ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the importance of mobility in magickal practice. It is to form a discourse around enchantment, magick and place that acknowledges the role of movement as inseparable from the performance of the sacred in nature-based worship and practice. The chapter provides a descriptive auto-ethnographic account of the ritual that took place on Halloween 2011, showing how the application of mobility to the magickal practices conducted at the Ankerwycke Yew act to both augment a sense of its sacrality and engender a process of place-making. Magick deals not so much with sleight of hand, but with a commanding of the unseen forces of the world. Neo-pagans see the vitality of nature as a source of enchantment, a view that can be extended beyond mysticism through a framework of mobility; a close rendering of the affective nature of magickal movement. Samhain is the name given to the celebration of Halloween or the beginning of the Pagan New Year.
