Part 1 of 2 RITUAL ON MEON HILL | The Witchcraft Murder of Charles Walton (1945) | Unsolved Mystery, True Crime, Paranormal, Folklore

On Valentine’s Day, 1945, the peaceful village of Lower Quinton in Warwickshire was shaken by one of Britain’s most brutal and mysterious murders. Charles Walton, a 74-year-old farm labourer, was found gruesomely slain near Meon Hill—his body pinned to the ground with a pitchfork, his throat slashed by his own billhook. What at first seemed like a horrific act of violence soon spiralled into something stranger. With ritualistic overtones, missing charms, and a long history of folklore surrounding Meon Hill, whispers of witchcraft emerged almost immediately. Scotland Yard’s top detectives were baffled. Was this a crime of superstition and fear—a modern-day witch killing? Or something more calculated and mundane disguised in ritual?.

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Source Information:

http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/

http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0

https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/

https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.html

http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm

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