'Bizarre History of a King', Winsford Chronicle, 18 December 1969

Winsford Chronicle, Thursday 18 December 1969, page 6, in the paper's Bookshelf column. A warm review, signed W. S. R., of June Johns's King of the Witches (Peter Davies, London, 35s), calling it 'a most readable and remarkable book' and 'a very strange life story brilliantly told'. The reviewer traces Sanders's path from white witchcraft into a period serving 'the powers of darkness' and back to clairvoyance and healing, and doubts only the explanations given for the events described. Printed with a photograph of June Johns and Alex Sanders handling a fith-fath, a wax or plasticine figure used in spell work. How to cite: W. S. R., 'Bizarre History of a King', Winsford Chronicle, 18 December 1969, p. 6. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

BIZARRE HISTORY OF A 'KING' KING OF THE WITCHES By June Johns (Peter Davies, London; 35s.) June Johns has written a most readable and remarkable book. Obviously the product of a trained journalistic mind, and a mind, too deeply interested in the ways of witches, the book, whilst not intended as a study of witchcraft, is in fact the biography of Alex Sanders, “King of the Witches.” In the telling is exposed by word and picture the strange and bizarre history of this “king” – “one of the most powerful of living witches.” Fantastic as the story is, it nevertheless has about it the ring of truth. The great question that arises is the validity of the reasons given for so many of the happenings described. Claimed to have been manipulated as the result of contacting "power", people, other than witches, would, I think, prefer to rely on the long arm of coincidence. Graphically the book follows Alex Sanders along the path of white witchcraft into the portion of his life when his allegiance was to the powers of darkness; then through a period of atonement back to “white” practices of clairvoyance and healing. In fine, a very strange life story brilliantly told. If you believe in witches, black [or] white, the book is for you. I[f] you do not believe, here is food for thought. W. S. R. [Photo] June Johns and Alex Sanders, the subject of her book, discuss a fith-fath, a model on which spells can be worked.