Young woman holding a dagger and candle at the counter-ceremony, 7 March 1985

Photograph, 7 March 1985. Photographic print of a young woman in a dark dress and a long lace shawl worn over her head, holding a ceremonial dagger upright in one hand and a lit candle in the other, against a dark, sloping ceiling. Taken by Jimmy Burke at the ceremony to lift the curse on the BLODS production, reported in the Bexhill Observer on 7 March 1985, item 167, and printed with the caption '"Jane" holds aloft one of the ceremonial daggers used in the ceremony'. The museum lists the print as 'Jane'. The paper gives no surname and she is not identified further. Byline: Jimmy Burke. Bexhill Museum item 168. Print from the Bexhill Observer photographic archive at Bexhill Museum. Shown in UNSEEN: The Alex Sanders Archive at Bexhill Museum, Part Three, The Vacant Throne (6 September 2026), presented by Julian Porter of Bexhill Museum and hosted by Sharon Day for Alexandrian Witchcraft. Young woman holding a dagger and candle at the counter-ceremony, 7 March 1985. (1985). Bexhill Observer photographic archive, Bexhill Museum. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive. https://www.alexandrianwitchcraft.com/archive/bexhill-museum-168-jane-with-ceremonial-dagger