title: The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of Modern Witch Hunt
author:  Richard Webster 
description: Early in the morning of 15 March 1992, 40 police officers took up positions in streets in and around Wrexham in North Wales. As dawn broke they swooped down on their suspects and arrested sixteen men and one woman. All but one had worked at Bryn Estyn, a care home for adolescent boys on the outskirts of Wrexham. According to reports which began to appear in the press in 1991, Bryn Estyn had lain at the centre of a network of evil conspiracy which supposedly involved the extensive homosexual abuse of adolescent boys by a paedophile ring, whose members terrorised their victims and subjected them to a regime of violence and brutality.
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  ## Prologue
  
  
  Estcarp the last-held land of the Old Ones in the latter days, was ruled by
  the Witch Women with the Power that had once been the heritage of all those
  from whom they had sprung. The land had been caught between two enemies— the
  new peoples—those of Alizon in the north, and Karsten in the south. To the
  east lay the mysterious land which, by the Power, was closed to the people of
  Estcarp, as protection against ancient evil. Then, from the sea in the south,
  came the Kolder who were rapers of men's minds, who used strange machines to
  create armies of living dead. Determined to rule the world, they had come
  through one of the Gates. They hated the Witches mightily, for their minds
  could not be overborne by the Kolder machines.
  
  
  They captured Gorm and the city of the Sulcar sea people who had been long
  allied with Estcarp. In Karsten they made Duke Yvian one of their mind-dead.
  So they moved upon Estcarp as though it were a nut to crack between two
  stones.
  
  