Evan John Jones (1936–2003) was an English traditional witch, occultist and writer who operated within the tradition of

Cochrane's Craft Cochrane's Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a form of traditional witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught in the tradition by some of his elderly family members, a ...

Early life

An engineer, he served in the Army as a young man and saw active duty as a paratrooper in the

Suez crisis The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...

of 1956 and fighting communist insurgents in

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.Interview in ''The Cauldron'', 2003

Career

Following Robert Cochrane's death in 1966, he served as the second Magister of the

Clan of Tubal Cain Cochrane's Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a form of traditional witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught in the tradition by some of his elderly family members, a c ...

from 1966 to 1998.

Publications

During his lifetime, he authored two books on the subject of the Craft, ''Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed'' (1990) and ''Sacred Mask, Sacred Dance'' (1996), the latter co-written with American

Pagan studies Pagan studies is the multidisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of modern paganism, a broad assortment of modern religious movements, which are typically influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various pagan beliefs of premodern ...

scholar Chas S. Clifton.

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