The Da Vinci effect

The Da Vinci effect

Nicolas Cage doesn't depend on a realtor as much as he does on mysticism, when buying a house

Hollywood superstar Nicolas Cage has spent 865,000 buying a British home he has never viewed – because it stands on a mystical ley line. The five-bedroom house is situated on the slopes of Windmill Hill in Somerset, one of the 'sacred' hills of the Glastonbury area where six ley lines are said to converge.

It is believed one of them, the 'Camelot' ley line, runs directly under the house, linking Glastonbury Tor – supposedly the ancient Isle of Avalon – to Cadbury Fort, said to be the site of Camelot. The property, called Tilham Barn, also enjoys panoramic views of the famous Tor, which legend says is the burial place of King Arthur.

Cage, 42-year-old star of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Lord Of War, is a keen student of New Age ideas. When he visited Glastonbury in February with his Vietnamese wife Alice and their eight-month-old son Kal-El, he spent hundreds of pounds on books on mystical theories.

Interestingly, the new 'King of Camelot' is also starring in a remake of the Seventies horror movie The Wicker Man, about a policeman who investigates a weird pagan cult.