Wookey Hole Caves, near the village of Wookey, Somerset held a competition recently for the post of witch at the local tourist attraction.
Contestants had 60 seconds to make their pitch in front of a panel. Carole Bohanan, a real estate agent, bested 400 or so others and walked off with the job. As the resident witch, Carole will work under the name Carla Calamity.
The job comes with an annual stipend of 50,000 pounds sterling.
Legend has it that an old woman did once live there, with her dogs and her goats, her spells making life miserable for the locals.
Eventually, a monk from Glastonbury was sent for and Father Bernard, together with his bible and a candle, went in to see if he could sort the situation out
He failed. The witch ran off into the depths of the cavern, cursing and screaming.
So the monk scooped up some water from the cave, blessed it and threw it at the witch. She and her dog were turned to stone and can still be seen in the cave today.
Now given a choice, something suggests that people on the west coast of Newfoundland might prefer shelling out a few hundred thousand annually for a local Carla. If nothing else, she’d be a much better draw than say some massive steel erections in a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Don’t think so?
Just take a gander at the winner.
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