The mysterious Highcliffe (or New Forest) Coven and the night they conducted "Operation Cone of Power," In the late 1930s, a retired civil servant called Gerald Gardner moved to the Highcliffe area at the edge of the New Forest and eagerly joined a local esoteric group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship. However, Gardner claimed he found there an even more clandestine inner circle: a secret and ancient, pre-Christian witch cult that had supposedly survived in the forest, undiscovered, for centuries. Although modern historians have extensively disputed the genuine ancient roots of this particular group — establishing Gardner's writings much more...