Good news for laid-off witches everywhere: a witch cave in England is hiring.
Wookey
Hole, a sketchy theme park in Somerset, needs
a witch to live in its cave and teach visitors witchcraft, the BBC
reports. Duties
include cackling, casting spells and not being allergic to cats. Oh,
and performing for the live Cave Cam.
After the former witch retired for undisclosed reasons, Wookey Hole is now offering aspiring witches 50,000 pounds a year. That's like $100,000! And we thought Hogwarts grads were unemployable.
The employee benefits, though, are slim. Daniel Medley, a representative from Wookey Hole, said that the witch will have to face harassment and discrimination on a daily basis. Taking flack from the community is basically what the job is all about.
"Wookey Hole wants the appointee to go about her everyday business as a hag [...] like in the Dark Ages," he said. "This was when an old woman lived in the caves with some goats and a dog, causing a variety of social ills, including crop failures and disease."
Ritual stonings from tourists will likely be one of the position's main hazards. The witches, of course, are expected to accept this treatment with kind-hearted stoicism, keeping in mind Wookey Hole's larger project of promoting a return to traditional English values.
