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Scotland: Grampian Police have foolishly accepted the 'advice' of self-appointed witch king Kevin Carlyon, claiming he's helped catch horse abusers in the past. He specifically claimed he had helped police in Hampshire to catch a "horse ripper" in 1993, but a Hampshire police representative told the Prattle that they have no record of this whatsoever.
According to King Kevin, the high point of the Pagan calendar is the Winter Solstice not Samhuinn as Christian fundies insist. He told The Scotsman
There's a nasty black magic cult in the north of Scotland. I know that on top of the cases which have been reported, many more have not. The police are looking into it and I want to help in any way I can. We are not talking about schoolkids here, but people who believe they can summon up Satan and fly. We are talking about people who believe they are pagans and work on the old calendar, culminating at the winter solstice on 21 December. In the old tradition, cutting off a horse's tail is supposed to make you fly. They think it will make them like Pegasus. I have seen this pattern before and my instinct tells me that the attacks won't stop here.
The Winter Solstice will fall on December 22nd this year.
There will be an interview with John Macintyre about the attacks on tomorrow's Lesley Riddoch show on BBC Radio Scotland, and there's a chance that King Kevin will be on the show too. In a message sent to Pagan mailing lists, Val Dobson notes:
The show will be taking messages and calls: Telephone 0500 92 95 00, text 07940 92 95 00. To email you have to fill in a form here. If you're in Scotland, please listen and maybe send in a message. What's most important is to counter the claims of KC. His claims include: Putting a Death Curse on Prince Charles & Lady Diana when he was refused permission to perform a ritual to Herne in Windsor Great park; Providing major assistance to Hampshire Police in a horse mutilation case in 1993 and giving further help in other cases in Wiltshire in 1999
He's made other claims about helping the police in various cases over the years. If anybody has hard info that counters any of his nonsense, could they please post it here and I'll collect it pass it on... Even if KC doesn't appear on the show, it's important to gather some facts to counter him. Far too many journos rely on him as an "expert" on witchcraft, so we need to show them that he's a puffed-up windbag with no real knowledge.
White witch invited to help police after series of attacks on horses—The Scotsman, November 2nd 2002 (thanks Val).
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1: Posted by: Balder | June 13, 2003 8:47 AM
If I remember the famous Uri Gellar ( however you spell it ). Kevin seems to be a clone of him. When publically challenged he dissapeared off the scene. Pity I dont have the financial resources to take this so-called king of whatever to task. He might then do a Uri and dissapear until the challenger also dies....Knowing of course that he will be shown to be a fake..I strongly object when he claims to be My Priest..He is like a T.V. preacher in the U.S. all mouth and show but no substance at all..But he will still keep convincing single celled newspaper reporters and jeornalists that he has any right at all to make his foundationless claims..I would like to challenge him to come to a Pagan festival with a reporter and see if they treat him as the preist he claims to be..Or is it a god?? That is so funny it`s unreal.... I am a Pagan and you aint my god mate O.K.
2: Posted by: Kevin Carlyon | August 5, 2003 12:18 PM
I'd like to thank all those who are sending me adoration and worship. Jealousy brings many people to me and I can convert the negativity that some send to positivity for people. Keep up the good work. Why don't you lot out there do something real to promote what you supposedly believe in.
May my Magic be with YOU
Kev the Witch
3: Posted by: Dr Fluff | November 24, 2003 10:55 AM
I am King Kev the Witches pussy cat. I love him as he is the true 'Living God' Meow Purr
4: Posted by: louise | December 11, 2003 3:09 PM
you should not talk about kevin like this he is my friend and you should not be doing this to him you are so mean
5: Posted by: Red Wolf | December 11, 2003 10:41 PM
If you're really nice, Louise, I'm sure King Kev can summon up some punctuation and uppercase letters for you.
And if you happen to actually be a close personal friend of Kevin's, then judging by your poorly constructed comment, our next article on the man himself with be cross-categorised under naughty vicars who induulge in little girls.
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