Here’s a chapter about a strangely comic episode from the mid 19th century that didn’t make the final edition of the book due to space considerations…. The Halifax Witch Doctor ‘The plaster and the pills, and the bottle that I gave him would fotch t’ watter from him. The pills are harmless. I know whatContinue reading “Weird Calderdale Bonus Chapter ~ The Halifax Witch Doctor”
Author Archives: Paul Weatherhead
Weird Calderdale: New Edition available now!
Ghosts, aliens, vampires, witches, wizards, outlaws, mysterious deaths, horrible murders and hysterical mass panics in Halifax and the Calder Valley. This new edition of a local history cult classic has been fully revised and greatly expanded to include 20 chapters of fully referenced West Yorkshire weirdness. Support your local bookshop: buy Weird Calderdale from theseContinue reading “Weird Calderdale: New Edition available now!”
Paul Weatherhead 