Doreen Valiente - Portrait of a Witch

This is a tale about a witch called Doreen Valiente a researcher, a poet, and an author who is still revered as the ‘mother of witchcraft’.

This is a tale about a witch called Doreen Valiente a researcher, a poet, and an author who is still revered as the ‘mother of witchcraft’.

I moved to Brighton in 1987 and as a young woman, I was enamoured by the number of esoteric shops that existed in the North Laine. There were crystal shops, cafes full of fortune-tellers, and second-hand bookshops co…