The Enfield Poltergeist and the Voice of Bill Wilkins
Knocks moved through the walls, furniture crossed the floor and a dead man's voice emerged from a child in the…
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Month: July 2026
Anneliese Michel and the Last Exorcisms of Klingenberg
Between 1975 and 1976, Anneliese Michel endured 67 rites of exorcism in Klingenberg, leaving recordings, testimony and a tragedy that…
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The Loudun Possessions and the Devils in the Convent
In 1630s France, a convent erupted in visions, convulsions and demonic names—drawing priests, magistrates and thousands into the Loudun possessions.
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The Arbatel and the Seven Olympic Spirits
Printed in Basel in 1575, the Arbatel speaks in forty-nine aphorisms of divine vocation, wisdom and seven planetary rulers called…
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Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Catalogue of Hell
Johann Weyer opposed the execution of accused witches, yet printed one of Europe’s most influential catalogues of demons—sixty-nine infernal offices…
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Inside Add MS 36674, England’s Archive of Forbidden Magic
One British Library volume binds together Solomon, Agrippa, Simon Forman, John Dee, magical experiments and papers from English witchcraft accusations.
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Noli Me Tangere and the Black Magic of the Gallows
Painted demons, treasure spirits, corpse magic and forbidden sigils fill an eighteenth-century Austrian manuscript now preserved as Wellcome MS 1766.
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The Liber Razielis and the Angelic Book of Secrets
Attributed to the angel Raziel and transmitted through Hebrew, Latin and vernacular traditions, the Book of Secrets united astrology, divine…
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The Livre des Esperitz Before the Ars Goetia
A short French manuscript in Cambridge names forty-six spirits, their ranks, forms, powers and legions—an early catalogue standing behind later…
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The Hygromanteia and the Lost Roots of Solomonic Magic
Before the Key of Solomon took its familiar European forms, Byzantine manuscripts preserved a shifting magical book of planets, spirits,…
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