OCCULT CRIME WAVE.

In an echo of Dr Eric Dingwall's work as a police consultant on criminal cases with occult angles [see FT300:50-54], the Police Pagan Federation (PPA) have been called in to assist Hampshire Constabulary, who are investigating a series of grisly crimes with elements of black magic in and around the village of Bramshaw. The Rev David Bacon, 57, vicar of St Peter's for the past 15 years, said: "There's been witchcraft round here for hundreds of years-the New Forest is well known for witchcraft and black magic happening, and this has obviously gone up a level." Simon Wood, a former police officer and a member of the New Forest Pagans of Ytene group, said: "There are lots of clans in the New Forest. [Extracted from the article]