What a find! The Power Of The Witch is a documentary about witchcraft as it was practised in the late 60s and early 70s in the UK - apparently it was only screened once and there is practically no information about it on the web. From the uploader taitsitarot‘s YouTube description:

An extremely rare documentary about Witchcraft aired once in the UK in 1971. Featuring contributions from Eleanor Bone, Cecil Williamson, Alex & Maxine Sanders [above], Doreen Valiente et al. Very much of its time and with some very rare footage, also includes reference to the famously unsolved murder of Charles Walton on Meon Hill.

The Power Of The Witch is worth a watch even if you are not particularly interested in the occult - rather watch it as a document of its time, capturing as it does people’s attitudes, beliefs, fashions and plummy Brit accents. It’s a curious mixture of patriarchal stiff upper lip-ism and unerring belief in both Christianity and the forces of magic, making it feel very much as if it comes from a completely different era. Not to mention, it’s a goldmine of potential witch haus footage:
 

 
Thanks to Seth David Rodriguez!

All the types of things people will believe in and do to escape (or try to) their own culpability and responsibility.  And then there’s the people who capitalize on the guilt…

i was doing tons of Golden Dawn magic a few years ago and bought every witchy book i could get my hands on. the girl in the photo above was on the cover of one of the best looking but most useless of those books. different outfit and pose but same photo shoot.

magic (or i guess even “witchcraft”) is like A.A.; it works if you work it, girl.

Tried to watch this today but the uploader has made the video private…

Works fine for me.

If you like this you should check out Legend of the Witches which is available on DVD, it is a feature length black and white documentary featuring lots of footage of Alex and Maxine Sanders (Maxine is the blonde woman in the picture above) “Firechild” is the autobiography of Maxine Sanders and definitely worth a read for those interested. The form of Witchcraft they practised is still alive and well today and known as the Alexandrian tradition. As an Alexandrian myself, these documentaries are always fun and fascinating to watch.

There are some amazingly ridiculous people in this film. The Christ’s Army guy! What a card!

The first 24 minutes of this are good, but then it switches to “Beware Satanists!” for the second half and is total rubbish. Shame too as it starts out so well.

Tellingly when they shift to the second half they start by showing clips of Charles Manson before cutting directly to LeVay. Of course they never actually interview anyone who claims to be a Satanist and those they do interview look like they are reading off badly written cue cards. More shock spectacle than documentary really. But the first 20 minutes are good.

I don’t know, man. The guy running the tourist trap witch museum in the second half is pretty priceless, what with his detailed descriptions of coven-meeting-as-G8-summit.

Not everyone believes that witches only appear only on Halloween.

No, they also appear to be toddling around the back garden, drinking cooking sherry and spouting sophomoric verses about the moon.