About Us

The annual Stratford Halloween Festival was started in 2005 by the Creaky Cauldron in Henley Street and has been getting bigger and better every year. The Creaky Cauldron is, of course, the Stratford home to the Seek The Magic Organisation, a business dedicated to helping you to seek the magic within and without under your own terms and at your own pace.

Founded before the turn of the century as the Real Magic Spell Company, Seek the Magic is recognised the world over as being the leading and most traditional manufacturer of magical wares. We make everything the old fashioned way ~ by hand, and our attention to detail is legendary. We know exactly what goes into every spell as we pack every box and bag ourselves.

Everything we make reflects our love for where we live, our faith in the world and our hope for the future as well as drawing upon the heritage of our past ~ in fact some of our herbal recipes are over 350 years old and some of the incense blends date back over 2000 years! Our labels are your assurance that, in an increasingly disaffected and impersonal world, our boxes and bags are filled with only good things.

"We are all capable of great things. What holds us back is fear, not ability. Living consciously means thinking about our actions, our words, our ideas and our feelings. We can all be in touch with the greater unity, with the cosmic consciousness, with magic. The reality of magic allows us to connect with the essential elements of life. It opens our hearts to the joy of love."

Seek The Magic is the world's oldest and largest makers of magic and has been celebrating Halloween in Stratford longer than any other organisation (no matter what they might claim!). So if you want a genuinely scary experience, you no where to come - the Creaky Cauldron in Henley Street!