Media interest grew, and Sybil became tired of the attention from news reporters and tourists. Her eccentric habits as a self-described witch soon resulted in problems. She soon moved to Burley herself, into a house behind the shop Lawfords of Burley. She opened three antique shops one in Ringwood, one in Somerset, and one in the New Forest village of Burley. When she was 20, Sybil returned to her family, who had now moved to the edge of the New Forest. She later stayed with an acquaintance in Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, and claimed to have spent some of the following years living amongst the New Forest gypsies. At the age of 16 she married her music teacher, though he died two years later, whereupon Leek returned to live with her grandmother, quitting the Witchcraft research association. In her book The Complete Art of Witchcraft, pg 21, she calls this 800 year family beneficial relationship with 'our ancient Celtic form of Witchcraft' and occultism. She claimed to have been descended from the historical Molly Leigh, who had been accused during the witch hunts. Sybil Leek was born on 22 February 1917 in the village of Normacot in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England to a comfortable, middle-class family.
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