Welcome to Bell Book and Candle. We are a new Old Age Store meaning that many of our products are helpful in the Old Religion practices. I am still in process of adding and changing things and I have much work to do yet. In the mean time I thought I would give a little background to the name "Bell Book and Candle".

There was a movie made in the 50's that was called "Bell Book and Candle" and this movie which stared Kim Kovak (she plays Gillian) and Jimmy Stewart (he plays Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson) was my introduction to Witchcraft. Little did I know how it would influence me and how glad I am that it did. The story is cute and I think an appropriate name for a Pagan shop.

I am going to quote IMDB now because they word it so nicely.

Gillian's cat is named Pyewacket. This name has become a popular one for cats because of this movie, but few know its origin: Pyewacket was one of the familiar spirits of a witch detected by the "witchfinder general" Matthew Hopkins in March 1644 in the town of Maningtree, Essex, UK. He claimed he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman. She was arrested and deprived of sleep for four nights, at the end of which she confessed and named her familiars, describing their forms. They were: * Holt * Jarmara * Vinegar Tom * Sacke and Sugar * Newes * Ilemauzer * Pyewacket * Pecke in the Crowne * Griezzel Greedigutt * Hopkins says he and nine other witnesses saw the first five of these, which appeared in the forms described by the witch. Only the first of these was a cat; the next two were dogs, and the others were a black rabbit and a polecat. So it's not clear whether Pyewacket was a cat's name or not. As for the meanings, Hopkins says only that they were such that "no mortall could invent." The incident is described in Hopkins's pamphlet "The Discovery of Witches" (1647).

You can buy the movie at my Amazon Store  I have books and music in the store as well. As soon as I get everything set up and start getting some hits here I will set up the book club.

With that said I want you to know that I am still working on this site and it will continue to be a work in progress.

Thanks for stopping by. Cheers