The Witches Spell

By T. Stokes

The front page of the Ely Standard for August 28^th 2008 carried the story that a Witch called Kevin Carlyon was to put a spell on the anniversary celebrations for Oliver Cromwell’s death on September 6^th.

This is the latest public in a series of curses put out by Witches since the W.W.II curses against Hitler, then in 2006 the curse against Tony and Cherie Blair, for betraying Britain into a false war and  Bombing  Iraq, and now the spell to stop the Cromwell celebrations.

The accusation is that Oliver Cromwell saw and did nothing to help people from all over the country but particularly East Anglia from being imprisoned, tortured and hanged, under Mathew Hopkins the Witchfinder general, when over 300 people are said to have been murdered Between 1645 and 1647.

Twenty local people were charged with witchcraft and imprisoned in Ely jail, now the museum.

The Bible written largely in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, is not clear on what a witch actually is, the Hebrew word for Witch is kaskah, which meant a poisoner, liar or keeper of serpents.

 There is no doubt that King Charles the first did not value or respect his subjects, and needed to go. And, love him or hate him. in order to finance the New Modal army in the civil war, Cromwell from his H.Q. at the Inn at Saffron Walden, allowed back the Jewish moneylenders who were thrown out of Britain centuries before.

The only time Christ in the bible lost his temper and smashed the place up, was over the money changers in the temple. The crime of usury cuts deep in Christianity yet this was actually condoned by contemporary Christian clerics.

At Cromwell’s death on Sept 3^rd 1658 a flock of crows was seen cawing round the house. A bird of ill omen, it was said at the time it was a sign of damnation.

Oliver Cromwell on horseback and the Military enactments were seen on the Cathedral green on 10 until 4 Saturday Sept.6^th. and only with slight rainfall!

Curses notwithstanding!

With thanks to Catherine Atkinson