'Windfall for Perth "priestess"', The Scotsman, 6 March 1964

The Scotsman, 6 March 1964, page 7. Gerald Gardner, who died in February 1964, has left the bulk of his £25,000 estate to Monique Wilson of Nimmo Avenue, Perth, described as high priestess of a Scottish coven, with £3,000 to Patricia Crowther ("Mrs Arnold Crowther") of Sheffield. The day before, Monique, her husband Campbell and their daughter Yvette left Perth for the Isle of Man. The photograph, headed 'So even witches drinka pinta', shows the broom, cauldron and empty jug marked "Best Toad Venom" left at their back door, and the housing estate caretaker speaks of seeing skulls and a horned head. How to cite: 'Windfall for Perth "priestess"', The Scotsman, 6 March 1964, p. 7. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

SO EVEN WITCHES DRINKA PINTA … An empty jug labelled “Best Toad Venom,” a broomstick, and a cauldron lie beside more prosaic milk bottles at the back door of 45 Nimmo Avenue, Perth, the home of Mrs Monique Wilson. Windfall for Perth “priestess” The Isle of Man’s self-styled “White Witch,” Dr Gerald Brosseau Gardner, who died last month at the age of 80, has left the bulk of his £25,000 estate to Mrs Monique Wilson, of Nimmo Avenue, Perth who claims to be high priestess of a Scottish coven of witches. A legacy of £3000 goes to another “witch,” Mrs Arnold Crowther, of Sheffield. Yesterday Mrs Wilson and her husband Campbell (40) left Perth for the Isle of Man with their daughter Yvette (8). Mr Wilson was employed as a clerk at the Scottish Gas Board’s Friarton depot. He resigned last week. On the doorstep of their prefab home last night the Wilsons left an old-fashioned broom and an empty bottle marked “Best Toad’s Venom.” In the garden were the remains of a bonfire, and nearby a discarded cauldron. The caretaker of the housing estate, Mr Sebastian Ramsay, spoke of seeing “skulls and a red-tinted head with horns sticking out of it.”