John Alden Jr: What do they want, these terrible witches?
Cotton Mather: The same thing we all want: a country of their own.
(WGH's Salem, 2012)
[There] were so many of them [the witches] that they thought that, if they were able to remain at large for just one more year, they might have raised up a king from among them.
Hans Fründ, Report on Witchcraft in Valais (1475)
What is the Third Kingdom of the Witches?
Easily told.
Kingdom the First: the Celtic Dobunni of the Cotswolds and Severn basin, circa 100 b.c.e.
Kingdom the Second: the Anglo-Saxon Hwicce, their heirs both cultural and genetic.
Kingdom the Third: the eponymous Witches, their latter-day children, now in world diaspora.
What is the Third Kingdom of the Witches?
Easily told.
Us: the Younger Witchery.