The knowledge that its londons oldest bookshop makes it all the more delicious. A staple amongst the wicca folk, the atlantis occult bookshop has been around for almost 100 years and has been run by three generations of witches. The atlantis bookshop is an esoteric bookshop in museum street, london. Atlantis the oldest occult bookshop in london founded in 1922, atlantis is an essential destination if you want to read up on wiccanism, neopaganism or modern witchcraft.
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