- Cassandra Latham
Cassandra Latham is a British
witch . She lives and works in the small community ofSt Buryan ,Cornwall .She is notable as being the first person in the UK to have registered her occupation as 'village witch' with the
Inland Revenue . Although others have since followed suit, she remains the only person in the UK for whom witchcraft is her sole source of income.Fact|date=September 2007She is a
committee member of thePagan Federation as Vice President overseeing campaigning.In the late eighties Latham was a student at the experimental
Dartington College of Arts , where she completed a Bachelors degree in theatre. Before enrolling in this program she had served as a nurse, caring for the builder of theMinack Theatre ,Rowena Cade in the last years of her life.External links
* [http://www.villagewisewoman.co.uk/ Home Page]
* [http://www.cornishwitchcraft.co.uk/index.htm?cunning-folk.htm~mainFrame Cunning Folk of Cornwall by Gemma Gary]
* [http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/people/cassandra_latham.htm Biography on Cornwall Guide]
* [http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/aburnham/pers/sounds.htm Cassandra speaking at a conference in 2000, before she became Vice President of the PF]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010804/ai_n14403463 Cassandra being interviewed in the Independent in 2001, also before she became Vice President of the PF]
* [http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/press/en/content/177/ CNN press release, dated 2006]
* [http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/secretcornwall.htm Secret Cornwall by Andy Norfolk, dated 2003]
* [http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=7121 Cassandra in a 2002 Cornwall County Council press release]References
*"Seven Cornish Witches" by Kelvin I. Jones (1998).
Penzance : Oakmagic Publications. ISBN 1 901163 56 3
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