she was contacted by Hans Holzer, a parapsychologist, who invited her to join him investigating hauntings and psychic phenomena. They went on to do numerous TV and radio programmes on the subject. She would later move to Los Angeles, where she met Israel Regardie, an authority on Kabbalah and ritual magic. Views Strong in the defence of her beliefs, Leek sometimes differed and even quarrelled with other witches. She disapproved of nudity in rituals, a requirement in some reconstructed traditions, and was strongly against the use of drugs, but she was at odds with most other witches in that she did believe in cursing. She also claimed to have had an out-of-body experience. Her student Christine Jones stated that Leek "mixed truths with untruths liberally, causing great harm as she went." Death She died of cancer on 26 October 1982 at the Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida. Books {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |+ |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Publisher ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Identifier |- | A Shop in the High Street (1st UK edition) | 1962 | Jarrolds |- | A Shop in the High Street (1st US edition) | 1964 | David McKay Company | |- | Diary of a Witch | 1968 | Prentice Hall | |- | The Sybil Leek Book of Fortune Telling | 1969 | The Macmillan Company | |- | Numerology: The Magic of Numbers | 1969 | Macmillan | |- | How To Be Your Own Astrologer | 1970 | Cowles Book Company | |- | The Sybil Leek's Astrological Guide to Successful Everyday Living | 1970 | Prentice Hall | |- | Telepathy, The 'Respectable Phenomenon''' | 1971 | The Macmillan Company - Book Club edition | |- | The Complete Art of Witchcraft| 1971 | a Signet Book New American Library | |- | The Astrological Guide to Financial Success| 1972 | Grosset & Dunlap | |- | My Life in Astrology| 1972 | Prentice Hall Book club edition | |- | The Story of Faith Healing| 1973 | Macmillan Publishing Company | |- | Sybil Leek's Book of Herbs| 1973 | Cornerstone Library, Simon & Schuster | |- | Tomorrow's Headlines Today| 1974 | Prentice-Hall, Inc. |- | Reincarnation: the Second Chance| 1974 | Stein and Day | |- | Sybil Leek's Book of Curses| 1975 | Prentice-Hall,Inc. Book Club