Patricia Crowther, known as the UK’s oldest witch, has died at the age of 97. Crowther was a follower of the Wicca pagan religion, developed by Gerald Gardner, who in the 1950s took over a witchcraft museum on the Isle of Man and is credited with rescuing the practice from obscurity. She was known as a “high priestess” and in the 1970s she and her husband, Arnold Crowther, co-created A Spell of Witchcraft, a BBC Radio Sheffield series that is credited with introducing modern witchcraft to a wider audience. Crowther…
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