Amongst John Aubrey's unpublished works, which comprised everything except a text on the supernatural, was 'A Collection of Approved Receipts'. A list of medical cures.

The Salisbury 'Impostures' of Dr Heydock & Walter Raleigh. John Aubrey loved stories. His most famous work, Brief Lives, is replete with gossipy biographical portraits. This fascination for personal flaws, scandal and a good story spilt over into his Natural History of Wiltshire, not least in his notes on Dr Richard Heydock of Salisbury.

John Aubrey believed in magic. The 17th-century Wiltshire antiquary noted down folk remedies and practical magical techniques used by cunning folk (the practitioners of white magic which communities turned to for help).