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- George_Pickingill abstract "George Pickingill (c.1816 – 10 April 1909) was an English farm labourer and cunning man, or vocational folk magician, who lived and worked in the village of Canewdon in Essex, eastern England. He employed magical means to offer cures for ailments and to locate lost property, although was also recorded as threatening to curse people's property. During his lifetime and following his death he attracted limited press attention for his erroneous claims to being one of the oldest men in England.Pickingill was only brought to wider public attention by the folklorist Eric Maple in the early 1960s, as part of his research into beliefs regarding folk magic and witchcraft in nineteenth-century Essex. Collecting oral history from local residents in the area, Maple established a number of stories about Pickingill and his reputation as a cunning man. Although it has been suggested that local people were inventing claims to please Maple, many of which were based on older tales regarding the Essex cunning man James Murrell, subsequent research by historian Ronald Hutton has confimed the folklorist's original accounts.In the 1970s, the occultist E.W. "Bill" Liddell began publicising claims that secretive hereditary witch families had informed him that Pickingill was not simply a rural cunning man but that he was a major figure in the nineteenth-century esoteric scene. According to Liddell's account, Pickingill was a member of a hereditary witch-cult, leading a Canewdon coven and forming nine other covens across southern England. Liddell claimed that Pickingill reformed the established English witch-cult by introducing new concepts from French and Danish witchcraft and from Classical sources, and that in doing so, Pickingill created the structure from which Gardnerian Wicca emerged in the 1950s. Liddell's claims have been discussed in print by prominent Wiccans like Doreen Valiente and Lois Bourne, and have also been analysed by historians and scholars of Pagan studies like Maple, Hutton, Owen Davies, and Aidan A. Kelly, all of whom have rejected his claims as spurious.".
- George_Pickingill birthDate "1816".
- George_Pickingill birthPlace Essex.
- George_Pickingill birthPlace Hockley.
- George_Pickingill birthYear "1816".
- George_Pickingill deathDate "1909".
- George_Pickingill deathDate "1909-04-10".
- George_Pickingill deathPlace Canewdon.
- George_Pickingill deathPlace Essex.
- George_Pickingill deathYear "1909".
- George_Pickingill occupation Cunning_folk_in_Britain.
- George_Pickingill occupation Farmworker.
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- George_Pickingill 2y "1965".
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- George_Pickingill 2y "2012".
- George_Pickingill 2y "2014".
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- George_Pickingill birthDate "Circa 1816".
- George_Pickingill birthPlace "Hockley, Essex".
- George_Pickingill caption "Photograph of Pickingill taken in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Owned by Lillian Garner, it was first published by Maple; in 1977 the original copy was given to Michael Howard".
- George_Pickingill children "Martha Ann, Charles Frederick, Mary Ann, George".
- George_Pickingill dateOfBirth "1816".
- George_Pickingill dateOfDeath "1909".
- George_Pickingill deathDate "1909-04-10".
- George_Pickingill deathPlace "Canewdon, Essex".
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- George_Pickingill name "George Pickingill".
- George_Pickingill name "Pickingill, George".
- George_Pickingill occupation "Cunning man, farm labourer".
- George_Pickingill parents "Charles Pickingill, Susannah Cudner".
- George_Pickingill placeOfBirth "Hockley, Essex".
- George_Pickingill placeOfDeath "Canewdon, Essex".
- George_Pickingill quote ""The Lugh corpus was expressly written to be confrontational. Several surviving Craft families, a number of solitaries, and my own Brethren were at first amused - and then alarmed - at the Witchcraft beliefs being propounded by Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders. The tenets of Wicca bore little resemblance to the rites and practices of Traditional Witchcraft in England. My Brethren decided to take the bull by the horns and find a public platform to explain that there were a number of disparate witch traditions."".
- George_Pickingill quote ""The rites [George Pickingill] drafted emphasised ritual nudity, nature worship, the unity of the Goddess, female dominance, the five fold kiss – without the words 'Blessed Be' – the Drawing Down of the Moon, the Goddess Charge, the Legend of the Goddess, induction by the opposite sex, a tri-gradal initiation structure, the use of magical cords etc. It is difficult not to recognise the basic features of what is now Gardnerian Wicca."".
- George_Pickingill quote ""When my sister and I were children, we wanted to ride our pony and trap to Rochford Fair; but that day the beast just wouldn't move, no matter what we did with it. Then we suddenly saw George Pickingill staring at us with those terrible eyes of his. He came over and told us to put down the reins and not to interfere with the pony at all. Then he whispered in its ear for a few minutes and stood back and hit it; and it started off, and found its way down the lanes to Rochford, without our needing to touch it."".
- George_Pickingill quote ""[George Pickingill] was more famous in his heydey than Crowley was in his. Old George was acknowledged as the world's greatest living authority on witchcraft, Satanism and black magic. He was consulted by occultists of every hue and tradition who came from all over Europe, England and even America."".
- George_Pickingill quote ""[Pickingill] still gets his own meals ready, and fills in odd moments by pottering about in the garden. 'Yes, I'm a hundred and five,' he said, 'and feel good for another 20 years. I was born in Hockley, and I've been in these parts, working on farms, all my life. I only stopped working at 90.' The aged man has never seen a railway train. A Press representative took the 'old boy' for a ride round in a motor car, much to his delight. 'I'd like to go to London on it,' he said. 'I've never been to London.' When asked how to live to be 105, he laughed and said, 'You just go on living - that's all.' He still likes his pipe of tobacco and mug of ale."".
- George_Pickingill shortDescription "British cunning man".
- George_Pickingill source "--09-19".