The Satanic Oath
1. A spoken denial of the Christian faith. 2. Re-baptism in the Devil's name, the novice given a new name to replace the Christian one. 3. Symbolic removal of the baptismal chrism consecrated oil mixed with balm by the Devil's touch. 4. Denial of godparents and gaining new sponsors. 5. As a token of submission, obedience, novice makes a gift of clothing to the devil. 6. While standing in a magic circle the novice pledges an Oath of Allegiance to the Devil. 7. Initiate's name is included in the...
Protection Of Ones House And Hearth
Beneath my guardianship I am safe against all tempests and all enemies, J. J. J. These three I's signify Jesus three times. This must be written on paper and the cattle made to swallow it in their feed. A Good Remedy Against Slander If you are calumniated or slandered to your very skin, to your very flesh, to your very bones, cast it back upon the false tongues. Take off your shirt, and turn it wrong side out, and then run your thumbs along your body, close under the ribs, starting at the pit...
African Witchcraft
Animism, totemism and fetishism are integral parts of African Witchcraft. Initiates into Witchcraft in the Toma tribes undergo years of study, are taken away from then parents at birth, and when ready must submit to the torture of having a hundred fifty cuts on their bodies, without anesthesia or sterilization, forming a definite design, which markings make them full-fledged witchdoctors if they survive the ordeal Gri gris, dolls, fetishes, herbs, animal skins, claws and teeth, herbs, poison...
Ramu The Wolf Boy Dead At
Lucknow, India, April 20 Reuters Ramu the Wolf Boy thought to have been raised by wild beasts in the jungle until he was 10 died today, 14 years after being found naked on the floor of the waiting room at a railroad station here. Ramu, who had been kept at the hospital here and had made little progress since being found, suffered for the last year from a chronic respiratory infection and epileptic fits. He would lie on his bed all day and the only human emotion he showed was to smile at his...
Wyn Sargent
Mrs. Wyn Sargent, writer and world traveller from Huntington Beach, California, spent last summer in Asia, part of the time exploring the jungles of Kalimantan also called Borneo a part of Indonesia . With her was her son, Jmy pronounced Jimmy , 12, a 7th grader at Harbour View School In Huntington Beach. This is Mrs. Sargent's firsthand report on their adventures among the head-hunters of Kalimantan Borneo written exclusively for JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC. Would you believe my 12-year old son and I...
Introduction
Witchcraft has never been dead just dormant. Its space-age awakening is demonstrated in the daily press. Besides the University of South Carolina teaching a Witchcraft course, it is also taught at the Centennial College, Toronto, Canada. The Free University of Toronto is also giving a course on Magic and the Black Arts. By the time this is published Centennial will be giving an Advanced Course In The Occult. Famous folk singer Donovan has written and recorded the song Season Of The Witch....
Elijah Hadynn
I was warmly greeted by Elijah Hadynn, at his apartment on East 10th Street, in New York's East Village, when I visited him on the rainy night of April 18, 1969. The interview was arranged by John R. Nichols, editor of STRANGE UNKNOWN MAGAZINE, and a writer on witchcraft himself. He had previously interviewed and written about Mr. Hadynn. I was ushered into a living room which had cushions and pillows arranged alongside the four walls, on the floor, Moroccan style, like my villa in Tangier I...
Obeah And Voodoo
Voodoo, from vodun or vodoun comes from the West African word vodu which in Togo and in Dahomey means spirits or gods. It is the popular religion of Haiti's peoples a mixture of Catholic saints and native loa. It is also known throughout the West Indies and in South America by the names of macumba and candomble. Obeah is the West African ancestor of modern voodoo. It comes from the name Obi, the snake-God, a word also meaning the Spirit Of Evil. African slaves imported to the island of Santo...
The Castrators
Sex in all its aspects and variations has played a strong part in witchcraft, sorcery, black magic and divination. In the 23rd chapter of 2 Kings Josiah Broke down the houses of the cult prostitutes These were male prostitutes who lived in the temple groves. Sacred and religious sodomy can be found in most Eastern religions, and in Egypt, Assyria, and many of the Arab countries, eunuchs were made expressly for this purpose. A recent newspaper story told about India's eunuchs banding together...
To Compel A Thief To Return Stolen Goods
Walk out early in the morning before sunrise to a juniper tree, and bend it with the left hand toward the rising sun, while you are saying Juniper tree, I shall bend and squeeze thee, until the thief has returned. Another popular long lasting book in the same vein, from which most such books are either based upon or copied, is Albertus Magnus, Being the Approved, Verified, Sympathetic and Natural EGYPTIAN SECRETS or WHITE AND BLACK ART FOR MAN AND BEAST, Revealing the Forbidden Knowledge and...
For A Twitch An Itch Seek A Witch
LISBON AP Wherever everything has failed to solve a love affair or cure a sickness in Portugal, the best bet is to go see the witch. The witch lives in every town of Portugal. Sometimes she operates a flashy office in the heart of Lisbon. Other times she sets up a makeshift altar crowded with canes, crutches, statues and candles in her tiny country shack. But whatever the formula, thousands flock to see the wise woman who prescribes everything from simple gymnastics to a yellow spider dipped in...
Christmas Pagan Holiday
During every Christmas week the airwaves are full of priests, ministers and announcers declaring Christmas, December 25th, is the day Jesus Christ was born. This indicates that they either don't know their own history or that they are deliberately falsifying the truth. There is absolutely no record in existence about the birth of Jesus Christ, neither in the Bible nor in other ancient texts. When some say December 25th is the day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ they're telling the...