Fiction

Cannot be written that is weirder than real life.

A job centre is advertising a “witch” vacancy with tourist site Wookey Hole, in Somerset, for £50,000 a year.

The witch, who has to live in the site’s caves, is expected to teach witchcraft and magic.

Wookey Hole staff say the role is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch and do the things witches do.

The advert for the post, placed in the local press as well as job centres, says applicants must be able to cackle and cannot be allergic to cats.

Of course. Cats. They’ll be your co-workers.

“Wookey Hole wants the appointee to go about her everyday business as a hag, so that people passing through the caves can get a sense of what the place was like in the Dark Ages.

“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.”

I know the Harry Potter series are filmed in the UK, but that someone actually believes a person could cause a crop failure without actually lighting said crops on fire, I find disturbing.

And that isn’t even the silly part!

Due to sexual discrimination law, the job cannot demand that the post is filled by a woman.

Under sexual discrimination law, unless Wookey Hole can provide “documentary proof that the original witch was female it can’t issue a gender-specific job description”.

Of course, dudes will have to dress like a woman, because that’s the character they’ll be playing. But I understand from my many rounds of playing the game “Gay or British”, that many Brit males like to dress in women’s clothes, so that might just work swimmingly for someone.

Found via CCinZ