in 1974, a writer began sending articles to pagan newsletter "the wiccan", then edited by the gardnerian wiccan john score, articulating an alternative account of pickingill's life and relation to the british occult movement. first identifying himself only as "a well wisher", he later began using the pseudonym lugh, named for the irish mythological figure. in 1977, lugh ceased sending the articles to "the wiccan" and instead began publishing them in a rival british magazine, "the cauldron", edited by michael howard; he claimed to have switched outlets because "the wiccan" had been too dominated by gardnerian perspectives. lugh later revealed his name to be e.w. "bill" liddell, describing himself as an englishman born in essex. he added that "circa" 1960 he had moved to auckland, new zealand, before later relocating to australia, from where he wrote his articles. in a 1984 letter he noted that he was not born with the surname of liddell but had instead adopted it later in life. claiming that pickingill had been the first-cousin of his paternal great-great grandfather, liddell asserted that he had been initiated into his family's hereditary form of witchcraft in 1950, and that he had subsequently been initiated into both the gardnerian and alexandrian traditions of wicca. his partner, sylvia tatham, had been heavily involved in the development of the alexandrian tradition in the early 1960s, having been one of those present when its founder, alex sanders, was initiated into the gardnerian tradition. in 1982, wiccan publications collected together and published these articles as two pamphlets: "old george pickingill and the roots of modern witchcraft" and "medieval witchcraft and the freemasons". the articles were republished in one single volume in 1994 as "the pickingill papers", edited by liddell and howard.