“Now I remember Gloucestershire vicar Nick Bromfield warning Foresters not to dabble in the occult after a sheep's head was put on a pole outside one of his churches. And here we have some snow pixies dancing round nude in the order of the trees proving he was right. Seemingly harmless events such as pub psychic nights and crystal readings can cause untold damage. Really agusting behavior I am startled at finding 13 crystal glasses and 7 empty gin bottles all covered in lipstick and onions”

“Nick my friend I think someone is pulling your cassock!!! There will always be those sicko pranksters who think this sort of thing is funny, and the forest is not short of these type of idiots - I see them coming out of the pub, evenings, regularly honey!!!!!! Please ignore the idiots - it's only fuelling their idiocy by all this notoriety! They are nothing but sickos and get their jollies by winding folk up - take away their fun by ignoring them - they'll soon stop. Bless you for caring anyway!!! xxx”

“A few comments found on this story around the web:

"It might sound medieval to talk about the relationship between good and evil".
Yes, it does, Rev. One of your parishioners is a nutter. Get over it.

"difficult to quantify" - you mean you're just making it up as you go along?

Nick - Pot meet Kettle.

More stories of Satanism unleashed on little villages, please Guardian...

I've seen signs of satanic activity in the forest."
By whom? Please, do tell...
This "vicar" seems to know an awful lot about "satanic" worship... GET HIM!!!!

The Morning Star Published: "The Rev Nick Bromfield discovered the severed sheep head mounted on a pole outside his church and immediately sought to warn his congregation that they shouldn¿t dabble in the black arts." .............ahh we get it now, it says his congregation is dabbling!!!

I used to play pranks like that all the time when I was a kid, that made the local press too!
The difference was our vicar told the reporters "it's not satanists, it's just stupid b****y kids!"

carcasses have been found laid out in a ritualistic fashion at at least two other locations in the area. - - TWO OTHER? Always in the right place at the right time, who is prime suspect?

Such hypocrisy from the wicked church. Open up the Vatican vaults and lets allow the world to know what they've collected and have been doing since their origins. Even a LeMarchand box is in their possession.

Sounds like an opportunist to me. Some nut case is mutilating animals, and the "Good Vicar" is doing his "job" by using it as a opportunity to scare his parishioners into either returning to his church (read: leave the "tea leaves" and psychics alone) or he's trying to increase his numbers, because they were falling. Typical, nothing new here.

"Damage"....Like using fear tactics?

If he didn't say something once in a while, he'd be in danger of looking obsolete, even redundant.

So he's only saying the things he says so that he can keep his own job.

Thomas Danforth, magistrate at the Salem Witch Trials, related to Samuel Danforth whose Daughter Mary (1663¿1734) married EDWARD BROMFIELD (1649¿1734) in 1683. ..........ANY RELATION PERHAPS??????”

“Many Anglican clergy are now having to deal with bloody sheep's heads on poles. In fact, it is one of the most popular hobbies the laity have. Church-goers are asked to take their sheep's heads home with them and not to decorate the Church grounds after Mattins.”

“Now The Guardian has a hold on this claptrap released by The Rev and has the area painted slightly differently again:
"The Forest of Dean has long been regarded as a place of ghosts, big cat sightings and other strange happenings. In drama it was immortalised by Dennis Potter in his strange play for the BBC, Blue Remembered Hills, in which a boy is burned to death.

Bromfield said he was receiving increasing requests for him to bless homes in his district because their owners feared something is amiss.

The sheep's head is the latest sign of black magic worship in the area surrounding his churches."................

He'll be writing a book next and expecting us to buy it to support the coffers that were funded like an MPs expense claim . I'd rather read and pay for Paula Meek's Vampire Trilogy or David Devereux - Memoirs of an Exorcist.”

“If Nick The Rev needs to increase funds and attendance, then surely an appeal would've been better than running this trumped up offending article? But then we are forgetting the previous Forester Article:

Last week (MAY 2009) The Forester reported that the Church of the Holy Jesus is in financial troubles after claiming £27,000 Gift Aid it was not entitled to.

The parish now has to repay a loan of £18,466 made by the diocese to stop Inland Revenue litigation.

Mr Bromfield persuaded the Bishop of Gloucester Michael Perham to save the church from bankruptcy but parishioners have been told they need to raise more money if they want to safeguard its future.

*Hmm I see.”

“My parish is very different to the Rev. Nick's one. We do not have hundreds of evil Satanists running around here NOR do we encourage ritual animal sacrifice, far from it!
I will be offering a cut-price exorcisms this coming weekend and I invite you all to attend.
God bless you all.”

“I need a drink after reading this scary report!”

“What a scaremongerer! Our self appointed Witchfinder-outer is also a fibber. He does NOT know lots of pagans in the Forest. I've spoken to 13 (!) over the weekend, and NONE have ever spoken to Nick The Vic. These are not shy and retiring types but active witches anad wiccans in this community. We hold a very public monthly meeting in a pub in the Forest, and we would welcome The Rev for a debate - but not his evangelising. We have our own faith, and we don't try and shove it down the throats of others.
What is most concerning is his tale of dead animals laid out in circles, and the story about his sheeps head. Is this for real? Were the Police involved at any stage of all this? Also, sheeps heads are really very hard to burn. Did he keep the skull? That at least would be some kind of evidence, but a photograph of the offending article would be more realistic in terms of the truth.
This on line debate is very interesting, as it has thrown up a lot of views about what is a tricky subject - so tricky few dare name it... Satanists! Now, satanism only exists in a symbiotic relationship with christianity - they simply play the opposites of what the church stands for. I doubt hugely that there is actually a satanic group here in the Forest - except in the Rev's head. Or perhaps he has been reading a few too many Alan Rickman books?
Bright Blessings on all who read this, and I hope this debate can continue, but with a little bit more truth and substance than we have been offered.
Finally, there is new legislation in place which outlaws ALL forms of religious hatred and intolerance. If the Rev had come out against muslims or jews he would be (rightly) castigated. the fact that he is coming out against satanists makes no difference whatsoever. If he continues, or indeed extends his attacks on the witch community, then I sincerely hope the satanists or our own Pagan Federation take proper legal steps to put this deluded vicar in the dock to answer for his foolish attitudes.
In Love & Light
Tim”

“I can't believe people are stupid enough to attempt black magic. Even if nothing happens as a result of whatever you do, it still screws with your mind. Whether you're a Christian or not is irrelevant really - it's utterly ignorant.

Fair play to the vicar for coming on here and braving the boards!”