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  • deadlynames

    The book of deadly names

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Sorcerers who mastered the art of summoning powerful djinn walked the lands of Andalusia and North Africa. One such sorcerer left behind a handwritten manuscript containing forbidden secrets of the most terrible and powerful of all the evil djinn. Something about this particular manuscript was...

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  • Herrmannn_the_Great

    Herrmann the Great

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    After touring the rest of South America, Herrmann headed to Russia. His tour led him all the way to Siberia. In St. Petersburg, he received a grand reception. He was invited to a banquet for the Spanish minister, attended by various distinguished members of Russian...

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  • Execution by Drowning

    Execution by Drowning

    Posted on January 7, 2009 | No Comments
    In Europe, drowning was used — more often than hanging, even — as capital punishment, at least for a time. In fact, during the Middle Ages, a sentence of death was read using the words “cum fossa et furca,” or “with drowning-pit and gallows.” Commonly,...

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  • Sator Square

    Sator Square

    Posted on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
    The Sator Square is a word square containing a Latin palindrome featuring the words SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS written in a square so that they may be read top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, and right-to-left. The earliest known appearance of the square was found in the...

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  • Daniel Dunglas Home

    Daniel Dunglas Home

    Posted on November 8, 2008 | No Comments
    Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced ‘Hume’) (March 20, 1833 – June 21, 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at...

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  • John Dee

    John Dee

    Posted on October 21, 2008 | No Comments
    117 John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and...

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