Title: Jophar Vorin of Laxaria is referenced in The Athenaeum Description: On 5th April 1851, The Athenaeum, a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921, published a piece on the case of […]
Title: The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art Description: In the 1852 edition of The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art the peculiar case of Jophar Vorin is referenced. According to an account […]
Title: Burchard’s strigae, the Witches’ Sabbath, and Shamanistic Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe Description (extract): “Scholars have long recognized that when elite thinkers constructed the core stereotype of the witches’ sabbath (as it emerged, in […]
Title: Reframing voices and visions using a spiritual model. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of anomalous experiences in mediumship Abstract: “Throughout different civilisations and historical epochs, anthropological and religious texts have been replete with accounts of […]
Title: Mediumship and Survival Introduction: “Mediums claim to provide evidence for the survival of bodily death. This evidence is usually in the form of physical effects (such as raps, bangs, or movements of objects) that […]
Title: An Overview of Cold Reading Strategies Description (extract): “Bereavement can be described as a universally experienced set of negative emotional stages following the loss of an object we hold dear. This typically involves the […]
Title: An Overview of Cold Reading Strategies Introduction: “The standard mainstream explanation for impressive mediumistic communications is in terms of deceptive practices called cold reading. For example, in commenting on Gary Schwartz’s book The Afterlife […]
The devil has always been a source of fascination in Judeo-Christian belief. He is seen as an all powerful entity, second only to God. Even Jesus, in the Gospels, refers to him as “prince of […]
Born Gerbert of Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II was a Renaissance man hundreds of years before the time, having been born in 946, and dying in 1003. Gerbert d’Aurillac’s intellectual achievements He was a humanist scholar before […]
In 1589, King James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, was due to marry Princess Anne of Denmark. As the princess sailed to Scotland, fierce storms raged and forced her and her company […]
In the 17th century, the Dutch were obsessed with speed. Their empire expanded across the world, with colonies on most major continents. One of their most lucrative colonies was in Batavia, modern day Jakarta, which had […]
On 29th August 1677, Christoph Haizmann was found on the floor convulsing violently whilst he was working in a small castle in Potterbrun, Austria. The authorities took him in for questioning, initially believing him to […]
One of the most prominent Blues musicians of the early twentieth century was Tommy Johnson. He was part of a musical movement known as the Delta Blues, so called for having originated in the region […]
Title: Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c. Description: Daemonologie is a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy, divination and black magic. Contained within is […]
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