British Cryptids: The Hereford Twiggywitch (Special Edition)
While restoration continues on 'The Woodwose of Cannock Chase', we present here a special extended version of The Hereford Twiggywitch. Included in the additional material is a short but illuminating clip of the Blackthorn Morris performing 'The Twiggywitch'.
"Were it not for the physical evidence left behind, the Twiggywitch would belong very firmly in the supernatural realm of fairies, elves and goblins. But written accounts dating from as far back as the 1700’s invariably describe a very real, though rarely seen, living creature."
Produced in 1974, the British Cryptids films were presumably destined to be sold to a UK broadcaster - either BBC or ITV - but they seem to only have been shown at schools and ended up languishing in public libraries.
The video files - originally recovered from the Internet Archive - were fragmentary, jumbled up and missing picture in places. We have pieced together the clips as best we can and leave it to the viewer to imagine what may be missing.
Amongst the titles we were able to acquire are: ’The Souter Sea Wolf’, ‘The Cumbrian Dregpike’, ‘Yorkshire Yeti’, ‘Stag Men’, 'The Woodwose of Cannock Chase', ‘The Hereford Twiggywitch’, 'The Ramflaggie of Argyll' and 'The Moon Man', but the catalogue numbers suggest there could be more.
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