Upcoming events.
Witchy Film Night: Simon King of the Witches (1971)
What is better than watching a witch film? Watching a witchy film at a witchcraft museum, that’s what!
Come and join us in a film night at the museum to watch the magical, witchy film the classic Simon King of the Witches (1971).
We also offer popcorn, sweets, and soft drinks while you enjoy the museum.
Celebrating the Museum's 1st Birthday- LIVE ONLINE EVENT
IT’S THE MUSEUM’S 1ST BIRTHDAY!!! I know people worldwide love to visit the Museum but cannot due to being in a different country and other commitments. So…..I want to throw an online Live Event (also recorded) to celebrate the Museum’s 1st Birthday with all our international friends and neighbours.
The night’s event will include a virtual tour of the museum by the director and Curator Ash William Mills, a discussing of his favourite items on display, some storytelling, and a midnight interactive séance with a 100-year-old Ouija Board.
Healing Circle Gathering
Come join our experienced spiritual healers in a sacred space where there will be shamanic drumming, grounding, and meditative paths working to help you release your everyday stresses and reconnect with the earthly energies and life force that is all around you. This spiritual experience has made people more goal-focused, re-energized, and ready to face New Year with a clean perspective.
Our healers are:
Ash William Mills- Scottish Folk Healing, Gaelic mysticism & spirituality & Spirit Doctor.
Faracy Moon Grouse- Reiki and crystal healer and pagan priestess.
Rune Magic and Divination Workshop
Returning to the Museum……..
Rune Magic and Divination Workshop
By Pi Bertilsson
In this workshop, you will learn rune magic and divination from a native Swedish practitioner. You will learn about the history, how to use the runes for spiritual growth, and the deeper meaning behind what many people believe are ancient letters.
How can I learn the runes in 24 days by carrying them with me? What does Bjarka stand for, and how can I use her energy daily? Is it a Futhark or a Uthark we are working with? How do I use the runes as tools for a deeper understanding of myself?
All these questions and more will be answered during this class. Pi is a Swedish pagan who has worked with the runes in divination and as a path to spiritual development for thirty years.
For all those who can not attend the in-person workshop, there are tickets to watch the Live viewing via Zoom. Recording will also be avaible to watch after the workshop has ended.
Tickets: £7.50
Imbolc Ritual & Workshop
Join us in an evening of Ritual, Magic, and creativity in celebrating the Celtic festival of light, renewal, and the coming of the Goddess and Saint Brigid.
This event is both a celebratory ritual and a workshop in weaving the magic of Imbolc into your life and home. You will learn how to make a Brigid’s Cross to take home with you, traditional Gaelic rituals and prayers to Brigid, and be given blessed Brigid candles. These candles will be lighted a candle which were lit from the sacred flame at the Solas Bhríde Centre in Kildare, Ireland when I attended the centre in 2016. 5% of the sales of the tickets will be donated to the Solas Bhríde Centre to help with the maintenance of this amazing spiritual centre dedicated to saint/goddess Brigid.
Witchy Film Night: Practical Magic (1998)
What is better than watching a witch film? Watching a witchy film at a witchcraft museum, that’s what!
Come and join us in a film night at the museum to watch the magical, witchy film Practical Magical (1998), based on Alice Hoffman’s novel.
We offer popcorn, sweets, and soft drinks while you enjoy the museum.
Healing Circle
Come join our experienced spiritual healers in a sacred space where there will be shamanic drumming, grounding, and meditative path working to help you release your everyday stresses and reconnect with the earthly energies and life force that is all around us.
This spiritual experience has made people more goal-focused, re-energized, and ready to face New Year with a clean perspective.
Your healers:
Ash William Mills- Scottish Folk Healing, Gaelic mysticism & spirituality & Spirit Doctor.
Faracy Moon Grouse- Reiki and crystal healer and pagan priestess.
First Footing: How to Magically Enhance Success for the New Year
Liminality is a very magical thing; it is the betwixt time when all things hang in the balance, and magical influence can indeed sway its direction and certainly New Year's Eve is quite the most crucial liminal time of all! All things can be created and set into motion within these primal points in time and space. The traditions of Hogmanay or New Year's Eve still practiced today are all good magical practices for ensuring and obtaining abundance, health, and propensity.
In this talk, learn the magic of New Year’s Eve, the veracity of customs and practices in a magical context, and how to use Spell craft to enhance success for the new year. Along with Ash’s own magic tricks and tips on how to influence the power of Hogmanay to truly having a happy new year!
This talk will be recorded live via Zoom so all those who can not attend the live can watch later. The Zoom invite for this talk will be sent by email 3 hours before the talk begins,
Rune Magic and Divination Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn rune magic and divination from a native Swedish practitioner. You will learn about the history, how to use the runes for spiritual growth, and the deeper meaning behind what many people believe are ancient letters.
How can I learn the runes in 24 days by carrying them with me?
What does Bjarka stand for, and how can I use her energy daily?
Is it a Futhark or a Uthark we are working with?
How do I use the runes as tools to a deeper understanding of myself?
All these questions and more will be answered during this class.
Pi is a Swedish pagan who has been working with the runes for thirty years in divination and as a path to spiritual development.
Witchy Film Night: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Come join us for another film night at the museum. On Sunday, 26th November at 19:30, we will be showing the Sleepy Hollow film (1999) as well as offering refreshments such as drinks, popcorn, and other sweet snacks.
This Witchy Film Night is only limited to 15 people, so book ASAP to ensure a seat.
Witch- Women on Trial Performance
Witch- Women on Trial!
An Edinburgh Fringe Hit Show of 2023
Natalie Lyon has been a talented storyteller and performer for many years now with Witch-Women on Trial being one of her popular yet, performing all around Edinburgh and a big sell-out performance during the Fringe Festival. She also this year, appeared on STV’s filming on ‘Women in Performance and Arts tackling taboo subjects’ at the museum: https://news.stv.tv/v/the-all-women-fringe-circus-act-tackling-taboo-subjects
Witch- Women on Trial is a theatrical performance that displays the life, torture, and trials of Scottish women accused of witchcraft and devilish practices by Kirk and the state. Be it a humble housewife, hard hard-working servant, or a strong-minded and outspoken woman, Natalie embodies the voices of these Witches!
This performance will have you stitches of laughter, tears of sorrow but most of all, the feel of being a 17TH CENTURY WOMAN!
Halloween Film Night- Hocus Pocus (1993)
Come join us for another film night at the museum. On Sunday 29th October, we will be showing the original Hocus Pocus film (1993) as well as offering refreshments such as drinks, popcorn, and other sweet snacks.
This film night is only limited to 20 people, so book ASAP to ensure a seat.
Victorian Séance Experiance
Come and join us on the Saturday before Halloween, marked by the ancient Celts as a time when the veil between the world of the living and the dead is thin. Step back in time over 100 years ago, gather around a table in candlelight, and experience what it is like to be in a Victorian séance.
Why not add to the fun and dress up in Victorian clothing? Your spirit mediums conducting the séance will surely be dressed for the occasion!
At the end of the séance session, you will get the chance to handle and see in person some genuine artifacts used during the spiritualist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries.
An Introduction to Tea Leaf Reading
An Introduction to Tea Leaf Reading- Ash William Mills (curator)
What to know how to learn the ancient art of reading tea leaves? What sort of teapot and cup to use? Types of fortune-telling cups. Explore the different blends of tea leaves and how each can be effective in tea leaf reading.
This workshop will be teaching you the basics of tea leaf reading as well as the tips and tricks learned myself over the years and being taught to me by my great aunty Nora.
Autumn Equinox, Mabon, Michaelmas with the Agents of Magick
Join the Agents of Magic as we explore the magic of the coming Autumntide through ceremony, story, song, and craft!
Card readings and other fortune-telling will be offered afterwards!
Space is limited, secure your place now. Buy a ticket in advance. Pre-book for £7, Entry on the day is £10.
The Autumn Equinox is the time of equal day and night that marks the passing into the dark time of year.
It is a time to pay homage to the Sun and Solar Gods, such as Mabon and Michael, as their time is passing but we seek their inspiration and light as we move into the dark.
It is a time to give thanks for the bounty of the Earth and its fertility as the last of the summer harvests are completed, autumn apples and grapes ripen, winter food plants are going into the ground and fields are strengthened for the next spring growing season. In this moment we remember and honour the awesome power of nature to renew itself.
At this moment as the Sun enters topical Libra and rises due east and sets due west, it is a natural moment for gratitude and give time to marvel at the time of deepest ripening. It is time to begin to seek protection as autumn is too a sign of winter's chill.
Tide and time, for nae man bide: Pattern, Intention, Magic
Time, as with all things, moves in patterns, some say cycles, others spirals. Attending to such patterns and coming to know the various influences cycles bring, we can pick opportune, auspicious moments for our magical operations, as well as shape our intentions to align with these currents in our spell-casting making them most effective through the power of sympathy.
In this workshop you will learn about the importance of timing and intention; timing with the Seasons, the Sun, and Earth-Sky-Sea patterns; the role of the Moon and lunar days: use of planetary days and planetary hours: basic applications of astrology; and explore several “folk” magic timings.
The workshop will culminate with the casting of a spell aligned the moment to apply what was learned.
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” But, what may be done at a time will be done on time at the right time.
About the Presenter:
John-David Kelley finds his way through portent and presence. He hails from the urban jungle of NYC, the springs of southern Alabama, and the rolling dunes of Florida's Gulf Coast. J-D is a child of wyrd-ness and delightfully dances in the play of the living cosmos.
J-D is a student of magical and mystical traditions both young and old and an enthusiastic practitioner of astrology and astral magic. He has been flirtatiously engaged with Reclaiming Witchcraft tradition since 2002, as of late with the Dragonrise WitchCamp and with eclectic witchcraft formally since the age of thirteen. For the last eleven years, he has lived in England and Scotland, reconnecting with his ancestors of blood and practice, as well as, the tutelary spirits of these lands.
J-D endeavors to weave the threads of practice and place between the old world and the new. He takes a pan-poly-animist view in most of his goings-on.
A Dram o' History
A Dram O' History
Join award-winning Actor Michael Nardone (Rome, Line of Duty, Traces) for a single malt whisky and a gentle wander through 2000 years of Scottish History. A heart-warming storytelling experience with live music and songs along with a complimentary dram of whisky to enjoy!
Witchy Film Night at the Museum
Come join us for a night at the museum to watch vintage and classic witchy films. Every Tuesday and Thursday starting at 20:00.
Serving snacks and drinks while you enjoy the film.
Week one- Bell, Book, and Candle. Directed by Richard Quine (1958). With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs.
August 1st & 4th
Week Two- So I Married a Witch. Directed by René Clair (1942). With Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, and Susan Hayward.
August 8th & 10th
Week Three- Simon King of the Witches. Directed by Bruce Kessler (1971). With Andrew Prine, Brenda Scott, George Paulsin, and Norman Burton.
August 15th & 17th
Week Four- The Craft. Directed by Andrew Fleming (1996). With Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True.
Live tour of the Museum
Come join me as I lead you on a live guided tour around the museum for those who can’t physically attend the museum.
Exhibits include:
The History of the Devil
The Witch trials in Scotland
Magic & Sorcery
Traditional Household magic
History of Divination
The Spiritualist Movement
The History of Fortune-telling
Modern witchcraft & Neo-paganism
This Month’s Exhibit: Witches & Pagans, and the LGBTQ+ Counterculture
The Live tour lasts an hour with 10 mins at the end for Q & A time.
Honouring Isobel Gowdie-3rd Annual Event (Copy)
Come join us in honouring the memory of the world’s renowned accused witch in Scotland Isobel Gowdie with an evening celebrated by Art, literature, and performance inspired by her story and confessions.
This event will be hosted both Live streaming and in-person (limited tickets) attendance.
The evening’s presentations include:
15:00-15:30- Ash William Mills- an introduction and talk by Author and museum curator on Isobel Gowdie-The Women, the Witch, and wise-women of Auldearn.
15:30-16:30- Helen Wright is an artist, storyteller, and writer from Auldearn. She is well known locally for the mural in Auldearn village which visually depicts Isobel Gowdie’s life. Helen will be discussing her artwork and poetry which was inspired by Isobel Gowdie and she will be presenting photos of the mural itself.
16:30-17:00- Break
17:30-18:30- Martin Dey is a local author in Dundee to a series of non-fictional and historical novels in which he will be doing a book signing and reading of his 4th book titled Isobel Gowdie: Alas that I should compare him to a man.
18:30-19:00- Evenings performance: Witch? Women on Trial
The true story of the Witches. Humour and horror are woven together with empathy in a shocking insight into the untold stories of ordinary women caught up in a whirlwind of politics, religion, and magic. Be prepared to laugh, and to cry, at the injustices served through their stories.
Honouring Isobel Gowdie-3rd Annual Event
Come join us in honouring the memory of the world’s renowned accused witch in Scotland Isobel Gowdie with an evening celebrated by Art, literature, and performance inspired by her story and confessions.
This event will be hosted both Live streaming and in-person (limited tickets) attendance.
The evening’s presentations include:
15:00-15:30- Ash William Mills- an introduction and talk by Author and museum curator on Isobel Gowdie-The Women, the Witch, and wise-women of Auldearn.
15:30-16:30- Helen Wright is an artist, storyteller, and writer from Auldearn. She is well known locally for the mural in Auldearn village which visually depicts Isobel Gowdie’s life. Helen will be discussing her artwork and poetry which was inspired by Isobel Gowdie and she will be presenting photos of the mural itself.
16:30-17:00- Break
17:30-18:30- Martin Dey is a local author in Dundee to a series of non-fictional and historical novels in which he will be doing a book signing and reading of his 4th book titled Isobel Gowdie: Alas that I should compare him to a man.
18:30-19:00- Evenings performance: Witch? Women on Trial
The true story of the Witches. Humour and horror are woven together with empathy in a shocking insight into the untold stories of ordinary women caught up in a whirlwind of politics, religion, and magic. Be prepared to laugh, and to cry, at the injustices served through their stories.
Creating the Goddess by Faracy Moon Grouse
Join Faracy Moon Grouse on a guided journey to creating your own 3 dimensional alter icon. All materials are provided, but participants are most welcome to bring their own brushes and anything else they feel their icon needs. We will discuss our relationship with the divine and then dive into the clay.
Jādū and 'ajā'ib: Magic and Wonders according to medieval Persians
Explore magic in medieval Persia by Dr. Ali Shapouran. Talk presented at the Museum of Magic. Fortune-telling & Witchcraft.