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and then he can see who
was near the murder scene

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at the time of the killing,

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and thereby identify
who the killer was.

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Alfred Potter is a local farmer,

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and he's the farmer that
Charles Walton is working for.

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♪♪

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00:14:14,070 --> 00:14:17,987
Fabian suspects Potter
of the murder pretty quickly.

269
00:14:18,074 --> 00:14:21,425
- If you don't cooperate
with me here and now,

270
00:14:21,512 --> 00:14:24,385
you may well find yourself
inside a police cell tonight.

271
00:14:24,472 --> 00:14:26,561
Have I made myself quite clear?

272
00:14:26,604 --> 00:14:30,130
♪♪

273
00:14:30,217 --> 00:14:32,784
- Alfred Potter
is 40 years old.

274
00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:35,222
He's a big guy.
He's physically imposing.

275
00:14:35,309 --> 00:14:38,442
Broad shoulder, big chest,
thick neck.

276
00:14:38,529 --> 00:14:42,403
He comes across as sort of
a dunce and not too smart.

277
00:14:42,446 --> 00:14:44,448
♪♪

278
00:14:44,492 --> 00:14:47,321
But Fabian thinks
that behind the facade

279
00:14:47,408 --> 00:14:50,237
is someone of extreme cunning.

280
00:14:50,324 --> 00:14:53,805
♪♪

281
00:14:53,849 --> 00:14:56,417
So Potter helps look
for Charles Walton

282
00:14:56,504 --> 00:14:58,549
the night he doesn't come home.

283
00:15:00,116 --> 00:15:02,510
He actually touched
the handle of the trouncing hook

284
00:15:02,597 --> 00:15:05,252
that was buried
in Walton's throat.

285
00:15:07,819 --> 00:15:11,736
Fabian confronts Potter on this,
and Potter says,

286
00:15:11,867 --> 00:15:13,738
"Well, when we found the body,

287
00:15:13,825 --> 00:15:16,524
I wanted to make sure
Walton was dead."

288
00:15:16,611 --> 00:15:18,918
♪♪

289
00:15:19,005 --> 00:15:20,484
If you stumble across someone

290
00:15:20,528 --> 00:15:22,530
and they've got a pitchfork
through their face

291
00:15:22,617 --> 00:15:24,880
and a trouncing hook
buried in their throat,

292
00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:26,577
chances are they're dead.

293
00:15:26,664 --> 00:15:28,405
You probably
don't need to check.

294
00:15:28,579 --> 00:15:30,581
♪♪

295
00:15:30,668 --> 00:15:32,975
And while they're standing
over this body...

296
00:15:33,019 --> 00:15:34,672
♪♪

297
00:15:34,803 --> 00:15:38,894
...Potter turns to the police
officer and says...

298
00:15:39,025 --> 00:15:40,983
"I'm really famished."

299
00:15:41,027 --> 00:15:44,334
♪♪

300
00:15:44,378 --> 00:15:46,554
If you're standing
over the body of someone

301
00:15:46,641 --> 00:15:49,774
who's been horribly mutilated,

302
00:15:49,861 --> 00:15:51,602
usually your appetite
isn't going to be

303
00:15:51,646 --> 00:15:53,604
the first thing you think about.

304
00:15:54,779 --> 00:15:57,173
This guy wanted to get away
from the crime scene

305
00:15:57,260 --> 00:15:58,827
as quickly as possible.

306
00:15:58,870 --> 00:16:00,220
And why?

307
00:16:00,307 --> 00:16:05,747
♪♪

308
00:16:05,834 --> 00:16:10,317
Eventually, Potter has
a moment of stunning honesty...

309
00:16:10,404 --> 00:16:13,450
♪♪

310
00:16:13,537 --> 00:16:15,975
...and admits
that he's been skimming wages

311
00:16:16,105 --> 00:16:18,629
from his family's business.

312
00:16:18,803 --> 00:16:21,110
♪♪

313
00:16:21,241 --> 00:16:23,069
And to Fabian's mind,

314
00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:26,115
there's some sort of
money problem going on here.

315
00:16:26,202 --> 00:16:27,943
- Could he have
done the murders?

316
00:16:28,030 --> 00:16:31,251
I mean, could he be one of those
people with a split mind --

317
00:16:31,338 --> 00:16:33,035
sane one moment,
but mad the next?

318
00:16:33,079 --> 00:16:36,952
♪♪

319
00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:39,911
- Walton, in the village,
is rumored to walk around

320
00:16:39,999 --> 00:16:42,697
with large sums of cash.

321
00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:48,659
♪♪

322
00:16:48,746 --> 00:16:51,532
You have Walton working
in a field...

323
00:16:51,619 --> 00:16:53,969
♪♪

324
00:16:54,056 --> 00:16:57,364
...away from the village
on Potter's property.

325
00:16:57,451 --> 00:17:02,804
♪♪

326
00:17:02,847 --> 00:17:06,025
He's a perfect target.
It's a crime of opportunity.

327
00:17:06,199 --> 00:17:12,857
♪♪

328
00:17:12,944 --> 00:17:15,556
[Ducks calling]

329
00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,253
♪♪

330
00:17:17,340 --> 00:17:21,736
Couldn't Potter have killed
Walton to steal his money?

331
00:17:21,823 --> 00:17:23,303
It is a thin motive.

332
00:17:23,433 --> 00:17:26,045
There is no evidence, obviously,
that a robbery occurred.

333
00:17:27,698 --> 00:17:29,439
Walton's niece, Edith,

334
00:17:29,526 --> 00:17:32,181
said she wasn't aware
of him carrying around money.

335
00:17:34,531 --> 00:17:38,970
Then the question is, if this
was a murder for robbery,

336
00:17:39,014 --> 00:17:41,234
why was the crime so brutal?

337
00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:45,716
Fabian never charged Potter
with a crime

338
00:17:45,803 --> 00:17:48,241
because he just couldn't find
that one piece of evidence

339
00:17:48,328 --> 00:17:50,678
to basically seal the deal.

340
00:17:50,765 --> 00:17:59,904
♪♪

341
00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,516
♪♪

342
00:18:02,559 --> 00:18:06,476
- Something that Fabian found
particularly irritating

343
00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:09,044
and suspicious
about the villagers...

344
00:18:09,131 --> 00:18:13,918
♪♪

345
00:18:13,962 --> 00:18:18,097
...was that a brutal murder had
been committed in their midst,

346
00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:20,447
but nobody seemed
terribly bothered.

347
00:18:23,493 --> 00:18:25,930
Nobody seemed
in the least bit nervous

348
00:18:25,974 --> 00:18:30,631
that there might be a demented
killer harbored in their midst.

349
00:18:30,674 --> 00:18:35,679
♪♪

350
00:18:35,810 --> 00:18:38,378
They seem more intent
on stonewalling him

351
00:18:38,465 --> 00:18:42,251
than showing any interest in
the apprehension of the killer.

352
00:18:42,338 --> 00:18:46,255
♪♪

353
00:18:46,342 --> 00:18:49,258
- I suspect murder
and conspiracy to murder.

354
00:18:50,738 --> 00:18:53,436
Your lordship
seems strangely unconcerned.

355
00:18:55,046 --> 00:18:56,657
He had a constant feeling

356
00:18:56,744 --> 00:18:58,789
that instead of coming
forward to help him,

357
00:18:58,876 --> 00:19:00,965
the village was covering
something up.

358
00:19:02,315 --> 00:19:05,144
- Sergeant, if I were you,
I would go back to the mainland.

359
00:19:05,231 --> 00:19:08,625
Stop interfering in things
that are no concern of yours.

360
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,326
- The natives of Upper
and Lower Quinton

361
00:19:13,369 --> 00:19:17,852
and the surrounding district
are of a secretive disposition,

362
00:19:17,982 --> 00:19:20,681
and they do not take
easily to strangers.

363
00:19:20,768 --> 00:19:22,987
♪♪

364
00:19:23,074 --> 00:19:25,599
Therefore, I have borne in mind
the possibility

365
00:19:25,686 --> 00:19:27,557
of there being some local
history attached

366
00:19:27,601 --> 00:19:30,865
to the murdered man
or his neighbors,

367
00:19:30,908 --> 00:19:33,563
which we have not yet touched
upon,

368
00:19:33,650 --> 00:19:36,218
and which may have a direct
bearing upon the murder.

369
00:19:36,305 --> 00:19:44,357
♪♪

370
00:19:44,444 --> 00:19:47,795
♪♪

371
00:19:47,882 --> 00:19:50,928
- Fabian's failure
created a vacuum

372
00:19:51,015 --> 00:19:53,540
into which, one by one,

373
00:19:53,627 --> 00:19:57,848
other investigators who were
not official began to seep.

374
00:19:58,022 --> 00:20:01,287
♪♪

375
00:20:01,374 --> 00:20:06,074
And the first to get there
was a very respected academic,

376
00:20:06,161 --> 00:20:09,947
a leading Egyptologist
called Margaret Murray.

377
00:20:10,034 --> 00:20:11,645
...Dr. Margaret Murray,

378
00:20:11,688 --> 00:20:14,343
who is probably the leading
authority on witchcraft

379
00:20:14,430 --> 00:20:15,997
in the world today.

380
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,260
Dr. Murray, have you ever met
a witch yourself?

381
00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:21,959
- I've seen a witch.
I didn't meet her.

382
00:20:22,046 --> 00:20:26,094
She was a farmer's wife,
and I saw her on the road,

383
00:20:26,181 --> 00:20:30,011
and I passed close by her
and had a good look,

384
00:20:30,054 --> 00:20:33,275
and I thought she was one
of the most disagreeable people

385
00:20:33,362 --> 00:20:34,581
I'd ever seen.

386
00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:36,626
- Now, what sort of powers
did she have?

387
00:20:36,757 --> 00:20:40,064
- Well, she claimed to be able --
She was credited...

388
00:20:40,151 --> 00:20:42,806
I don't know whether she claimed
that she was credited

389
00:20:42,937 --> 00:20:45,200
with being able to kill
the animals,

390
00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:47,202
the farm animals,

391
00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:49,900
and the other farmers' wives
were terrified of her.

392
00:20:51,728 --> 00:20:52,816
Kathy.

393
00:20:52,903 --> 00:20:54,731
Kathy. Kathy.

394
00:20:56,298 --> 00:21:00,868
- Margaret Murray's take was that
pagan witches were practitioners

395
00:21:00,998 --> 00:21:02,783
of an ancient religion.

396
00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:04,524
- Hail [indistinct]
spirit of the dark,

397
00:21:04,654 --> 00:21:08,136
take thou my blood,
my flesh, my skin, and walk.

398
00:21:08,223 --> 00:21:10,269
Rise now from the forest,
from the furrows...

399
00:21:10,399 --> 00:21:13,010
They were surviving pagans.

400
00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,969
- Hail [indistinct]
spirit of the dark.

401
00:21:15,056 --> 00:21:18,538
These were disgusting people

402
00:21:18,625 --> 00:21:21,584
practicing a religion
of sexual orgies...

403
00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:26,110
...and sacrificial
bloodletting...

404
00:21:26,197 --> 00:21:27,808
[Woman groans]

405
00:21:27,895 --> 00:21:30,158
♪♪

406
00:21:30,201 --> 00:21:35,294
...left over from the darkness
of prehistory,

407
00:21:35,381 --> 00:21:37,905
and therefore
the witch trials were justified,

408
00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:42,997
which resulted in a slaughter
of tens of thousands of people.

409
00:21:43,084 --> 00:21:45,739
[Screaming]

410
00:21:48,437 --> 00:21:50,091
Elizabeth!

411
00:21:50,178 --> 00:21:52,963
♪♪

412
00:21:53,094 --> 00:21:57,403
- Murray made a few additions
to the tradition of witchcraft

413
00:21:57,490 --> 00:22:00,754
as a surviving pagan religion,

414
00:22:00,841 --> 00:22:03,583
which became standard
and popular culture

415
00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:06,977
like horror and thriller novels
of Dennis Wheatley.

416
00:22:07,064 --> 00:22:08,631
You fool!

417
00:22:08,675 --> 00:22:12,243
I'd rather see you dead
than meddling with black magic.

418
00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:14,376
One was that witches,

419
00:22:14,463 --> 00:22:17,292
traditionally gathered
in covens,

420
00:22:17,423 --> 00:22:19,686
had ideally 13 members.

421
00:22:19,729 --> 00:22:22,950
- Now that our coven of 13
has been restored,

422
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,865
we can begin the setup.

423
00:22:26,257 --> 00:22:28,564
- Margaret Murray emphasized
not only

424
00:22:28,651 --> 00:22:32,612
that some witches had been
guilty of hideous crimes...

425
00:22:32,699 --> 00:22:34,091
[Laughing maniacally]

426
00:22:34,178 --> 00:22:37,094
[People chanting indistinctly]

427
00:22:37,181 --> 00:22:38,618
...but that that sort of witch

428
00:22:38,705 --> 00:22:43,100
was still around
in modern England...

429
00:22:43,144 --> 00:22:46,539
and still secretly practicing
human sacrifice,

430
00:22:46,669 --> 00:22:49,237
as seen in
"The Devil Rides Out".

431
00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:52,675
- Father of darkness,
King of death,

432
00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:55,330
I pledge this knife.

433
00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:56,984
♪♪

434
00:22:57,027 --> 00:23:00,030
- Margaret Murray went
to the Lower Quinton area.

435
00:23:00,204 --> 00:23:03,643
♪♪

436
00:23:03,730 --> 00:23:05,949
She disguised herself
as an artist

437
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,996
and thought that way
to ingratiate herself

438
00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:12,086
with the local people
and uncover some more facts

439
00:23:12,216 --> 00:23:14,131
about the murder
of Charles Walton.

440
00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:15,394
[Camera shutter clicks]

441
00:23:16,830 --> 00:23:22,009
She later gave an interview
to the Birmingham Post

442
00:23:22,052 --> 00:23:26,579
and suggested that Walton
had been a human sacrifice...

443
00:23:26,666 --> 00:23:29,451
[People chanting indistinctly]

444
00:23:29,538 --> 00:23:32,802
♪♪

445
00:23:32,889 --> 00:23:36,197
...a propitiatory right
to make the crops grow...

446
00:23:36,284 --> 00:23:38,373
♪♪

447
00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:44,031
...of a surviving group of
black magic practicing witches.

448
00:23:44,161 --> 00:23:45,902
[Chanting continues]

449
00:23:45,989 --> 00:23:47,687
No!

450
00:23:47,774 --> 00:23:51,952
♪♪

451
00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:57,000
- So the second theory is
that he was killed by witches

452
00:23:57,087 --> 00:24:01,570
as part of some sort of
blood sacrifice to the land.

453
00:24:01,657 --> 00:24:11,275
♪♪

454
00:24:15,715 --> 00:24:18,065
- When you think of witchcraft,
you think of hysteria,

455
00:24:18,195 --> 00:24:20,981
as something that just exists
in people's mind.

456
00:24:21,068 --> 00:24:24,419
But in the 1960s,
there were real witches.

457
00:24:24,506 --> 00:24:33,733
♪♪

458
00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:36,475
There was an explosion
of interest in the supernatural

459
00:24:36,562 --> 00:24:38,955
and in ritualism.

460
00:24:39,129 --> 00:24:46,223
♪♪

461
00:24:46,267 --> 00:24:49,792
- The revival
of public interest in witchcraft

462
00:24:49,879 --> 00:24:53,056
is one of those curious features
of life today.

463
00:24:53,187 --> 00:24:55,189
But it's very difficult
to get to the truth

464
00:24:55,276 --> 00:24:57,147
of what it's all about.

465
00:24:57,234 --> 00:24:58,584
On one estimate,

466
00:24:58,714 --> 00:25:01,630
there are 30,000 people
practicing in witchcraft

467
00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:03,458
in this country alone.

468
00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:06,505
But even so,
it's enough to make you think,

469
00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:09,029
are there really dangers
involved?

470
00:25:09,072 --> 00:25:15,688
♪♪

471
00:25:15,775 --> 00:25:19,474
♪♪

472
00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:22,782
- And now to meet the witch,
Dr. Gerald Gardner.

473
00:25:22,869 --> 00:25:25,349
Dr. Gardner, how many witches
are there today?

474
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,439
- Well, about 400,
I should think.

475
00:25:28,483 --> 00:25:30,485
- And do these people worship
the devil?

476
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:33,488
- No. Good Lord, no.
They've got their own gods.

477
00:25:33,575 --> 00:25:36,665
Their own god's a very nice god.
They're the old gods of Britain.

478
00:25:36,752 --> 00:25:39,538
- And you asked me to believe
that you are a witch yourself?

479
00:25:39,668 --> 00:25:42,410
- Yes. I can be initiated into --

480
00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:44,891
brought into a circle
in the proper way.

481
00:25:47,197 --> 00:25:49,025
Away from the circle,

482
00:25:49,156 --> 00:25:51,898
the initiate, blindfolded,

483
00:25:52,028 --> 00:25:53,682
is prepared for the ordeals

484
00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:56,772
which he must undergo
before becoming a witch.

485
00:25:56,859 --> 00:25:59,340
The first is water.

486
00:25:59,427 --> 00:26:07,043
♪♪

487
00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:09,045
Michael?

488
00:26:09,132 --> 00:26:11,787
[Crickets chirping]

489
00:26:11,874 --> 00:26:13,746
Michael!

490
00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:18,359
♪♪

491
00:26:18,489 --> 00:26:20,622
As well as the elements,

492
00:26:20,709 --> 00:26:25,235
the initiate is made
acutely aware of himself.

493
00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:28,674
- Naked, blind...
- Michael!

494
00:26:28,804 --> 00:26:30,501
...alone.

495
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:34,593
He is confronted with some
of man's basic fears --

496
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,333
of nakedness,

497
00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:38,118
drowning,

498
00:26:38,161 --> 00:26:39,946
falling,

499
00:26:39,989 --> 00:26:42,383
pain.

500
00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:45,386
If he cannot master them
and himself,

501
00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:48,737
he will be considered
incapable of wisdom

502
00:26:48,868 --> 00:26:50,739
and will not be initiated.

503
00:26:50,826 --> 00:26:53,568
♪♪

504
00:26:53,699 --> 00:26:55,788
- "Legend of the Witches"
is very much representative

505
00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:59,182
of witchcraft at the time.

506
00:26:59,226 --> 00:27:02,664
This idea of witches
out in the woods naked,

507
00:27:02,751 --> 00:27:05,101
what's referred to as skyclad
in Wicca.

508
00:27:07,147 --> 00:27:09,453
It's something I've done myself
when I was younger.

509
00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:12,108
[Wolf howling in distance]

510
00:27:12,282 --> 00:27:15,851
♪♪

511
00:27:15,938 --> 00:27:18,811
It comes into Wicca because
of Dr. Gerald Gardner.

512
00:27:21,596 --> 00:27:24,599
- Gardner and my dad
were great friends.

513
00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:27,254
Dad always famously used to say,
King of the witches.

514
00:27:27,297 --> 00:27:29,996
His hair goes this way
and his beard goes that way.

515
00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:34,827
He made the witchcraft
revival happen

516
00:27:34,914 --> 00:27:39,353
by being a retired civil servant
with nothing to lose.

517
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,355
He liked taking his clothes off,
basically.

518
00:27:43,357 --> 00:27:45,054
And he discovered the witches.

519
00:27:45,141 --> 00:27:47,578
The witches liked him.

520
00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:51,278
He recreated witchcraft
as a living,

521
00:27:51,365 --> 00:27:54,673
breathing religion in the UK.

522
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,285
- Be frank, one reason
for the secrecy today

523
00:27:58,328 --> 00:28:02,115
is because covens are
an excuse for sexual orgies.

524
00:28:02,202 --> 00:28:03,594
Oh. That's nonsense.

525
00:28:03,638 --> 00:28:05,901
- Well, what do you dress in
when you dance?

526
00:28:05,988 --> 00:28:08,599
- [Laughs]
The traditional witches costume.

527
00:28:08,643 --> 00:28:10,079
Which is what?

528
00:28:10,166 --> 00:28:11,602
The skin.

529
00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:13,343
- In the nude?
- The nude. Yes, exactly.

530
00:28:13,517 --> 00:28:17,391
♪♪

531
00:28:17,478 --> 00:28:19,828
- Symbolic whipping
lets him understand

532
00:28:19,915 --> 00:28:23,571
that from now, he is subject
to the discipline of the cult.

533
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:28,445
In spite of this,
he is told

534
00:28:28,532 --> 00:28:31,231
in other religions,
you would kneel

535
00:28:31,361 --> 00:28:34,408
while I would tower above you.

536
00:28:34,538 --> 00:28:37,672
But in ours,
we are taught to be humble.

537
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:44,679
♪♪

538
00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:47,290
- You can honestly say
that witchcraft does no harm?

539
00:28:47,421 --> 00:28:50,032
- No, I think it's absolutely
no harm at all.

540
00:28:50,206 --> 00:29:00,086
♪♪

541
00:29:00,173 --> 00:29:08,137
♪♪

542
00:29:08,268 --> 00:29:12,620
- On the night of Friday,
September the 13th, 1963,

543
00:29:12,707 --> 00:29:15,188
something strange
happened in this place.

544
00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:20,671
A workman unlocking the door
of the 800-year-old keep

545
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:22,282
found this...

546
00:29:24,588 --> 00:29:26,112
...two human effigies.

547
00:29:26,242 --> 00:29:29,680
The top one male,
the bottom one female.

548
00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:32,727
Between them -- a soot
blackened sheep's heart

549
00:29:32,814 --> 00:29:35,556
pierced
by 13 hawthorn twigs.

550
00:29:37,471 --> 00:29:39,865
The work of a practical joker,

551
00:29:39,952 --> 00:29:44,304
a crank, or someone
dabbling in black magic.

552
00:29:44,347 --> 00:29:47,742
♪♪

553
00:29:47,829 --> 00:29:49,700
- Gerald Gardner
was accused by the press

554
00:29:49,831 --> 00:29:52,965
of whitewashing Wicca
and witchcraft.

555
00:29:53,052 --> 00:29:55,619
♪♪

556
00:29:55,663 --> 00:29:59,580
The tabloids reported on this
huge explosion of black masses

557
00:29:59,710 --> 00:30:01,321
all over Britain.

558
00:30:03,540 --> 00:30:07,196
Animal sacrifices,
seances with the dead,

559
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,852
summoning demons,
and casting curses.

560
00:30:10,896 --> 00:30:20,775
♪♪

561
00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:24,866
♪♪

562
00:30:24,953 --> 00:30:26,563
- If you've got power
to do good,

563
00:30:26,694 --> 00:30:28,565
then presumably
you can do harm as well.

564
00:30:28,652 --> 00:30:30,785
Yes, we could if we wanted to.

565
00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:34,136
- We only know
that they do practice witchcraft

566
00:30:34,223 --> 00:30:35,572
by what people say.

567
00:30:35,659 --> 00:30:38,140
But we never see anything.

568
00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:40,360
I'm uneasy about it.

569
00:30:40,490 --> 00:30:42,449
You know, when I hear about it.

570
00:30:42,492 --> 00:30:45,582
- What makes you uneasy about
having witches living here?

571
00:30:45,669 --> 00:30:47,976
- Lack of knowledge,
I should think.

572
00:30:48,063 --> 00:30:50,761
You know, I mean, if you don't
know anything about anything

573
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,633
on the subject, what do you do?

574
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,810
You get nervous.
You get frightened, don't you?

575
00:30:55,897 --> 00:30:57,638
- There's one particular lady
in the village

576
00:30:57,725 --> 00:31:00,336
who's convinced that I gave
her a great dose of diarrhea,

577
00:31:00,380 --> 00:31:01,990
which is absolutely ridiculous,

578
00:31:02,121 --> 00:31:05,733
but, um, she's convinced
that I was the cause of it.

579
00:31:07,517 --> 00:31:11,086
- The bishops regularly denounce
the alleged witch cult

580
00:31:11,173 --> 00:31:14,176
as an attack
on the Christian family.

581
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:15,830
Ken Malin is 23.

582
00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:17,701
He's done many jobs

583
00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:20,313
and is convinced his failure
to make money out of any of them

584
00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:22,663
was due to the malign influences
of the devil,

585
00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:25,144
rather than his own
shortcomings.

586
00:31:25,231 --> 00:31:27,059
Have you ever seen the devil?

587
00:31:27,189 --> 00:31:29,061
- I think I've seen him once,
yes.

588
00:31:29,191 --> 00:31:31,106
I said, you know, I'm going
to sell my soul to the devil.

589
00:31:31,193 --> 00:31:32,629
And I used to sit
in front of the mirror

590
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,327
or something like that,
and I'd pray.

591
00:31:34,414 --> 00:31:36,198
I'd pray to the devil.

592
00:31:36,285 --> 00:31:37,765
I'd pray to the devil
and say, "Take my soul.

593
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:39,854
Give me all the things
that I want.

594
00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:41,508
Give me a white Rolls-Royce
with black windows

595
00:31:41,638 --> 00:31:43,510
and a TV aerial on top.

596
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,164
Give me all the wealth.

597
00:31:45,207 --> 00:31:46,339
Give me all the girls
I want to go to bed with."

598
00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:48,123
But I woke up one night

599
00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:50,343
and I saw this
incredibly handsome man

600
00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:52,214
standing in the room.

601
00:31:52,345 --> 00:31:53,955
I mean, really handsome.

602
00:31:53,999 --> 00:31:56,001
I mean, you know,
it was a real attraction.

603
00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:58,003
I just almost wanted
to sort of touch him.

604
00:31:58,090 --> 00:32:00,048
But I became frightened.

605
00:32:00,135 --> 00:32:02,224
And when I closed my eyes to
sort of try and get rid of it,

606
00:32:02,311 --> 00:32:03,922
it was still there.

607
00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:05,271
I mean, the moment
I closed my eyes,

608
00:32:05,401 --> 00:32:07,055
it was still there in my mind.

609
00:32:07,142 --> 00:32:10,232
- I command in the name
of the father,

610
00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:14,671
and of the son,
and of the Holy Ghost

611
00:32:14,758 --> 00:32:18,110
that all evil forces,
all evil spirits,

612
00:32:18,197 --> 00:32:22,941
all forms of witchcraft, black
magic, or sorcery may depart.

613
00:32:23,071 --> 00:32:25,247
Beat down Satan under our feet

614
00:32:25,334 --> 00:32:31,297
and call these evil forces
to depart.

615
00:32:49,706 --> 00:32:51,099
[Exhales deeply]

616
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:57,366
I feel a definite kind of
violent force attacking me.

617
00:32:57,410 --> 00:33:00,369
Sort of thing
that almost knocks me out.

618
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,154
And, I mean,
there have been occasions

619
00:33:02,241 --> 00:33:03,894
when I have been knocked out.

620
00:33:04,025 --> 00:33:06,549
The force coming out
from him was so great

621
00:33:06,636 --> 00:33:09,161
that I was flung about five feet
across the altar.

622
00:33:09,248 --> 00:33:13,556
♪♪

623
00:33:13,643 --> 00:33:15,689
Charles Walton lies buried

624
00:33:15,776 --> 00:33:18,779
in Lower Quinton's
peaceful churchyard.

625
00:33:18,866 --> 00:33:23,653
A murder victim whose killer
I failed to bring to justice.

626
00:33:23,784 --> 00:33:28,441
I've never said this before,
but I think I know who did it.

627
00:33:28,571 --> 00:33:31,966
Who, though, will come
forward with the evidence?

628
00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:35,709
♪♪

629
00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:38,451
After the efforts of Fabian,

630
00:33:38,538 --> 00:33:43,847
Scotland Yard's best detective,
is unable to solve the murder...

631
00:33:45,719 --> 00:33:49,636
...Margaret Murray came from
London to do her investigation,

632
00:33:49,723 --> 00:33:52,073
who believed witches did this.

633
00:33:52,117 --> 00:33:54,423
♪♪

634
00:33:54,554 --> 00:33:58,558
Then in 1956,
this woman steps forward...

635
00:34:00,212 --> 00:34:02,518
...and claims to know
who did it.

636
00:34:04,564 --> 00:34:06,914
And she claims
to have been a witch.

637
00:34:06,957 --> 00:34:10,483
♪♪

638
00:34:10,570 --> 00:34:11,745
She won't give her name,

639
00:34:11,788 --> 00:34:13,834
but she provides
all the details,

640
00:34:13,877 --> 00:34:17,229
details that the police
haven't been able to suss out.

641
00:34:17,316 --> 00:34:20,319
♪♪

642
00:34:20,406 --> 00:34:22,060
And she tells a story.

643
00:34:22,234 --> 00:34:25,150
♪♪

644
00:34:25,237 --> 00:34:29,023
And it's the story of outsiders
coming into the village...

645
00:34:29,110 --> 00:34:34,681
♪♪

646
00:34:34,811 --> 00:34:36,509
...gathering in a field
around Charles Walton

647
00:34:36,596 --> 00:34:38,946
while he's out there,
trimming the hedge.

648
00:34:38,989 --> 00:34:45,996
♪♪

649
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,608
And they stab him
with his pitchfork.

650
00:34:48,695 --> 00:34:50,262
[Squelching]

651
00:34:51,828 --> 00:34:54,309
And they pour his blood
into goblets.

652
00:34:54,353 --> 00:34:56,964
♪♪

653
00:34:57,095 --> 00:35:01,229
And they dip their robes
into the blood...

654
00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:04,232
and they dance around his body.

655
00:35:04,406 --> 00:35:09,368
♪♪

656
00:35:09,498 --> 00:35:11,805
[Screaming]

657
00:35:12,806 --> 00:35:15,722
- This is the popular conception
of what witches do.

658
00:35:15,809 --> 00:35:17,680
We asked Europe's
leading witchcraft authority

659
00:35:17,724 --> 00:35:19,334
what he thought
of this widespread image.

660
00:35:19,421 --> 00:35:21,075
That has a lot of rubbish.

661
00:35:21,162 --> 00:35:24,774
- Alexander Saunders,
Europe's king of the witches.

662
00:35:24,818 --> 00:35:27,342
- When people meet me
in the street,

663
00:35:27,429 --> 00:35:29,127
they're so terrified of me,

664
00:35:29,257 --> 00:35:31,825
after seeing a scene like that.

665
00:35:31,912 --> 00:35:33,914
Alex Saunders is the person

666
00:35:33,957 --> 00:35:37,396
who emerges as the most famous
witch in the world

667
00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:40,486
in the 1960s.

668
00:35:40,573 --> 00:35:43,924
He is a working class man
from the Birkenhead,

669
00:35:44,011 --> 00:35:45,708
Liverpool region.

670
00:35:45,752 --> 00:35:48,755
He reinvents himself
as a pagan witch,

671
00:35:48,842 --> 00:35:52,498
inspired by
Gerald Gardner's witch religion.

672
00:35:52,585 --> 00:35:55,544
♪♪

673
00:35:55,631 --> 00:35:57,503
- They come from all over
the world,

674
00:35:57,633 --> 00:35:59,679
and some of them
asking for help.

675
00:35:59,766 --> 00:36:02,812
The majority of them are
people asking for initiation.

676
00:36:02,943 --> 00:36:08,470
- And from 1964, he's got the
perfect partner called Maxine.

677
00:36:08,601 --> 00:36:11,517
He was especially protective
of vulnerable young women

678
00:36:11,604 --> 00:36:13,475
because being gay,

679
00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:18,176
he really had no vested interest
at all in exploiting them.

680
00:36:18,263 --> 00:36:21,701
He must have initiated more
people into pagan witchcraft

681
00:36:21,831 --> 00:36:24,182
than anybody else in history.

682
00:36:24,225 --> 00:36:26,227
- We followed up
one of these inquiries

683
00:36:26,314 --> 00:36:28,098
and found a young lady,

684
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:30,057
far from the image
of the cranky spinster

685
00:36:30,144 --> 00:36:33,147
one might associate
with witches and broomsticks.

686
00:36:33,278 --> 00:36:35,149
Penny's leaving her work
earlier than usual today

687
00:36:35,236 --> 00:36:37,586
because she has
a most important date.

688
00:36:37,717 --> 00:36:39,806
- I'd always had
this interest in the occult

689
00:36:39,936 --> 00:36:42,025
ever since I can remember,

690
00:36:42,112 --> 00:36:44,506
but I didn't know how
to go about contacting anyone

691
00:36:44,593 --> 00:36:47,683
until I read a book
about Alex Saunders.

692
00:36:47,857 --> 00:36:57,780
♪♪

693
00:36:57,867 --> 00:36:59,608
- A friend of mine
phoned up one day and she said,

694
00:36:59,695 --> 00:37:02,872
"Janet, I've just read
a fascinating book

695
00:37:02,959 --> 00:37:05,135
about a man called
Alex Saunders.

696
00:37:05,266 --> 00:37:07,442
He says he's the king
of the witches,

697
00:37:07,529 --> 00:37:09,618
and I'm going to meet him."

698
00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:11,359
Alarm bells.

699
00:37:11,446 --> 00:37:14,057
♪♪

700
00:37:14,144 --> 00:37:16,756
I grew up
in a Christian household.

701
00:37:16,843 --> 00:37:18,497
♪♪

702
00:37:18,584 --> 00:37:21,413
My grandfather was a deacon
of the church

703
00:37:21,456 --> 00:37:23,197
and became
a Sunday school teacher.

704
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:27,375
I had no interest in the occult
at all

705
00:37:27,419 --> 00:37:29,638
because to me
it was all satanic.

706
00:37:29,682 --> 00:37:32,337
- I've thought about
what I'm doing quite a lot

707
00:37:32,424 --> 00:37:35,296
and talked it over with my
parents and friends and people.

708
00:37:35,383 --> 00:37:37,864
Almost all of them
think I'm crazy.

709
00:37:37,951 --> 00:37:40,301
- So I said, "Well, if you're
going, I'm going, too,"

710
00:37:40,388 --> 00:37:41,868
because my attitude was,

711
00:37:41,955 --> 00:37:43,783
you're not getting involved
in this, darling.

712
00:37:46,351 --> 00:37:49,179
So the two of us
set off to meet Alex Saunders,

713
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:53,532
who lived in a very dingy little
flat in Notting Hill Gate.

714
00:37:53,662 --> 00:37:56,056
- Well, in the book it shows
us dancing around fires.

715
00:37:56,099 --> 00:37:58,319
I found him fascinating.

716
00:37:58,450 --> 00:38:02,323
And something about witchcraft
made sense.

717
00:38:02,410 --> 00:38:06,109
I decided I'd go along
and join the coven as well.

718
00:38:06,196 --> 00:38:08,373
I had no idea
what I was walking into,

719
00:38:08,503 --> 00:38:11,332
because I thought
I'd put on a lovely robe,

720
00:38:11,419 --> 00:38:12,986
and that would be it.

721
00:38:13,116 --> 00:38:15,597
[Speaking in global language]

722
00:38:18,992 --> 00:38:22,561
- And Alex said, well, actually,
we're filming an initiation

723
00:38:22,648 --> 00:38:24,824
and we need an initiate.

724
00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:27,000
And you, Janet,
are the initiate.

725
00:38:27,043 --> 00:38:29,350
♪♪

726
00:38:29,437 --> 00:38:32,614
- On the floor is a circle
nine feet in diameter,

727
00:38:32,701 --> 00:38:36,183
with a candle burning at each
of the four cardinal points.

728
00:38:37,576 --> 00:38:40,013
I bring before you Janet.

729
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:41,971
[Speaking indistinctly]

730
00:38:44,191 --> 00:38:47,542
- "Take her clothes off."
What?

731
00:38:47,629 --> 00:38:50,980
"Well, you're the initiate.
You have to be naked."

732
00:38:51,067 --> 00:38:53,418
I've never seen a naked man
in my life.

733
00:38:53,548 --> 00:38:55,898
So here am I, being told
to take my clothes off

734
00:38:55,942 --> 00:38:58,553
and be naked
in a room full of strangers.

735
00:38:58,597 --> 00:39:00,860
- Outside the circle
stands the initiate,

736
00:39:00,990 --> 00:39:02,949
who is waiting to be admitted.

737
00:39:02,992 --> 00:39:05,081
She is naked and blindfold.

738
00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:07,693
- Well, in for a penny,
in for a pound, as they say.

739
00:39:07,780 --> 00:39:10,870
So I took all my clothes off and
stood there shaking in my boots,

740
00:39:10,913 --> 00:39:13,002
which, of course,
I wasn't wearing.

741
00:39:15,614 --> 00:39:17,485
When one of the women came in

742
00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:21,881
and she proceeded to tie me up
like a chicken and blindfold me.

743
00:39:23,883 --> 00:39:27,756
Well, I was led into a room
where the incense was burning.

744
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,193
I'm on my knees,
trussed up like a chicken,

745
00:39:30,324 --> 00:39:32,370
and they take the blindfold off.

746
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,373
Right in front of me
and fully erect

747
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:38,376
was the first male naked penis
I'd ever seen.

748
00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:40,465
And it was not a pretty sight.

749
00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:42,684
But on the other hand,
if you're going to be a witch,

750
00:39:42,771 --> 00:39:44,904
you put up
with all sorts of things.

751
00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:52,302
♪♪

752
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:53,826
- There was an efflorescence
of British horror film

753
00:39:53,913 --> 00:39:56,611
starting in the late '50s,

754
00:39:56,742 --> 00:39:59,222
but there was a kind
of concentration of them

755
00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:02,530
in the early '70s.

756
00:40:02,661 --> 00:40:05,794
Increasingly weird and wonderful
British horror films.

757
00:40:05,925 --> 00:40:07,840
[Screaming]

758
00:40:07,927 --> 00:40:10,495
♪♪

759
00:40:10,582 --> 00:40:11,757
Look.

760
00:40:11,844 --> 00:40:13,149
What do you see?

761
00:40:13,236 --> 00:40:15,238
[Gasps]

762
00:40:15,325 --> 00:40:17,023
- It's very easy
to look back at them now

763
00:40:17,110 --> 00:40:19,547
and view them purely
as fantasies.

764
00:40:19,721 --> 00:40:22,681
♪♪

765
00:40:22,768 --> 00:40:25,423
But there was a very strange
interbreeding

766
00:40:25,466 --> 00:40:30,428
between film stories and the
bizarre stuff that was going on.

767
00:40:30,602 --> 00:40:33,300
♪♪

768
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,171
- The horror movies
look like the products

769
00:40:35,258 --> 00:40:38,044
of deranged imaginations
of the directors,

770
00:40:38,131 --> 00:40:40,263
but they actually look
like they're lifted

771
00:40:40,307 --> 00:40:44,485
from documentary footage of
real witches made at the time.

772
00:40:44,529 --> 00:40:54,495
♪♪

773
00:40:54,539 --> 00:40:58,543
♪♪

774
00:40:58,586 --> 00:41:00,936
"Secret Rites",

775
00:41:01,023 --> 00:41:05,288
what you see in that documentary
is very, very slightly hyped,

776
00:41:05,419 --> 00:41:07,856
but otherwise it is actually
pretty accurate portrayal.

777
00:41:07,943 --> 00:41:10,729
- I do summonst her
and call her up

778
00:41:10,816 --> 00:41:14,297
to witness my rights
and to guard the circle.

779
00:41:15,647 --> 00:41:17,431
In late 1960s Britain,

780
00:41:17,562 --> 00:41:21,914
there was a major societal shift
culturally, socially.

781
00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:24,090
♪♪

782
00:41:24,177 --> 00:41:28,616
People exploring drugs,
psychedelia,

783
00:41:28,747 --> 00:41:32,838
new ways of thinking, new ways
of being, alternative religions.

784
00:41:32,925 --> 00:41:34,796
♪♪

785
00:41:34,883 --> 00:41:37,320
There were witches
on chat shows.

786
00:41:37,364 --> 00:41:39,366
- Being a witch
is bloody hard work.

787
00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:41,020
We've had everybody
in our coven

788
00:41:41,107 --> 00:41:43,413
from building site laborers
down to grandmas.

789
00:41:43,457 --> 00:41:45,415
In fact,
you probably all know a pagan

790
00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:47,548
or a witch somewhere
who lives quite close to you

791
00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:49,942
and you would never
even guess what they are.

792
00:41:50,072 --> 00:41:51,421
I'm a secretary.

793
00:41:51,552 --> 00:41:53,380
- I do spray painting
most of the time.

794
00:41:53,467 --> 00:41:55,730
I work in a boutique.

795
00:41:55,817 --> 00:41:58,516
- Witchcraft was everywhere,
it was all pervasive.

796
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:01,170
- Witchcraft is growing
in this country

797
00:42:01,257 --> 00:42:03,216
and there are so many
black covens.

798
00:42:03,259 --> 00:42:06,045
I am issuing a challenge
to the others.

799
00:42:06,088 --> 00:42:09,265
Come out
and fight me for my throne.

800
00:42:09,352 --> 00:42:11,790
- There was an awareness
that Britain was going nuts.

801
00:42:11,877 --> 00:42:14,009
♪♪

802
00:42:14,096 --> 00:42:16,621
It was almost as if the country
were sort of entering

803
00:42:16,708 --> 00:42:19,928
into a nervous breakdown, a kind
of collective nervous breakdown.

804
00:42:20,059 --> 00:42:22,235
[Screaming]

805
00:42:22,322 --> 00:42:24,672
- Britain goes through
an identity crisis.

806
00:42:24,803 --> 00:42:26,369
Its empire has ended.

807
00:42:26,413 --> 00:42:29,111
It's not as rich
as it used to be.

808
00:42:29,155 --> 00:42:31,374
- There's class war.
- [People shouting]

809
00:42:32,637 --> 00:42:34,247
[Crowd shouting]

810
00:42:35,465 --> 00:42:36,945
There's sexual revolution.

811
00:42:36,989 --> 00:42:38,556
[Woman laughing]

812
00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:42,516
There's satire,

813
00:42:42,603 --> 00:42:45,432
and the institution's respect
for them is crumbling.

814
00:42:45,475 --> 00:42:48,000
[People shouting]

815
00:42:48,087 --> 00:42:52,004
- And all the assumptions
about how to behave

816
00:42:52,091 --> 00:42:54,615
were blown to smithereens.

817
00:42:54,702 --> 00:43:02,449
♪♪

818
00:43:02,492 --> 00:43:05,104
- Has it helped you,
being a witch?

819
00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:11,806
- The entire advertising industry
is witchcraft, darling.

820
00:43:11,850 --> 00:43:15,288
The poor old public
is permanently spellbound.

821
00:43:15,331 --> 00:43:21,686
♪♪

822
00:43:21,773 --> 00:43:23,905
Witchcraft is the only religion

823
00:43:23,992 --> 00:43:26,429
that the UK has given
to the world.

824
00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:29,389
♪♪

825
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,261
Because it involved
a certain amount of nudity,

826
00:43:32,348 --> 00:43:34,220
it was a salacious,
it was exciting,

827
00:43:34,350 --> 00:43:36,788
it was titillating.

828
00:43:36,831 --> 00:43:39,138
It was catnip
to the Sunday papers.

829
00:43:39,181 --> 00:43:46,972
♪♪

830
00:43:47,102 --> 00:43:51,411
- Witches in popular culture
has changed over the decades.

831
00:43:51,498 --> 00:43:54,066
[Crowd shouting]

832
00:43:54,153 --> 00:43:56,503
- If you think about
the notion of the witch

833
00:43:56,546 --> 00:44:00,333
as a hag in "Snow White"
or "The Wizard of Oz"...

834
00:44:00,376 --> 00:44:02,640
♪♪

835
00:44:02,727 --> 00:44:06,208
...but then the 1960s and '70s
in folk horror,

836
00:44:06,295 --> 00:44:09,081
we see these kind of young,
nubile,

837
00:44:09,168 --> 00:44:12,693
kind of naked women,
very sexualized.

838
00:44:12,824 --> 00:44:15,000
- I did some articles
on witches once.

839
00:44:15,087 --> 00:44:16,697
No. Not witches, damn them.

840
00:44:16,784 --> 00:44:18,525
People who thought
they were witches,

841
00:44:18,612 --> 00:44:20,222
the psychology of it,

842
00:44:20,353 --> 00:44:22,268
it's a sex thing, deep down,
of course.

843
00:44:22,355 --> 00:44:24,487
Mostly women go in for it.

844
00:44:25,837 --> 00:44:29,101
- This reflects
what was going on in society.

845
00:44:29,231 --> 00:44:32,582
There's a lot of
sexual liberation with the pill.

846
00:44:32,713 --> 00:44:36,195
Women can be in charge
of their own sexual freedom.

847
00:44:37,718 --> 00:44:41,287
- Being in a circle full
of naked people was liberating.

848
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,683
A lot of the women were young.
They were good-looking.

849
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:50,644
They were taught
to be proud of their bodies,

850
00:44:50,775 --> 00:44:52,951
to represent the goddess.

851
00:44:53,038 --> 00:44:55,736
And that was fantastic.

852
00:44:55,823 --> 00:44:59,653
They were exploited
to some extent, but willingly.

853
00:45:02,047 --> 00:45:05,006
And it upset your mum that
you were naked in the papers.

854
00:45:07,356 --> 00:45:10,664
- My father was sitting
there reading a newspaper.

855
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:14,015
I said, "I think I'd better tell
you something, Daddy.

856
00:45:14,102 --> 00:45:15,930
I don't quite know
how to tell you this, Dad,

857
00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:17,932
so I'm going to come
straight out with it.

858
00:45:18,019 --> 00:45:19,673
I'm naked on the cover."

859
00:45:19,804 --> 00:45:23,895
Without batting an eyelid,
he lowered the newspaper,

860
00:45:24,025 --> 00:45:25,766
peered over the top, and went,

861
00:45:25,853 --> 00:45:28,638
"That's nice,"
and pulled the newspaper up

862
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:30,728
and continued reading.

863
00:45:30,815 --> 00:45:33,731
And that was my father's
initiation into witchcraft.

864
00:45:35,776 --> 00:45:38,431
- The counterculture
was sort of spreading

865
00:45:38,518 --> 00:45:40,389
into people's breakfast tables.

866
00:45:40,476 --> 00:45:42,261
You know, Mr.
and Mrs. Average Briton

867
00:45:42,348 --> 00:45:44,089
couldn't open their tabloid
newspapers

868
00:45:44,176 --> 00:45:46,439
without reading bizarre stories.

869
00:45:46,526 --> 00:45:49,877
♪♪

870
00:45:49,921 --> 00:45:53,489
And all this fed, really,
into horror films of the period.

871
00:45:53,576 --> 00:45:57,972
A date with the devil.

872
00:45:58,059 --> 00:46:00,061
A bacchanal with Beelzebub.

873
00:46:00,148 --> 00:46:02,847
- Sounds wild!
- It's Sunday supplement stuff.

874
00:46:03,935 --> 00:46:07,155
- The details
of the Charles Walton murder --

875
00:46:07,286 --> 00:46:09,244
well, they were
extremely gruesome.

876
00:46:09,331 --> 00:46:12,030
And the intimations
of ritual murder

877
00:46:12,117 --> 00:46:14,641
were so gruesomely glamorous.

878
00:46:17,992 --> 00:46:20,865
This titillated
the tabloids enormously.

879
00:46:20,908 --> 00:46:22,562
And, of course, filmmakers.

880
00:46:22,649 --> 00:46:24,782
- I've heard of things.
Every now and then.

881
00:46:24,869 --> 00:46:26,871
There's a song and dance
about it in the Sunday papers.

882
00:46:27,001 --> 00:46:31,484
Devil worship, graves dug up,
churches desecrated...

883
00:46:31,527 --> 00:46:33,791
...blood.
Stories of blood.

884
00:46:40,623 --> 00:46:43,322
- After the Walton murder
in 1945,

885
00:46:45,628 --> 00:46:47,761
there were actually
several novels on the subject

886
00:46:47,848 --> 00:46:49,807
of ritual murders.

887
00:46:51,721 --> 00:46:55,682
There was Robin Estridge's
novel, "Day of the Arrow,"

888
00:46:55,769 --> 00:46:59,425
which became a film
called "Eye of the Devil,"

889
00:46:59,512 --> 00:47:03,951
in which the marquis
of a region of Bordeaux

890
00:47:04,038 --> 00:47:07,128
has had a failed crop
for three years running

891
00:47:07,172 --> 00:47:09,174
is ritually sacrificed...

892
00:47:11,393 --> 00:47:13,743
Alain! No!

893
00:47:13,831 --> 00:47:17,660
- ...in order to ensure that the
wine will flow better in future.

894
00:47:17,747 --> 00:47:21,621
- This heathen mumbo-jumbo,
these sadists!

895
00:47:23,101 --> 00:47:27,322
- Sharon Tate was making a film
called "The Eye of the Devil"

896
00:47:27,409 --> 00:47:31,196
and the film company obviously
had heard about Alex Sanders.

897
00:47:34,112 --> 00:47:37,855
And so they decided
to get hold of real witches

898
00:47:37,942 --> 00:47:40,205
to consult about the film.

899
00:47:41,641 --> 00:47:46,124
He and Maxine went along
and they met the cast,

900
00:47:46,211 --> 00:47:47,908
and Alex did one
of his oogie boogie bits,

901
00:47:47,995 --> 00:47:50,215
as I call it,

902
00:47:50,302 --> 00:47:52,565
which basically involves
Maxine lying on the floor

903
00:47:52,652 --> 00:47:55,002
and he's --
I don't know what he's doing,

904
00:47:55,089 --> 00:47:57,222
but anyway, he's doing
something with Maxine.

905
00:47:59,354 --> 00:48:03,663
- There was Norah Lofts novel
called "Devil's Own,"

906
00:48:03,706 --> 00:48:06,666
which became a Hammer film
in 1966 called "The Witches."

907
00:48:06,753 --> 00:48:08,668
- Afternoon, miss.
- Good afternoon.

908
00:48:08,711 --> 00:48:11,236
- And in that, Miss Mayfield
decides to become a teacher

909
00:48:11,323 --> 00:48:14,152
in what appears to be
a beautiful, idyll village.

910
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:19,331
♪♪

911
00:48:19,418 --> 00:48:21,594
The occult novel
that inspired "The Wicker Man"

912
00:48:21,724 --> 00:48:24,075
was "Ritual" by David Pinner.

913
00:48:26,381 --> 00:48:29,471
- The Charles Walton murder
case also directly influenced

914
00:48:29,515 --> 00:48:31,821
a whole host of other folk
horror offerings...

915
00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:33,606
- Who's that?
Who is it?

916
00:48:33,649 --> 00:48:37,610
♪♪

917
00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:39,481
...like "Robin Redbreast,"

918
00:48:39,568 --> 00:48:41,831
"Penda's Fen,"
"Plague of the Zombies"...

919
00:48:41,962 --> 00:48:43,833
- This is a Cornish
village inhabited by

920
00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:47,011
simple country people,
riddled with superstitions.

921
00:48:47,054 --> 00:48:49,970
- They all represent
the theme of the outsider

922
00:48:50,101 --> 00:48:55,019
coming into a local village
where the villagers are unwelcoming,

923
00:48:55,106 --> 00:48:57,282
unfriendly, uncooperative.

924
00:48:57,935 --> 00:48:59,501
- Is there anything we can do,
vicar?

925
00:48:59,588 --> 00:49:01,199
- Yeah.
You can keep away from us.

926
00:49:01,286 --> 00:49:02,809
Please, it was not our fault.

927
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:04,506
Leave us alone!

928
00:49:04,550 --> 00:49:06,856
- But surely, you --
- I said leave us alone!

929
00:49:07,727 --> 00:49:10,904
- Which certainly happened
in the Charles Walton case.

930
00:49:10,991 --> 00:49:13,951
The villagers were not only
misleading people,

931
00:49:14,081 --> 00:49:16,475
but they were blatantly lying --

932
00:49:17,693 --> 00:49:19,130
making up stories,

933
00:49:19,217 --> 00:49:21,349
giving fabricated evidence,

934
00:49:21,436 --> 00:49:24,439
leading the police
down all sorts of rabbit holes,

935
00:49:24,526 --> 00:49:25,832
different tracks.

936
00:49:26,528 --> 00:49:29,053
Whose desk is that?

937
00:49:29,140 --> 00:49:30,750
No one's.

938
00:49:30,793 --> 00:49:33,535
- Margaret Murray said
specifically in the Walton case,

939
00:49:33,622 --> 00:49:35,581
that the murder
had been committed

940
00:49:35,711 --> 00:49:39,454
to give the blood sacrifice to
the land for fertility purposes.

941
00:49:39,846 --> 00:49:43,676
- And from his blood,
the crops would spring.

942
00:49:44,024 --> 00:49:48,420
- The earth has to have
[echoing] sacrifice.

943
00:49:50,465 --> 00:49:52,337
So Fabian left Lower Quinton,

944
00:49:52,424 --> 00:49:54,426
never having resolved this case,

945
00:49:54,556 --> 00:49:57,690
never having found out
what really happened.

946
00:49:57,777 --> 00:49:59,170
Did you find the girl?

947
00:50:00,823 --> 00:50:03,652
- No, well,
I can't say I'm very surprised.

948
00:50:06,133 --> 00:50:08,744
- "The Wicker Man" is set on
a far-flung island

949
00:50:08,831 --> 00:50:12,705
among people who are still
trying to live in the distant pagan past.

950
00:50:14,924 --> 00:50:19,364
But it's also very much
a film of the 1960s and '70s.

951
00:50:20,713 --> 00:50:23,281
The hysteria around
Charles Walton,

952
00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:27,241
the sexual revolution,

953
00:50:27,328 --> 00:50:29,765
and a fascination
that people had for witchcraft.

954
00:50:29,896 --> 00:50:32,899
[Chanting]

955
00:50:34,422 --> 00:50:37,686
- I invoke thee and call upon
thee, mighty mother of us all.

956
00:50:37,817 --> 00:50:39,688
Bringer of all fruitfulness.

957
00:50:39,819 --> 00:50:42,082
- Queen of Heaven.
Queen of Hell.

958
00:50:42,169 --> 00:50:44,084
Horned hunter of the night.

959
00:50:44,171 --> 00:50:47,870
- The wind is crying through the
trees.

960
00:50:47,957 --> 00:50:50,873
And we invoke thee to appear.

961
00:50:51,178 --> 00:50:53,572
Mighty god of the sun,

962
00:50:53,615 --> 00:50:57,141
Bountiful goddess
of our orchards...

963
00:50:57,228 --> 00:51:01,406
- So "The Wicker Man" is as much
about fact as it is fiction.

964
00:51:03,886 --> 00:51:05,584
But the killing
of Charles Walton

965
00:51:05,671 --> 00:51:08,717
wasn't the only occult crime
that inspired folk horror.

966
00:51:12,330 --> 00:51:19,598
♪♪

967
00:51:19,641 --> 00:51:26,866
♪♪

968
00:51:26,996 --> 00:51:30,696
Highgate Cemetery.

969
00:51:30,783 --> 00:51:32,437
Something was going on there.

970
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:39,008
♪♪

971
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:42,447
I worked for an architect.

972
00:51:44,623 --> 00:51:45,711
He came into work one morning,

973
00:51:45,754 --> 00:51:47,582
he was as white as a sheet.

974
00:51:50,585 --> 00:51:53,022
And I said,
"Are you all right?"

975
00:51:53,066 --> 00:51:56,330
And he said, "I've just had
a weird experience, Janet.

976
00:51:56,417 --> 00:51:58,289
Um, you're a witch,
aren't you?"

977
00:51:58,376 --> 00:52:00,378
And I said, "Well,
you know I am. Why?"

978
00:52:02,858 --> 00:52:04,338
He said, "When I went
home the other night,

979
00:52:04,382 --> 00:52:06,775
I parked my car where
I usually park it,

980
00:52:06,862 --> 00:52:09,604
right by the railings
of the old Highgate Cemetery."

981
00:52:09,691 --> 00:52:11,345
[Owl hooting]

982
00:52:11,432 --> 00:52:13,782
I went, "Yeah, so?"

983
00:52:13,826 --> 00:52:18,004
"I saw something, Janet."

984
00:52:18,091 --> 00:52:19,484
"What did you see?"

985
00:52:21,486 --> 00:52:23,531
"I don't know," he said,

986
00:52:23,618 --> 00:52:25,577
"but it scared the hell
out of me.

987
00:52:28,667 --> 00:52:33,454
It was about seven foot tall
with blazing red eyes,

988
00:52:33,498 --> 00:52:35,369
and it was staring at me.

989
00:52:35,413 --> 00:52:37,241
And it was shaped
like a human being,

990
00:52:37,328 --> 00:52:38,807
but I don't know what it was."

991
00:52:41,114 --> 00:52:43,116
He said, "I've never been
so scared in my life."

992
00:52:43,247 --> 00:52:46,380
He said, "I ran.
I absolutely ran to my house."

993
00:52:46,424 --> 00:52:51,385
♪♪

994
00:52:51,472 --> 00:52:53,257
Shortly after that,

995
00:52:53,344 --> 00:52:55,781
David Farrant started
investigating the concept

996
00:52:55,868 --> 00:52:58,175
of the Vampire
of Highgate Cemetery.

997
00:52:58,523 --> 00:53:07,967
♪♪

998
00:53:08,097 --> 00:53:10,970
Farrant wanted publicity.

999
00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:13,190
He contacts a newspaper.

1000
00:53:14,887 --> 00:53:17,368
The journalist wanted to take
somebody along

1001
00:53:17,455 --> 00:53:19,718
who was a natural
born medium --

1002
00:53:19,805 --> 00:53:21,198
muggins here.

1003
00:53:22,547 --> 00:53:25,332
So I'm going to be roped
along to go marching

1004
00:53:25,376 --> 00:53:27,552
into an old cemetery.

1005
00:53:29,293 --> 00:53:30,990
I am a natural medium,

1006
00:53:31,077 --> 00:53:34,254
and I think the idea was that I
was supposed to be able to dowse

1007
00:53:34,341 --> 00:53:35,647
where the vampire was,

1008
00:53:36,387 --> 00:53:38,519
and maybe communicate with it.

1009
00:53:40,826 --> 00:53:44,046
In the meantime, Farrant goes
with a different young lady.

1010
00:53:47,136 --> 00:53:49,443
According
to the newspaper reports,

1011
00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:53,186
the young lady danced naked
on top of the gravestone.

1012
00:53:55,406 --> 00:53:58,278
Farrant, not content with naked
ladies dancing on gravestones,

1013
00:53:58,365 --> 00:54:00,628
decided to slay the vampire.

1014
00:54:00,802 --> 00:54:05,067
♪♪

1015
00:54:05,633 --> 00:54:08,332
- Have you ever seen this --
vampire?

1016
00:54:08,419 --> 00:54:10,029
I have seen it. Yes.

1017
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:13,206
I saw it last February.
And I saw it on two occasions.

1018
00:54:13,293 --> 00:54:14,816
What was it like?

1019
00:54:14,903 --> 00:54:17,602
- It took the form
of a tall gray figure,

1020
00:54:17,732 --> 00:54:20,692
and it -- about eight feet tall,

1021
00:54:20,779 --> 00:54:24,391
and it seemed to glide off the
path without making any noise.

1022
00:54:25,218 --> 00:54:29,831
- Farrant, because he
can't keep his mouth shut, gets arrested.

1023
00:54:29,918 --> 00:54:31,572
Desecration of the dead.

1024
00:54:31,746 --> 00:54:37,099
♪♪

1025
00:54:37,230 --> 00:54:39,058
- In the late '60s
and early '70s,

1026
00:54:39,145 --> 00:54:44,411
the line between fiction and
fantasy became somewhat blurred.

1027
00:54:44,498 --> 00:54:47,762
In fact, they do say that
a Hammer film

1028
00:54:47,893 --> 00:54:49,938
called "Dracula A.D. 1972"

1029
00:54:50,025 --> 00:54:52,854
was directly inspired
by the Highgate Vampire.

1030
00:54:52,985 --> 00:54:55,596
- Well, come on,
before some nosy cop nabs us

1031
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,425
- for loitering with intent.
- Intent to what? Rob a grave?

1032
00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:01,167
♪♪

1033
00:55:01,254 --> 00:55:02,864
- David Farrant used to
come into the shops.

1034
00:55:02,995 --> 00:55:05,911
I would see him.
I got to know him a bit.

1035
00:55:05,998 --> 00:55:11,220
And he was one
of these foppish hippy types.

1036
00:55:11,264 --> 00:55:16,835
He was born to wear a velvet
drape suit and lace cuffs.

1037
00:55:19,316 --> 00:55:22,797
- But in a case of
what-goes-around-comes-around,

1038
00:55:22,884 --> 00:55:27,759
it interests me that when the
Highgate Vampire palaver all began,

1039
00:55:27,846 --> 00:55:29,978
right at the end of 1969,

1040
00:55:30,022 --> 00:55:32,894
an earlier Hammer Dracula film,
"Taste the Blood of Dracula,"

1041
00:55:32,938 --> 00:55:37,072
had been filming
in Highgate Cemetery.

1042
00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:37,986
Action!

1043
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,991
♪♪

1044
00:55:43,078 --> 00:55:45,298
- This may have
stimulated imaginations,

1045
00:55:45,385 --> 00:55:48,519
the fact that a vampire film
was being shot in the cemetery.

1046
00:55:50,259 --> 00:55:53,524
And so eventually we end up with <i> </i>
<i>apparently</i><i>"Dracula A.D. 1972"</i>

1047
00:55:53,567 --> 00:55:55,700
was inspired by
the Highgate Vampire.

1048
00:55:55,830 --> 00:55:57,571
I summoned you!

1049
00:55:57,658 --> 00:55:59,356
It was my will.

1050
00:56:00,748 --> 00:56:02,924
- I think this really is
an indication

1051
00:56:03,011 --> 00:56:08,669
that fiction and fantasy
were bleeding into the real

1052
00:56:08,756 --> 00:56:10,671
or the imagined,
or whatever it might be,

1053
00:56:10,758 --> 00:56:12,804
but nevertheless, stuff that
was happening in the real world,

1054
00:56:12,847 --> 00:56:16,155
in a most intriguing
and off-the-leash kind of way.

1055
00:56:16,242 --> 00:56:20,855
♪♪

1056
00:56:20,942 --> 00:56:24,729
- What is interesting also is
what Farrant was accused of.

1057
00:56:26,339 --> 00:56:28,123
He was accused of
actually doing rituals.

1058
00:56:29,342 --> 00:56:33,999
This is something
that was actually going on.

1059
00:56:34,086 --> 00:56:37,437
Like you see in
"Dracula A.D. 1972,"

1060
00:56:37,524 --> 00:56:41,833
you were having this
whole crowd from Hampstead

1061
00:56:41,963 --> 00:56:45,097
who were experimenting
with cultism using old churches.

1062
00:56:46,533 --> 00:56:49,188
They were dabbling.

1063
00:56:49,318 --> 00:56:51,756
They weren't serious occultists,
they weren't serious witches,

1064
00:56:51,886 --> 00:56:55,107
but they were dabbling around.

1065
00:56:55,194 --> 00:56:59,328
- You can't underestimate
the power of Dennis Wheatley,

1066
00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:02,114
Hammer House of Horror,
Hollywood, all those things.

1067
00:57:02,244 --> 00:57:06,684
- I call on Andras,
Grand Marquis of Hell.

1068
00:57:06,771 --> 00:57:11,993
♪♪

1069
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,082
- A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing.

1070
00:57:14,256 --> 00:57:16,955
♪♪

1071
00:57:16,998 --> 00:57:19,174
They are dabbling.

1072
00:57:19,218 --> 00:57:23,788
And they don't know a demon
from an entity.

1073
00:57:23,831 --> 00:57:26,747
- If enough people believe in
something, it can become real.

1074
00:57:26,834 --> 00:57:28,401
It can materialize.

1075
00:57:28,488 --> 00:57:32,057
♪♪

1076
00:57:32,144 --> 00:57:34,102
So if enough people had believed

1077
00:57:34,189 --> 00:57:37,758
that there was a vampire
in Highgate Cemetery,

1078
00:57:37,889 --> 00:57:39,978
they could manifest this.

1079
00:57:40,282 --> 00:57:46,767
♪♪

1080
00:57:46,854 --> 00:57:50,554
- I was at Highgate Cemetery
a few years ago,

1081
00:57:50,641 --> 00:57:53,252
and I was looking
through the wrought iron gates

1082
00:57:53,382 --> 00:57:55,994
to see if I could see
anybody's gravestones...

1083
00:57:57,735 --> 00:58:00,912
...and I felt something.

1084
00:58:00,999 --> 00:58:03,131
I looked across the lane

1085
00:58:03,218 --> 00:58:06,961
and there was a man in
a stovepipe hat, all in black.

1086
00:58:07,048 --> 00:58:10,791
He was about seven foot tall,
it seemed,

1087
00:58:10,835 --> 00:58:14,578
and in two or three strides,
he was across the lane.

1088
00:58:14,621 --> 00:58:16,275
I saw the Highgate Vampire.

1089
00:58:16,580 --> 00:58:23,543
♪♪

1090
00:58:23,587 --> 00:58:30,594
♪♪

1091
00:58:30,637 --> 00:58:32,726
- Despite the sensationalist
tabloid headlines

1092
00:58:32,857 --> 00:58:36,643
and all the horror films,
the question remained --

1093
00:58:36,687 --> 00:58:38,732
who killed Charles Walton?

1094
00:58:38,776 --> 00:58:40,865
♪♪

1095
00:58:40,995 --> 00:58:43,520
And most puzzling of all, why?

1096
00:58:43,694 --> 00:58:46,305
♪♪

1097
00:58:46,392 --> 00:58:49,351
The Charles Walton Enigma is
not just that of a

1098
00:58:49,438 --> 00:58:50,701
straightforward whodunit.

1099
00:58:50,744 --> 00:58:53,660
It's the enigma
of Britain itself.

1100
00:58:53,747 --> 00:58:56,968
♪♪

1101
00:58:57,098 --> 00:59:01,320
Was Britain's pagan past
secretly alive in the present?

1102
00:59:03,365 --> 00:59:06,151
Or was this just
yet another fantasy?

1103
00:59:06,238 --> 00:59:10,808
♪♪

1104
00:59:10,895 --> 00:59:14,376
- So in 1945, as Fabian's
investigating this crime,

1105
00:59:14,463 --> 00:59:17,597
his first motive for the killing
that he comes up with

1106
00:59:17,684 --> 00:59:19,599
is that it's a robbery.

1107
00:59:19,686 --> 00:59:22,689
[Coins clinking]

1108
00:59:24,212 --> 00:59:25,779
But there is no evidence,
obviously,

1109
00:59:25,866 --> 00:59:27,564
that a robbery occurred.

1110
00:59:29,304 --> 00:59:34,179
So the second theory is
that he was killed by witches

1111
00:59:34,266 --> 00:59:38,575
as part of some sort of
blood sacrifice to the land.

1112
00:59:41,229 --> 00:59:43,101
And according to these theories,

1113
00:59:43,144 --> 00:59:45,538
he was murdered
in broad daylight

1114
00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:48,933
and then there was a pagan dance
ritual around his body.

1115
00:59:51,936 --> 00:59:55,766
It's a village of 493 people.

1116
00:59:55,853 --> 00:59:57,768
They're aware of outsiders.

1117
01:00:01,075 --> 01:00:04,601
If you have a coven of 13 people
walking through the town,

1118
01:00:06,254 --> 01:00:08,126
someone's gonna notice that.

1119
01:00:10,563 --> 01:00:13,610
One of the villagers

1120
01:00:13,697 --> 01:00:14,959
is probably the murderer.

1121
01:00:22,531 --> 01:00:25,622
- When the Charles Walton
murder occurred in 1945,

1122
01:00:27,449 --> 01:00:30,061
basic forms of folk magic
were still carried out.

1123
01:00:30,191 --> 01:00:33,238
[Slides clicking]

1124
01:00:40,637 --> 01:00:42,900
- The origin
of festivities such as this

1125
01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:45,119
at Abbots Bromley
in Staffordshire

1126
01:00:45,206 --> 01:00:47,339
lie centuries back
in prehistory.

1127
01:00:50,472 --> 01:00:57,262
♪♪

1128
01:00:57,349 --> 01:01:04,182
♪♪

1129
01:01:04,269 --> 01:01:11,145
♪♪

1130
01:01:11,189 --> 01:01:13,452
- What you see is the she-male...

1131
01:01:13,539 --> 01:01:18,196
♪♪

1132
01:01:18,326 --> 01:01:20,328
...dancing at the head
of the procession.

1133
01:01:20,502 --> 01:01:25,986
♪♪

1134
01:01:26,117 --> 01:01:28,206
The hobby horse...

1135
01:01:28,249 --> 01:01:34,125
♪♪

1136
01:01:34,255 --> 01:01:36,954
...and the horned dancers,
with the antlers.

1137
01:01:37,041 --> 01:01:41,436
♪♪

1138
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,004
And that festival is
still carried out.

1139
01:01:44,178 --> 01:01:50,489
♪♪

1140
01:01:50,576 --> 01:01:56,887
♪♪

1141
01:01:57,017 --> 01:01:58,671
Beltane is, of course,
May Day...

1142
01:01:58,758 --> 01:02:05,330
♪♪

1143
01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:08,507
...where traditionally
you would jump over a fire

1144
01:02:08,637 --> 01:02:10,857
for the purpose
of fertility in the countryside.

1145
01:02:13,381 --> 01:02:15,819
- They're jumping
through the flames

1146
01:02:15,906 --> 01:02:18,560
in the hope that the god
of fire will make them fruitful.

1147
01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:21,912
♪♪

1148
01:02:22,042 --> 01:02:24,436
- The May Queen appears
at Beltane

1149
01:02:26,264 --> 01:02:28,788
and she's the regrowth
of the land.

1150
01:02:28,832 --> 01:02:32,966
♪♪

1151
01:02:33,097 --> 01:02:35,621
There's actually so much
in the horror films.

1152
01:02:35,664 --> 01:02:41,192
♪♪

1153
01:02:41,279 --> 01:02:43,847
The first example has to be
"The Wicker Man".

1154
01:02:46,893 --> 01:02:50,592
Then films made later,
such as "Midsommar."

1155
01:02:54,074 --> 01:02:56,729
Normally a young girl is chosen.

1156
01:02:56,816 --> 01:03:02,039
♪♪

1157
01:03:02,126 --> 01:03:03,823
Sometimes it was a competition.

1158
01:03:03,910 --> 01:03:11,265
♪♪

1159
01:03:11,439 --> 01:03:19,056
♪♪

1160
01:03:19,143 --> 01:03:22,886
You still see it around in
folklore customs around the UK.

1161
01:03:22,973 --> 01:03:27,194
- You are our May Queen.
- Me?

1162
01:03:27,325 --> 01:03:28,979
- Yes!
- Why?

1163
01:03:29,066 --> 01:03:30,154
You won!

1164
01:03:33,810 --> 01:03:36,813
[Birdsong]

1165
01:03:38,858 --> 01:03:42,122
- The Cotswold Hills
at the bottom of Warwickshire

1166
01:03:42,253 --> 01:03:44,385
in the mid 20th century,

1167
01:03:44,472 --> 01:03:49,303
was one of the most folklore-
saturated parts of England

1168
01:03:49,390 --> 01:03:53,830
and especially the area around
the village of Lower Quinton.

1169
01:03:54,482 --> 01:03:56,833
[Sheep bleating]

1170
01:03:56,963 --> 01:03:59,618
- Warwickshire people seem to
have the same kind of affinity

1171
01:03:59,748 --> 01:04:02,664
with witchcraft that the Welsh
have with singing.

1172
01:04:03,056 --> 01:04:07,974
Today, one of Warwickshire's
best known witches is Irene Ison.

1173
01:04:08,018 --> 01:04:11,021
In fact, she's been called
the Queen of English Witches.

1174
01:04:11,456 --> 01:04:14,633
- There are still
so many self-contained villages

1175
01:04:14,676 --> 01:04:17,592
who really do not like strangers
and don't like visitors,

1176
01:04:17,636 --> 01:04:20,552
and they cover all things up

1177
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:22,467
that they don't want
anybody to know about.

1178
01:04:22,597 --> 01:04:24,382
The communication here,

1179
01:04:24,469 --> 01:04:28,168
although for radio,
television, and telephone

1180
01:04:28,255 --> 01:04:30,388
still people believe in
the old ways.

1181
01:04:31,476 --> 01:04:40,006
♪♪

1182
01:04:40,093 --> 01:04:44,097
- These standing stones on a
ridge above Long Compton village

1183
01:04:44,184 --> 01:04:47,057
are known locally
as the Rollright Stones.

1184
01:04:47,144 --> 01:04:50,843
♪♪

1185
01:04:50,974 --> 01:04:52,366
Covens of witches,

1186
01:04:52,410 --> 01:04:54,412
who, even in these modern times,

1187
01:04:54,499 --> 01:04:57,241
visit the Rollright Stones
in the dead of night

1188
01:04:57,328 --> 01:05:00,722
and dance naked
around his unmoving form.

1189
01:05:00,897 --> 01:05:10,123
♪♪

1190
01:05:10,210 --> 01:05:13,039
- Rollright Stones have very,
very, very strange energy.

1191
01:05:16,738 --> 01:05:19,916
Really a warmth to it
in a strange sort of way.

1192
01:05:22,744 --> 01:05:28,359
♪♪

1193
01:05:28,402 --> 01:05:30,100
It's a great place to work.

1194
01:05:33,886 --> 01:05:36,236
You can get loads of people
into the Rollright Stones.

1195
01:05:38,238 --> 01:05:40,110
I've been to handfastings there.

1196
01:05:42,721 --> 01:05:45,419
It's a nice place.
It's fairly central.

1197
01:05:45,724 --> 01:05:51,295
♪♪

1198
01:05:51,382 --> 01:05:53,297
You can't really park
there very well.

1199
01:05:55,864 --> 01:05:59,651
But it's so open.

1200
01:05:59,781 --> 01:06:02,480
You feel you are somewhere else.

1201
01:06:02,523 --> 01:06:09,748
♪♪

1202
01:06:09,835 --> 01:06:12,620
- One of the
very last real murders

1203
01:06:12,707 --> 01:06:15,362
of somebody connected
with witchcraft

1204
01:06:15,449 --> 01:06:17,756
was that of Anne Tennant...

1205
01:06:19,845 --> 01:06:22,587
...right underneath
the famous prehistoric monument,

1206
01:06:22,630 --> 01:06:24,328
the Rollright Stones.

1207
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:34,120
She was murdered by a farm
laborer called John Heywood.

1208
01:06:36,166 --> 01:06:39,908
He murdered her because he was
convinced that she was a witch,

1209
01:06:39,952 --> 01:06:44,609
and that she had bewitched
both him and his livestock.

1210
01:06:48,613 --> 01:06:52,138
This is not the Middle Ages,
it's 1875.

1211
01:06:52,225 --> 01:06:54,793
And he had killed her
in the same way

1212
01:06:54,923 --> 01:06:56,534
that Charles Walton died.

1213
01:06:56,664 --> 01:06:59,363
He had pinned her down
with a pitchfork.

1214
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,411
♪♪

1215
01:07:04,542 --> 01:07:08,720
And his defense was
that he didn't mean to kill her.

1216
01:07:08,807 --> 01:07:12,767
That he knew --
and this was indeed a very widespread

1217
01:07:12,854 --> 01:07:14,639
popular superstition,

1218
01:07:14,726 --> 01:07:18,556
that you could break
the curse of a witch,

1219
01:07:18,599 --> 01:07:20,906
providing you drew blood
from her.

1220
01:07:23,126 --> 01:07:27,782
And it seems extremely likely
that the person

1221
01:07:27,913 --> 01:07:30,698
who killed Charles Walton
would have known

1222
01:07:30,785 --> 01:07:34,006
how Ann Tennant had died.

1223
01:07:34,659 --> 01:07:38,402
These villagers were only
a few miles from each other.

1224
01:07:38,489 --> 01:07:40,317
They're walking distance.

1225
01:07:42,797 --> 01:07:44,843
- We fear that
witchcraft has returned.

1226
01:07:46,497 --> 01:07:48,368
It is more than witchcraft.

1227
01:07:48,673 --> 01:07:54,809
♪♪

1228
01:07:54,853 --> 01:07:57,986
- When Fabian arrives
in Lower Quinton.

1229
01:07:58,074 --> 01:07:59,684
Obviously, one of
the first things he wants to do

1230
01:07:59,771 --> 01:08:02,861
is establish a motive
for the crime.

1231
01:08:02,948 --> 01:08:05,516
♪♪

1232
01:08:05,603 --> 01:08:09,085
- "What motive?"
I asked briskly.

1233
01:08:09,172 --> 01:08:11,957
"Revenge?
A quarrel?"

1234
01:08:12,044 --> 01:08:15,003
"Well," he hesitated,

1235
01:08:15,091 --> 01:08:17,963
"Perhaps you'd better
look at this."

1236
01:08:18,050 --> 01:08:23,403
"Folk Lore, Old Customs
and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land"

1237
01:08:23,534 --> 01:08:25,405
by J. Harvey Bloom."

1238
01:08:28,234 --> 01:08:34,240
"Puzzled, I read, 'In 1875,
a young man killed a woman

1239
01:08:34,327 --> 01:08:38,375
with a hay-fork because he
believed she had bewitched him.'"

1240
01:08:42,379 --> 01:08:46,078
- But Fabian ultimately
doesn't pursue the angle.

1241
01:08:47,384 --> 01:08:49,081
Too much time has passed.

1242
01:08:52,302 --> 01:08:56,349
But then, in the 1950s,

1243
01:08:56,436 --> 01:08:58,046
a distant relative
of Ann Tennant

1244
01:08:58,134 --> 01:09:00,353
writes a letter to the police

1245
01:09:00,397 --> 01:09:02,486
which makes its way
to Scotland Yard.

1246
01:09:04,836 --> 01:09:06,751
And the letter basically says,

1247
01:09:06,838 --> 01:09:08,883
my great grandmother Ann Tennant

1248
01:09:08,970 --> 01:09:13,236
was murdered in Long Compton
back in 1875

1249
01:09:13,323 --> 01:09:15,325
by a man with a pitchfork.

1250
01:09:18,850 --> 01:09:21,505
The man believed my
great grandmother was a witch,

1251
01:09:21,635 --> 01:09:24,160
and she had a
quote unquote "evil eye."

1252
01:09:28,642 --> 01:09:32,037
And she put a curse on one
of his pigs, and the pigs died.

1253
01:09:32,342 --> 01:09:40,176
♪♪♪

1254
01:09:40,219 --> 01:09:44,397
- The Evil eye, for instance,
has been known to be used there,

1255
01:09:44,528 --> 01:09:49,489
and I've actually seen
this thing used and

1256
01:09:49,533 --> 01:09:52,318
I've seen its effects.

1257
01:09:52,405 --> 01:09:57,193
For instance on animals
such as pigs and then cows.

1258
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:01,153
They can be bewitched
by the power of the evil eye.

1259
01:10:03,329 --> 01:10:08,900
It is a baleful glance
thrown toward the object,

1260
01:10:08,943 --> 01:10:12,338
which is generally
an object of hate.

1261
01:10:12,425 --> 01:10:16,821
And it causes,
well, some misfortune,

1262
01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:20,172
usually some kind of
wasting illness.

1263
01:10:21,913 --> 01:10:23,741
- This sort of
grabs the attention

1264
01:10:23,828 --> 01:10:26,352
of the Warwickshire police,
who first see the letter,

1265
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,747
because obviously Charles Walton
was killed with a pitchfork.

1266
01:10:30,095 --> 01:10:36,319
♪♪

1267
01:10:36,449 --> 01:10:38,973
And number two,
Alfred Potter, the key suspect,

1268
01:10:39,060 --> 01:10:42,890
he'd had a cow die in a ditch
the day before the murder.

1269
01:10:43,630 --> 01:10:48,592
♪♪

1270
01:10:48,722 --> 01:10:52,335
Dead pig in the
Ann Tennant case.

1271
01:10:52,378 --> 01:10:56,513
Dead cow in the Walton case.

1272
01:10:56,556 --> 01:10:59,124
- Did the police believe
that Potter killed Walton

1273
01:10:59,211 --> 01:11:00,604
over the death of this cow?

1274
01:11:00,647 --> 01:11:03,824
♪♪

1275
01:11:03,911 --> 01:11:05,391
Just as Heywood
had killed Tennant

1276
01:11:05,522 --> 01:11:07,437
over the death of his pig.

1277
01:11:09,221 --> 01:11:11,789
Did Potter believe
that Walton was a witch?

1278
01:11:11,876 --> 01:11:15,096
♪♪

1279
01:11:15,749 --> 01:11:22,582
♪♪

1280
01:11:22,669 --> 01:11:24,323
By the late 1960s,

1281
01:11:24,410 --> 01:11:27,065
rumors were starting
to circulate

1282
01:11:27,108 --> 01:11:31,765
that Walton had been odd
in really quite profound ways.

1283
01:11:35,073 --> 01:11:38,076
I grew up in Warwickshire.

1284
01:11:38,119 --> 01:11:40,644
One time we had a lot
of snowfall in the winter,

1285
01:11:40,731 --> 01:11:45,518
and we went sledging on hills
very close to Meon Hill.

1286
01:11:45,562 --> 01:11:51,045
We heard all these stories and
the fact that there was a ritual murder.

1287
01:11:51,089 --> 01:11:53,570
[Screaming]

1288
01:11:53,657 --> 01:11:55,398
The story that I was told

1289
01:11:55,485 --> 01:12:00,533
was that the body was discovered
with frogs pinned to the ground

1290
01:12:00,620 --> 01:12:02,405
all around the body,

1291
01:12:02,448 --> 01:12:05,669
and the frogs were pinned
in various postures.

1292
01:12:06,234 --> 01:12:10,064
♪♪

1293
01:12:10,151 --> 01:12:11,196
- There have been
so many accounts written

1294
01:12:11,327 --> 01:12:14,155
about this case,

1295
01:12:14,242 --> 01:12:19,030
and they all clue into the fact
that Walton was a witch.

1296
01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:22,163
♪♪♪

1297
01:12:22,250 --> 01:12:24,688
Depending on what account
you read,

1298
01:12:24,775 --> 01:12:27,821
Charles Walton bred
Natterjack toads.

1299
01:12:27,865 --> 01:12:31,695
He could talk to animals or
he could forecast the weather.

1300
01:12:31,782 --> 01:12:34,088
He had all these powers
of clairvoyancy.

1301
01:12:34,175 --> 01:12:36,221
The demon walks again!

1302
01:12:36,526 --> 01:12:41,618
♪♪♪

1303
01:12:41,705 --> 01:12:46,840
♪♪

1304
01:12:46,927 --> 01:12:52,672
- He is said to have tied a toy
plow to the leg of a pet toad

1305
01:12:52,759 --> 01:12:55,414
and sent it scurrying
across the local fields.

1306
01:12:55,545 --> 01:12:58,548
[Toads croaking]

1307
01:13:02,987 --> 01:13:04,858
And this is called blasting...

1308
01:13:05,032 --> 01:13:06,947
♪♪

1309
01:13:06,991 --> 01:13:08,645
an ancient which tradition,
apparently,

1310
01:13:08,732 --> 01:13:10,516
of killing fertile soil.

1311
01:13:10,690 --> 01:13:13,127
♪♪

1312
01:13:13,258 --> 01:13:15,173
And so the rumor is
that Walton was killed

1313
01:13:15,303 --> 01:13:18,263
because he bred these toads,
he killed the crops.

1314
01:13:18,350 --> 01:13:21,092
And so the villagers
wanted vengeance.

1315
01:13:21,353 --> 01:13:22,920
- Oh, that's it.
The crops failed.

1316
01:13:24,965 --> 01:13:26,924
- In 1945,
when the murder happened,

1317
01:13:26,967 --> 01:13:30,971
it was quite common
to look for supernatural sources of bad luck,

1318
01:13:31,015 --> 01:13:34,627
such as dead cattle
or personal ailment.

1319
01:13:34,758 --> 01:13:36,716
- Let's chuck her in,
see if she's a witch!

1320
01:13:38,631 --> 01:13:39,850
- The accused could
have had nothing

1321
01:13:39,937 --> 01:13:41,634
to do with the occult at all.

1322
01:13:41,721 --> 01:13:43,506
So it has come to this.

1323
01:13:43,593 --> 01:13:46,160
You accuse me, a priest,
of working with the devil.

1324
01:13:46,247 --> 01:13:47,901
- We can only judge
by the evidence.

1325
01:13:47,988 --> 01:13:50,426
- And there's a lot
of that, old man.

1326
01:13:50,513 --> 01:13:54,038
- Just innocent victims
of spurious accusations.

1327
01:13:54,168 --> 01:13:57,476
As was most likely the case with
Ann Tennant...

1328
01:13:57,563 --> 01:13:58,608
...and Charles Walton.

1329
01:13:58,695 --> 01:14:07,443
♪♪

1330
01:14:07,617 --> 01:14:16,277
♪♪

1331
01:14:16,452 --> 01:14:25,199
♪♪

1332
01:14:25,243 --> 01:14:27,245
Unable to solve the crime,

1333
01:14:29,203 --> 01:14:30,901
Fabian leaves the force.

1334
01:14:32,903 --> 01:14:34,600
He starts writing his memoirs.

1335
01:14:35,645 --> 01:14:38,648
[Typewriter clacking]

1336
01:14:38,735 --> 01:14:42,347
Elements of the supernatural
start creeping in.

1337
01:14:46,003 --> 01:14:48,919
He says that during
the course of his investigation,

1338
01:14:49,006 --> 01:14:51,487
he walks up to the top
of Meon Hill one day

1339
01:14:51,574 --> 01:14:53,184
to look out at the village.

1340
01:14:54,925 --> 01:14:57,710
- "I climbed Meon Hill,
a bleak and lonely spot

1341
01:14:57,841 --> 01:15:00,278
to examine the scene
of the crime for myself.

1342
01:15:00,974 --> 01:15:10,462
♪♪

1343
01:15:10,593 --> 01:15:13,944
A black dog sat
on the nearby wall for a moment,

1344
01:15:14,031 --> 01:15:15,859
then it trotted past me.

1345
01:15:18,165 --> 01:15:21,952
♪♪

1346
01:15:22,039 --> 01:15:24,781
Shortly afterwards, a farm boy
came along.

1347
01:15:24,868 --> 01:15:28,436
'Looking for your dog,'
I asked him.

1348
01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:31,048
'What dog?'
'A black dog.'

1349
01:15:34,704 --> 01:15:36,488
The lad didn't wait
to hear any more.

1350
01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,403
He fled down the hill.

1351
01:15:40,492 --> 01:15:42,581
Instantly, word spread
through the village

1352
01:15:42,668 --> 01:15:45,279
that I had seen the ghost."

1353
01:15:45,584 --> 01:15:50,633
♪♪♪

1354
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:54,158
- He then goes down
to the local pub in the village.

1355
01:15:54,245 --> 01:15:59,119
♪♪

1356
01:15:59,163 --> 01:16:03,254
A scene worthy of something like
"An American Werewolf in London."

1357
01:16:03,297 --> 01:16:05,561
He confronts this group
of yokels,

1358
01:16:05,648 --> 01:16:07,432
tells his story,

1359
01:16:07,519 --> 01:16:10,740
and they all suddenly exit
the bar in silence.

1360
01:16:11,088 --> 01:16:16,180
♪♪

1361
01:16:16,310 --> 01:16:19,400
- "The dog incident caused
a total change of attitude

1362
01:16:19,531 --> 01:16:22,012
towards us in Lower Quinton.

1363
01:16:22,055 --> 01:16:24,971
No longer did anyone cooperate
with our investigation.

1364
01:16:25,015 --> 01:16:27,104
It was like the pulling
down of a shutter."

1365
01:16:29,628 --> 01:16:32,326
- Should the world know
our business?

1366
01:16:32,370 --> 01:16:34,894
- It's murder, then.
- Then murder it is!

1367
01:16:37,201 --> 01:16:40,030
- "I realized for certain
we were up against witchcraft

1368
01:16:40,117 --> 01:16:43,120
when the body of a black dog
was found hanging from a bush

1369
01:16:43,207 --> 01:16:45,252
near the spot where Walton died.

1370
01:16:47,037 --> 01:16:49,039
I advise anybody who is tempted,

1371
01:16:49,126 --> 01:16:52,085
at any time and on any pretext,

1372
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:54,784
to venture into black magic,
witchcraft,

1373
01:16:54,914 --> 01:16:58,178
Satanism,
call it what you will,

1374
01:16:58,265 --> 01:17:00,485
remember Charles Walton.

1375
01:17:00,572 --> 01:17:02,400
Think of his death,

1376
01:17:02,443 --> 01:17:06,970
which was so clearly the ghastly
climax of a pagan rite."

1377
01:17:07,057 --> 01:17:08,754
[Echoing scream]

1378
01:17:09,929 --> 01:17:12,932
[Typewriter pounding]

1379
01:17:17,154 --> 01:17:20,940
- When you read the official
case reports that Fabian wrote,

1380
01:17:23,726 --> 01:17:25,945
he doesn't mention witchcraft.

1381
01:17:27,860 --> 01:17:30,036
Now, he does say the people
of Lower Quinton

1382
01:17:30,167 --> 01:17:32,952
are a secretive lot, and there
might be some sort of history here

1383
01:17:32,996 --> 01:17:35,433
that we're not aware of,
that they're not sharing us.

1384
01:17:37,827 --> 01:17:40,786
Perhaps he kept it out
of his official police reports

1385
01:17:40,917 --> 01:17:43,006
to avoid ridicule.

1386
01:17:44,442 --> 01:17:46,357
You know, you can't turn in
a case report

1387
01:17:46,487 --> 01:17:49,839
to the Commissioner of Police
going, "I think witches did this."

1388
01:17:51,144 --> 01:17:52,363
You're pulling my leg, sir.

1389
01:17:54,670 --> 01:17:56,193
- After Fabian leaves
the force,

1390
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,022
he becomes a real celebrity.

1391
01:17:59,239 --> 01:18:01,589
- This is Fabian
of Scotland Yard.

1392
01:18:01,677 --> 01:18:04,680
- Part of me thinks that Fabian
was a natural entertainer.

1393
01:18:04,854 --> 01:18:08,858
♪♪

1394
01:18:08,901 --> 01:18:12,209
Fabian might have just been
giving people what they wanted,

1395
01:18:12,862 --> 01:18:16,300
stories of witchcraft
and folklore from movies and TV.

1396
01:18:16,387 --> 01:18:18,737
- There's recently been
a murder in this district, as yet unsolved.

1397
01:18:18,824 --> 01:18:20,347
That's why we're interested
in strangers.

1398
01:18:20,434 --> 01:18:23,263
I see.

1399
01:18:23,350 --> 01:18:25,309
My personal viewpoint?

1400
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:28,486
I don't think there's
any evidence whatsoever

1401
01:18:28,573 --> 01:18:30,227
that it was
a witchcraft killing.

1402
01:18:30,314 --> 01:18:35,014
♪♪

1403
01:18:35,058 --> 01:18:38,714
What you have is Alex Sanders
regularly appearing

1404
01:18:38,801 --> 01:18:40,063
in the newspapers.

1405
01:18:42,630 --> 01:18:45,024
Margaret Murray is just trying
to prove her own theory.

1406
01:18:46,765 --> 01:18:50,682
And Fabian is jumping
on a bandwagon.

1407
01:18:50,769 --> 01:18:55,165
♪♪

1408
01:18:55,252 --> 01:18:56,819
- Charles Walton
was living with you

1409
01:18:56,906 --> 01:18:58,037
at the time of the murder?

1410
01:18:58,124 --> 01:18:59,604
Yes.

1411
01:18:59,691 --> 01:19:01,649
- Do you think that
there was any chance

1412
01:19:01,780 --> 01:19:04,174
that witchcraft played
any part in his death at all?

1413
01:19:04,304 --> 01:19:07,307
No. I think, um,

1414
01:19:07,394 --> 01:19:09,440
the papers made a lot of it.

1415
01:19:11,224 --> 01:19:17,404
Um, and I lived with him
all my life,

1416
01:19:17,491 --> 01:19:20,407
and I've never,
never known such things.

1417
01:19:20,538 --> 01:19:23,541
I think it's ridiculous, really,
the things that were said.

1418
01:19:24,977 --> 01:19:27,675
- In his official
police reports,

1419
01:19:27,763 --> 01:19:29,503
there is no mention
of encountering

1420
01:19:29,590 --> 01:19:31,027
a black dog on the hill.

1421
01:19:33,072 --> 01:19:34,639
The black dog is important,
though,

1422
01:19:34,726 --> 01:19:36,510
to the Charles Walton story

1423
01:19:36,554 --> 01:19:39,949
because in the 1929 book
by Harvey Bloom...

1424
01:19:42,473 --> 01:19:47,304
there's a story in there about a
young boy named Charles Walton.

1425
01:19:54,311 --> 01:19:56,400
According to this story,

1426
01:19:56,487 --> 01:19:59,011
young Charles Walton
has put in a day in the fields,

1427
01:19:59,142 --> 01:20:01,274
and he's walking home
and it's misty.

1428
01:20:04,887 --> 01:20:06,845
And he sees something take
shape in the mist.

1429
01:20:06,889 --> 01:20:10,893
♪♪

1430
01:20:11,023 --> 01:20:13,069
Young Charles Walton goes home.
He's terrified.

1431
01:20:13,156 --> 01:20:16,855
♪♪

1432
01:20:16,942 --> 01:20:20,206
- No, sir, a sort of head,
a face.

1433
01:20:20,250 --> 01:20:21,642
Of a fiend?

1434
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:26,082
♪♪

1435
01:20:26,169 --> 01:20:28,171
- He goes back to work
the next day in the fields.

1436
01:20:30,173 --> 01:20:31,565
And the same thing happens
the following night

1437
01:20:31,652 --> 01:20:33,002
when he's walking home.

1438
01:20:33,089 --> 01:20:35,265
[Growling]

1439
01:20:35,352 --> 01:20:40,313
♪♪

1440
01:20:40,444 --> 01:20:42,489
On the third night...

1441
01:20:42,663 --> 01:20:45,841
♪♪

1442
01:20:45,928 --> 01:20:47,016
the spectral hound appears.

1443
01:20:47,103 --> 01:20:52,282
♪♪

1444
01:20:52,325 --> 01:20:55,241
And this time, it's accompanied
by a headless woman.

1445
01:20:55,372 --> 01:20:57,026
[Screaming]

1446
01:20:57,113 --> 01:21:00,420
♪♪

1447
01:21:00,551 --> 01:21:02,553
[Gunshots]

1448
01:21:05,208 --> 01:21:08,080
[Bell tolling]

1449
01:21:08,167 --> 01:21:11,605
Now, according to the story
in the Harvey Bloom book,

1450
01:21:11,736 --> 01:21:15,044
several days later,
Charles Walton's sister dies.

1451
01:21:15,131 --> 01:21:18,134
[Bell tolling]

1452
01:21:27,621 --> 01:21:29,449
And supposedly,
this whole incident gave

1453
01:21:29,580 --> 01:21:32,975
Charles Walton the powers
of clairvoyancy.

1454
01:21:33,018 --> 01:21:35,673
Beware my words, you fools!

1455
01:21:35,716 --> 01:21:37,893
For they are his commands!

1456
01:21:39,807 --> 01:21:41,331
This story is apocryphal.

1457
01:21:41,418 --> 01:21:43,899
No one knows where it came from,
where it originated.

1458
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:47,946
But a lot of people believe
that Charles Walton

1459
01:21:47,990 --> 01:21:50,731
in the 1885 story

1460
01:21:50,818 --> 01:21:54,431
is the same Charles Walton
who got murdered in 1945.

1461
01:21:54,518 --> 01:21:55,911
♪♪

1462
01:21:55,998 --> 01:21:59,001
[Waves crashing]

1463
01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:02,091
Welcome, Poole.

1464
01:22:02,134 --> 01:22:06,182
You have come of your own free
will to the appointed place.

1465
01:22:07,661 --> 01:22:08,706
The game is over.

1466
01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:11,665
Game?

1467
01:22:11,796 --> 01:22:12,797
What game?

1468
01:22:14,755 --> 01:22:17,410
- They say it's better
the devil you know

1469
01:22:17,454 --> 01:22:19,325
than the devil you don't.

1470
01:22:19,456 --> 01:22:22,198
But the murder of Charles Walton
suggests otherwise.

1471
01:22:22,850 --> 01:22:25,027
♪♪

1472
01:22:25,114 --> 01:22:27,246
Perhaps the devil <i>is</i>someone
you know.

1473
01:22:28,508 --> 01:22:32,164
♪♪

1474
01:22:32,208 --> 01:22:34,471
The Charles Walton who,
according to Bloom,

1475
01:22:34,558 --> 01:22:36,212
encountered the dog

1476
01:22:37,953 --> 01:22:40,390
may not have been
the same Charles Walton

1477
01:22:40,477 --> 01:22:42,261
that was murdered on Meon Hill.

1478
01:22:43,741 --> 01:22:46,831
But just because it may
not have been true,

1479
01:22:46,874 --> 01:22:49,616
that wouldn't have stopped
many of the villagers from believing it.

1480
01:22:50,704 --> 01:22:53,620
<i>- You</i>are
the right kind of adult.

1481
01:22:53,794 --> 01:23:00,497
♪♪

1482
01:23:00,584 --> 01:23:05,110
<i>You</i>uniquely were the one
we needed.

1483
01:23:05,197 --> 01:23:07,199
♪♪

1484
01:23:07,286 --> 01:23:12,291
- I feel like particularly
in the last 50, 60 years in Britain,

1485
01:23:12,378 --> 01:23:16,121
there's been a really strong
paranoia around our identity.

1486
01:23:16,208 --> 01:23:18,297
♪♪

1487
01:23:18,341 --> 01:23:20,473
That's kind of true of us today.

1488
01:23:20,647 --> 01:23:25,174
♪♪

1489
01:23:25,304 --> 01:23:27,480
And I think horror
always reflects the time

1490
01:23:27,524 --> 01:23:28,960
in which it's being made.

1491
01:23:30,179 --> 01:23:34,226
In the last decade, this folk
horror trend has really taken off

1492
01:23:34,357 --> 01:23:36,533
- with things like "The Witch"...
- Boo!

1493
01:23:36,620 --> 01:23:38,056
..."Midsommar,"

1494
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:40,363
the films of Ben Wheatley,
like "Kill List."

1495
01:23:41,712 --> 01:23:43,801
The brilliance of these films

1496
01:23:43,844 --> 01:23:47,370
is that they excavate into
the depths of the British psyche

1497
01:23:49,198 --> 01:23:52,810
and churning up all
that we fear about the world

1498
01:23:52,940 --> 01:23:54,464
and about each other.

1499
01:23:54,551 --> 01:23:57,597
♪♪

1500
01:23:57,641 --> 01:23:59,425
- There are these times
that I've kind of spent

1501
01:23:59,512 --> 01:24:01,732
in the countryside.

1502
01:24:01,819 --> 01:24:06,084
There is that palpable feeling
of invasion at times

1503
01:24:06,171 --> 01:24:08,608
when you go to your little,
local supermarket

1504
01:24:08,695 --> 01:24:11,307
or your little butchers
or the pub.

1505
01:24:12,699 --> 01:24:17,661
You arrive and you immediately
break an unspoken rule.

1506
01:24:17,748 --> 01:24:21,447
I think "Men" does capture,
in Rory Kinnear's performance,

1507
01:24:21,578 --> 01:24:23,797
particularly British
idiosyncrasies.

1508
01:24:23,884 --> 01:24:26,931
- Apple from the garden?
- Y-Yeah, it was delicious.

1509
01:24:27,062 --> 01:24:28,889
Scrumping, eh?

1510
01:24:28,976 --> 01:24:31,414
No, no, no, no, no.
Mustn't do that.

1511
01:24:31,544 --> 01:24:32,719
Forbidden fruit.

1512
01:24:32,763 --> 01:24:35,679
- Oh, uh, God. Sorry.
I-I-I...

1513
01:24:35,809 --> 01:24:37,855
- I'm joking.
[Chuckles]

1514
01:24:37,985 --> 01:24:42,251
- There is this immediate
kind of tension that you feel.

1515
01:24:42,338 --> 01:24:44,340
♪♪

1516
01:24:44,383 --> 01:24:45,689
Who are you?

1517
01:24:45,819 --> 01:24:47,125
Why are you here?

1518
01:24:47,212 --> 01:24:49,432
[Clock ticks, chimes]

1519
01:24:49,519 --> 01:24:54,089
There is so much neurosis
about keeping others out

1520
01:24:54,176 --> 01:24:57,440
and maintaining the status quo
within places like that.

1521
01:24:59,094 --> 01:25:03,228
These films portray a constant
state of paranoia in Britain.

1522
01:25:03,315 --> 01:25:04,664
I have a weapon!

1523
01:25:04,708 --> 01:25:06,405
If you come in here,
I'm going to use it!

1524
01:25:06,536 --> 01:25:08,015
[Door bangs, opens]

1525
01:25:08,146 --> 01:25:10,583
- Miss Marlowe, what on earth
are you talking about?

1526
01:25:10,670 --> 01:25:14,109
- You can just see
people getting whipped up

1527
01:25:14,196 --> 01:25:16,894
into a frenzy
over really strange ideas.

1528
01:25:16,981 --> 01:25:20,593
♪♪

1529
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:22,508
This is a country

1530
01:25:22,639 --> 01:25:25,555
that, in order
to make a point of principle,

1531
01:25:25,642 --> 01:25:28,732
is willing to burn things up
and do extreme things.

1532
01:25:28,819 --> 01:25:30,168
- Well, don't you see
that killing me

1533
01:25:30,212 --> 01:25:32,083
is not going to bring back
your apples?

1534
01:25:34,477 --> 01:25:36,696
Summerisle, you know it won't.

1535
01:25:36,783 --> 01:25:39,090
Well, go on, man, tell them!
Tell them it won't!

1536
01:25:40,091 --> 01:25:41,832
I know it will.

1537
01:25:43,877 --> 01:25:45,618
- The final scene
of "The Wicker Man"

1538
01:25:45,662 --> 01:25:49,187
is at once laughable
and horrific.

1539
01:25:49,274 --> 01:25:51,015
And that, to me,
is what Britain is.

1540
01:25:51,058 --> 01:25:59,197
♪♪

1541
01:25:59,241 --> 01:26:07,466
♪♪

1542
01:26:07,597 --> 01:26:11,688
I think in some ways...

1543
01:26:13,820 --> 01:26:15,779
...the Cotswold village

1544
01:26:15,866 --> 01:26:18,085
is the most likely place
in the world for me

1545
01:26:18,173 --> 01:26:21,045
for somebody to sacrifice
someone in a ritualistic way.

1546
01:26:21,132 --> 01:26:24,048
Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ!

1547
01:26:24,135 --> 01:26:29,749
♪♪

1548
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,578
- Our fascination
with the Walton murder

1549
01:26:32,665 --> 01:26:34,189
and "The Wicker Man"

1550
01:26:34,276 --> 01:26:36,539
points to an unease we have

1551
01:26:36,626 --> 01:26:38,628
about ourselves
and what we're capable of.

1552
01:26:38,715 --> 01:26:43,502
♪♪

1553
01:26:43,546 --> 01:26:45,722
Those lovely-looking tea ladies.

1554
01:26:45,809 --> 01:26:48,638
♪♪

1555
01:26:48,725 --> 01:26:50,727
Or the charming butcher.

1556
01:26:50,770 --> 01:26:55,775
♪♪

1557
01:26:55,862 --> 01:26:58,213
They aren't really
who they say they are.

1558
01:26:58,387 --> 01:27:02,391
♪♪

1559
01:27:02,478 --> 01:27:04,349
Beneath the veneer of politeness

1560
01:27:04,436 --> 01:27:06,438
and good manners
lies something darker.

1561
01:27:06,482 --> 01:27:10,486
♪♪

1562
01:27:10,616 --> 01:27:12,705
The enemy is not
the barbarian at the gates,

1563
01:27:12,792 --> 01:27:14,011
clamoring to get in.

1564
01:27:14,098 --> 01:27:16,970
♪♪

1565
01:27:17,014 --> 01:27:19,234
The enemy is already inside.

1566
01:27:19,408 --> 01:27:25,240
♪♪

1567
01:27:25,327 --> 01:27:26,937
The enemy within.

1568
01:27:26,980 --> 01:27:29,592
♪♪

1569
01:27:29,635 --> 01:27:31,898
Quite literally,
the devil you know.

1570
01:27:32,072 --> 01:27:37,948
♪♪

1571
01:27:38,035 --> 01:27:40,429
- We know the terrible things
we've done to each other.

1572
01:27:40,516 --> 01:27:44,433
♪♪

1573
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:47,392
We know the bad things
we're doing to each other today.

1574
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:50,047
♪♪

1575
01:27:50,177 --> 01:27:52,397
[Shouts indistinctly]

1576
01:27:52,571 --> 01:27:57,968
♪♪

1577
01:27:58,055 --> 01:27:59,578
Because we know ourselves.

1578
01:27:59,752 --> 01:28:03,452
♪♪

1579
01:28:03,582 --> 01:28:05,236
And we know that deep down...

1580
01:28:05,323 --> 01:28:10,328
♪♪

1581
01:28:10,372 --> 01:28:11,677
...it's possible.

1582
01:28:11,808 --> 01:28:15,899
[Screaming]

1583
01:28:29,173 --> 01:28:38,835
♪♪

1584
01:28:38,878 --> 01:28:46,146
♪♪

1585
01:28:48,671 --> 01:28:50,847
[Giggles]

1586
01:28:50,890 --> 01:28:57,157
♪♪

1587
01:28:57,201 --> 01:29:01,161
- "The Teletubbies" was almost
entirely filmed on location

1588
01:29:01,292 --> 01:29:03,686
in the corner of a field
on a farm

1589
01:29:03,816 --> 01:29:05,905
on the edge of the Cotswolds.

1590
01:29:05,992 --> 01:29:09,039
Cameras always angled down
to include the rabbits

1591
01:29:09,126 --> 01:29:10,867
and the Teletubbies,

1592
01:29:10,910 --> 01:29:12,738
but if they'd just gone up
slightly,

1593
01:29:12,825 --> 01:29:14,653
they would have seen
the surrounding countryside

1594
01:29:14,784 --> 01:29:17,221
and, of course, Meon Hill.

1595
01:29:17,308 --> 01:29:21,268
♪♪

1596
01:29:21,356 --> 01:29:23,314
I was the original Tinky Winky,

1597
01:29:23,401 --> 01:29:26,796
the first actor
to inhabit that purple costume

1598
01:29:26,839 --> 01:29:28,275
with the triangular aerial.

1599
01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:29,625
- Uh-oh.

1600
01:29:29,712 --> 01:29:32,454
- Laa-Laa and Po and I

1601
01:29:32,541 --> 01:29:35,370
lived in a country house hotel,

1602
01:29:35,500 --> 01:29:38,416
and sometimes I'd take them
for a drive in my little car.

1603
01:29:38,503 --> 01:29:42,812
♪♪

1604
01:29:42,942 --> 01:29:46,598
And one day drove off
trying to find Meon Hill.

1605
01:29:46,642 --> 01:29:50,123
♪♪

1606
01:29:50,210 --> 01:29:54,171
And then we saw a sign saying
"private property, keep off."

1607
01:29:54,301 --> 01:29:57,479
But the lane was so narrow, we
couldn't actually turn round,

1608
01:29:57,566 --> 01:29:59,045
so we had to keep going.

1609
01:29:59,219 --> 01:30:05,487
♪♪

1610
01:30:05,574 --> 01:30:08,272
And as we got into the driveway,

1611
01:30:08,403 --> 01:30:11,841
this ferocious black dog
attacked the car.

1612
01:30:11,884 --> 01:30:14,104
[Dog barking]

1613
01:30:14,191 --> 01:30:20,240
♪♪

1614
01:30:20,327 --> 01:30:22,634
And then the front door opened
of this house

1615
01:30:22,765 --> 01:30:26,682
and this ferocious man
just started shouting at us.

1616
01:30:26,769 --> 01:30:28,074
[Shouting indistinctly]

1617
01:30:28,248 --> 01:30:32,165
♪♪

1618
01:30:32,252 --> 01:30:34,472
- He was quite evil
in his appearance,

1619
01:30:34,559 --> 01:30:36,866
and it just felt
like the black dog

1620
01:30:36,953 --> 01:30:38,781
and the man
with the shaggy beard

1621
01:30:38,911 --> 01:30:41,479
were almost like
two manifestations

1622
01:30:41,566 --> 01:30:43,438
of the same evil spirit.

1623
01:30:43,612 --> 01:30:49,792
♪♪

1624
01:30:49,879 --> 01:30:55,188
Charles Walton saw a black dog
on nine consecutive mornings.

1625
01:30:55,275 --> 01:30:57,147
[Dog growling]

1626
01:30:57,234 --> 01:31:00,629
♪♪

1627
01:31:00,672 --> 01:31:03,936
I can't help wondering
whether that black dog

1628
01:31:03,980 --> 01:31:05,938
was the same black dog

1629
01:31:06,025 --> 01:31:09,376
that nearly hurled itself
through the window of my car.

1630
01:31:09,464 --> 01:31:11,248
[Dog barking, snarling]

1631
01:31:11,335 --> 01:31:13,729
♪♪

1632
01:31:13,816 --> 01:31:16,383
The filming went extremely well
throughout the summer.

1633
01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:19,386
The director told me
what I was doing was fantastic,

1634
01:31:19,474 --> 01:31:22,564
but the BBC didn't like
my performance,

1635
01:31:22,607 --> 01:31:25,784
and they wanted me
to be removed from the role.

1636
01:31:25,915 --> 01:31:28,526
So afterwards I got fired.

1637
01:31:28,570 --> 01:31:33,531
♪♪

1638
01:31:33,618 --> 01:31:35,402
The "Sunday Mirror"
approached me,

1639
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:37,622
and I told them about Meon Hill.

1640
01:31:37,709 --> 01:31:40,538
♪♪

1641
01:31:40,625 --> 01:31:43,759
How I experienced extremes
of good fortune

1642
01:31:43,802 --> 01:31:47,763
and extremes of bad fortune.

1643
01:31:47,893 --> 01:31:51,027
And I can't help thinking
that that earth energy

1644
01:31:51,114 --> 01:31:54,857
around Meon Hill
actually had an effect.

1645
01:31:54,900 --> 01:31:58,121
And they say it's a place
of power.

1646
01:31:58,208 --> 01:32:02,952
Well, the Teletubbies had a
huge impact all over the world,

1647
01:32:03,039 --> 01:32:06,085
and it all emanated
from that little place

1648
01:32:06,172 --> 01:32:07,913
just next to Meon Hill,

1649
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:12,222
the site of the most recent
satanic black magic murder.

1650
01:32:12,309 --> 01:32:19,359
♪♪

1651
01:32:19,534 --> 01:32:26,758
♪♪

1652
01:32:26,802 --> 01:32:33,896
♪♪

1653
01:32:33,983 --> 01:32:41,164
♪♪

1654
01:32:41,251 --> 01:32:48,432
♪♪

1655
01:32:48,475 --> 01:32:55,613
♪♪

1656
01:32:55,700 --> 01:33:02,707
♪♪

1657
01:33:02,881 --> 01:33:10,019
♪♪

1658
01:33:10,106 --> 01:33:17,287
♪♪

1659
01:33:17,374 --> 01:33:24,555
♪♪

1660
01:33:24,642 --> 01:33:31,823
♪♪

1661
01:33:31,867 --> 01:33:38,961
♪♪

1662
01:33:39,048 --> 01:33:46,098
♪♪

1663
01:33:46,272 --> 01:33:53,410
♪♪

1664
01:33:53,497 --> 01:34:00,678
♪♪

1665
01:34:00,722 --> 01:34:08,077
♪♪