Newspaper Article
'Coven's high priestess replies', Bexhill Observer, 17 May 1975
- Historical date
- 1975
- Location
- Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
- Category
- Newspaper Article
- People
- Betty Britton, Alex Sanders
- Source
- Bexhill Observer archive, Bexhill Museum (item 122)
- Contributed by
- Bexhill Museum
- Added to the archive
About this item
Bexhill Observer, 17 May 1975. Betty Britton, of Chantry Cottage, Old Town, named here as high priestess of the Bexhill coven, replies to the town clergy's warning of 3 May. She applauds the Church's fight against evil but hopes it will not 'plunge the country back into the Dark Ages of prejudice', asks why the clergy declined an invitation to attend a ceremony, denies belief in Satan or any desecration of churches, and challenges the ministers to publish the source of the three vows they… attributed to witches. She closes: 'We will quietly continue to practice our craft of Alexandrian Wicca, with the guidance of our teacher, Alex Sanders'. This is the first appearance of the word Alexandrian in the Bexhill Observer.
Bexhill Museum item 122. Bexhill Observer cutting held in the Bexhill Observer archive at Bexhill Museum.
Shown in UNSEEN: The Alex Sanders Archive at Bexhill Museum, Part Two, What the Town Did With It (26 August 2026), presented by Julian Porter of Bexhill Museum and hosted by Sharon Day for Alexandrian Witchcraft.
'Coven's high priestess replies', Bexhill Observer, 17 May 1975. (1975). Bexhill Observer archive, Bexhill Museum. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive. https://www.alexandrianwitchcraft.com/archive/bexhill-museum-122-covens-high-priestess-replies
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