'That was the witch that was', Wolverhampton Express and Star, 18 February 1963

Wolverhampton Express and Star, Monday 18 February 1963, page 13. Reporter Mark Kersen meets a young man who walks into the paper's office calling himself Vulcan and saying he is a witch. Vulcan was the name used by Robert Turner. He says he is 20, does not work, and belongs to a coven of nine that has just fought 'an occult battle with the black magician in the circle'. He will not give his real name or say where the coven meets, but shows a copper band on his left wrist inscribed VULCAN, marking him Keeper of the Thunderbolt and Blacksmith of the Gods, and describes a temple in his home. The report is printed with a drawing of the disc he carries, the pentacle he says binds him to secrecy. 'We worship the horned God which represents fertility but it is nothing to do with the Devil.' The paper followed up six weeks later, when Kersen took Vulcan to a lecture on witchcraft. That report, 'My pal Vulcan the witch', is also in the archive. How to cite: Mark Kersen, 'That was the witch that was', Wolverhampton Express and Star, 18 February 1963, p. 13. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.