The Cipher Manuscripts and the Birth of the Golden Dawn
Sixty encoded folios supplied the grade outlines and ritual skeleton from which Westcott, Mathers and Woodman constructed the Hermetic Order…
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Month: July 2026
The Lesser Key of Solomon and the Making of the Ars Goetia
The Lesser Key is a seventeenth-century manuscript compilation whose first book, the Ars Goetia, reorganized older demon catalogues into seventy-two…
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The Black Pullet and the Talismans of Revolutionary Egypt
La Poule Noire hides a manual of twenty-two talismans inside the story of a French soldier initiated beneath the pyramids…
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The Earling Exorcism and the Demons of Emma Schmidt
In 1928, Father Theophilus Riesinger entered an Iowa convent to conduct three prolonged exorcism sessions over the woman remembered as…
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The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism Behind The Exorcist
A Jesuit diary records weeks of prayers, restraints, wounds and apparent responses to sacred objects during the 1949 exorcism that…
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The Drummer of Tedworth and the Curse That Beat at Night
After John Mompesson confiscated a wandering drummer’s instrument, nocturnal beating, scratching and violent movement invaded his Wiltshire home.
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Willington Mill and the Footsteps Above the Empty Room
At an isolated Northumberland mill house, the Procter family recorded footsteps, falling bodies, shaking beds and figures appearing where no…
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The Watseka Wonder and the Spirit of Mary Roff
In 1878, Lurancy Vennum reportedly set aside her own identity and entered the Roff household speaking and remembering as their…
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Esther Cox and the Fires of the Great Amherst Mystery
In a crowded Nova Scotia house, thunderous blows, moving objects, written threats and sudden fires gathered around a young woman…
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George Lukins and the Seven Devils of Yatton
For years George Lukins was said to bark, sing in altered voices and answer as seven spirits before clergy confronted…
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