The Blood on Satan's Claws - Piers Haggard (1971)

Magic Detectives, Occult Detectives

Magician Detectives
The Murder of the Marionette (Diamondstone)
The Pulp Super-Fan | Diamondstone: Magician-Sleuth

The Twisted Bullet

Blackstone, the Magic Detective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Occult Detectives

Semi-Dual
The House of Invisible Bondage by J.U. Giesy
c/f Occult Detectives, pt. 20 – Semi Dual

Simon Iff
Simon Iff Stories

The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts by Dickey and Goddard
The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain by Lytton

Strange Detective
Clue Of Courage
The Devil's Crypt

Magic Detectives

The Phantom Magician in the Adventures of Patsy
Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Adventures of Patsy
Adventures of Patsy
Hero Goggles - All things comics and maybe a little more!: Understanding Comics and the Phantom Magician
A Sample Comic.

Mandrake
Mandrake the Magician by Fred Fredericks -- Created by Lee Falk - About | Comics | Comics Kingdom - 
Mandrake The Magician
Comic Strips, Editorial Cartoons, Sunday Funnies, Jokes

Dr. Mystic - Public Domain Super Heroes

General
Main/Magician Detective - Television Tropes & Idioms

Magic (1978)

The Serpent Power by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) (1918)

Source. Sir John George Woodroffe (1865–1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose work helped to unleash in the West a deep and wide interest in Hindu philosophy and Yogic practices. Some context (Wikipedia).

Black Magic in Science by H. P. Blavatsky (1910)

Source.

From Studies in Occultism.

Voodoo Planet by Andrew North (1959)

Source. Because every pop culture meme deserves its own planet.

Haldane of the Secret Service - Houdini (1922)

Produced by, directed by and starring Houdini, a film featuring the stage magician as a crime-fighting, detective magician, attempting to track down the vicious criminal gang responsible for his government agent father's death while also saving the girl he loves.

The Monster (1903)

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Houdini

Source.

A COMPLETE EXPOSE' OF THE MODUS
OPERANDI OF FIRE EATERS, HEAT
RESISTERS, POISON EATERS, VENOMOUS
REPTILE DEFIERS, SWORD SWALLOWERS,
HUMAN OSTRICHES, STRONG MEN, ETC.

BY

HOUDINI

AUTHOR OF "THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT HOUDIN," ETC.

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO MY LIFE'S HELPMATE,
WHO STARVED AND STARRED WITH ME
DURING THE YEARS WE SPENT
AMONG "MIRACLE MONGERS"
My Wife

c/f - The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin

Phenomena of Materialisation by Baron von Schrenck-Notzing (1923)

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"English translation of Phenomena of Materialisation, a book by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing which focuses on a series of séances witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career afresh after a series of seances she held in 1905 were exposed as a fraud. Her psychic performances as Eva C gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series, who believed she was genuine, and also Harry Houdini, who was not so convinced. Another researcher who became interested in her case was Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. A series of tests he devised between the years 1909 and 1913 convinced him that Eva C was the real deal and in 1913 he published his Phenomena of Materialisation detailing the sessions and the reasons for his belief.

It has been noted that these sessions with Schrenck-Notzing verged on the pornographic. Carrière’s assistant (and reported lover) Juliette Bisson would, during the course of the séance sittings with Schrenck-Notzing, introduce her finger into Carrière’s vagina to ensure no “ectoplasm” had been put there beforehand. this would be followed by Carrière stripping nude at the end and demanding another full-on gynaecological exam. Whether the audience members were obliging is up for debate, but reports that Carrière would run around the séance room naked indulging in sexual activities with her audience suggests perhaps so. One can imagine that this deliberate eroticisation of the male audience might go some way to explaining the ease with which these “investigators” believed the psychic reality of the seances. A decision of fraud on their part would distance their involvement somewhat from the special and heightened context of the séances and so cast their complicity in, or at the least witnessing of, sexual activities in the sober (and more judgemental) cold light of day.

The spiritualist debunker Harry Price wrote that the photographs taken by Schrenk-Notzing, rather than proving the reality of Carrière’s mediumship, in fact did just the opposite. In 1920 Carrière was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in London and an analysis of her ectoplasm revealed it to be made of chewed paper and the ghostly faces as cut from the French magazine Le Miroir. Back issues of the magazine matched some of Carrière’s ectoplasm faces, including Woodrow Wilson, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the French president Raymond Poincaré. This is something Schrenk-Notzing tries to address in his book, but with not much success. A 1913 newspaper article explained how “Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A clean-shaven face was decorated with a beard. Grey hairs became black curls, a broad forehead was made into a narrow one. But, in spite of all her endeavours, she could not obliterate certain characteristic lines.”

Visit our post – “Photographs from a séance with Eva Carrière” – in the Images section of the site to see a selection of the photographs featured in the book."

How to Be a Witch

• Meet the Witches, Lesbian Separatists, and Other Brave Feminists Who Shook Up the '60s and '70s | Mother Jones

Monster Parade Magazine, 1958. Source.

c/f ‘The Power Of The Witch’ - super rare British witchcraft documentary from 1971

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1971

• The Modern Day Witches of Poland
• Watch the William S. Burroughs-narrated ‘Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
• ‘Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages’: Incredible vintage movie photos up for auction
• The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of Modern English Pagans (Fall 1964)
• Satanic Sex Magazines of the 60's and 70's
• Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man In the World  Documentary
• Cocktail Pagans from the Pages of Revels (1959) and Pagan (1966)

The Malleus Maleficarum

Source.

"The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for 'The Hammer of Witches,' or 'Hexenhammer' in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches."

c/f The Dicoverie of Witchcraft - Scot, Reginald (1584)

Grimoires

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The name "Grimoire" is derived from the word "Grammar". A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A Grimoire is, appropriately enough, a description of a set of magickal symbols and how to combine them properly. Most of the texts linked below are descriptions of traditional European ritual magick, which is based on Judeo-Christianity. Even though this must not be confused with neo-Paganism, many of the neo-Pagan traditions use similar rituals and techniques, albeit with a different (usually Celtic) vocabulary. 

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage Translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1900]. This grimoire is a primary source for modern ceremonial magic.

The Magus By Francis Barrett [1801].

One of the rarest and most reputable treatments of ceremonial magic. Discusses topics such as alchemy, astrology, and the Kabbalah.

The Book of Ceremonial Magic

By Arthur Edward Waite [1913].

Comprehensive descriptions of rituals from classic grimoires, including extensive illustrations of magical seals. Grimoires covered include the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon, the Grimorium Verum, and the Black Pullet. Also known as the Book of Black Magic.

Sixth Book of Moses

Seventh Book of Moses

Two very mysterious grimoires. These two grimoires (originating from the same book) are often cited as being used by Vodun/Obeah practitioners. Although they claim to be Kabbalistic in nature, there is very little if any actual Kabbalah to be found in them. Rather this appears to be a traditional ritual magick system with incantations to summon and dismiss spirits to achieve worldly ends. Published in 1849, and translated into English in 1880, the 6th and 7th Books of Moses claim to include material from 1338, 1383 and 1501, including portions reputedly translated from the "Cuthan-Samaritan" language, which has been extinct since the 12th Century A.D., and about which very little is known. The most interesting aspects of this book are the unique illustrations of magickal seals, with letters in Hebrew and an unknown script; and the lists of names of demonic entities. Note: the images in this grimoire were originally printed in the 19th Century using very primitive printing technology. To prepare them for publication on the Internet, they were scanned from the best source available and then image-processed to bring out details. Unfortunately some of these plates have illegible portions. Note: the first five books of Moses are the traditionally the first five books of the Bible.

The Key of Solomon The King.

translated by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers [1888]

The key to modern ceremonial magic. Although the author of this grimoire was traditionally the biblical King Solomon, it was probably written in the 13th Century A.D. It was translated by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers in 1888; Mathers subsequently had a lot of influence in the Golden Dawn movement, one of the sources of modern ritual magic; it is said that he co-wrote its rituals with W.B. Yeats. Mathers also translated the Kabbalah.

The Lesser Key of Solomon by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley [1904].

The companion Grimoire to the Greater Key of Solomon, (for which, see above). It focuses on the characteristics of the various demons, and the summoning rituals.

Pow-wows; or Long Lost Friend by George Hohman [1820].

A grimoire in the "Pow-wow" tradition of the Pennsylvania Dutch. In spite of the name, Pow-wow is not a Native American tradition, but a rural European healing and hexing system which was imported into America in the 18th and 19th Century by German immigrants. After nearly dying out it has experienced a small revival in recent years.

Witch Photography Round Up

Source.

Letters on Natural Magic - David Brewster (1781-1868)

In full.

Killer Delinquents

Sources and General Interest Links

Tru TV - Notorious Young Killers

Kids Who Kill, Part one
Kids Who Kill, Part two

Teen Violence Timeline (Canada) (2006)

2012
June
Canada News: Travis Baumgartner: Armoured car guard makes Edmonton court appearance

2011
May
Boy accused of killing his neo-Nazi father may use insanity defense
Denair teen accused of killing dad pleads not guilty

November
Teenage girl, 14, questioned on suspicion of murdering her mother | Mail Online

2010

Source: Darwination Scans.

January

The Bizarre Case of Duane Hurley and Daniel Kovarbasich

June

Forbidden Love: Steven Colver and Tylar Witt

March
Teens Indicted After Allegedly Taunting Girl Who Hanged Herself

2009
June
B.C. teen accused of killing banned from social networking
Alyssa Bustamante and the Murder of Elizabeth Olten

September

Annie Le: A Yale lab Murder

November
Bully, 13, who chased girl to death
Police: Girl, 15, dug grave anticipating killing
Teenager guilty of pensioner's 'vampire ritual' killing

2007
Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher

2003
Teen Killer Couples

2001

The Dartmouth Murders

The Bizarre Murder of Robert Schwartz 

Clara Schwartz

2000

The Gallaudet Murders

1995

Jeffrey Howorth
Bryan and David Freeman 

Diane Zamora & David Graham

1993
The West Memphis 3

James Bulger

1991

The Murder of Laurie Show

1992
Amy Fisher 

Shanda Sharer 

1989

The Menendez Brothers

1986

The Murder of Anita Cobby

1984

Joe Hunt 

1979

Bruce George Peter Lee

1978
Willie Bosket

1968

Mary Bell

1965

Sylvia Likens

1944

Child Killing

1924

Leopold and Loeb

Stalker (1979)

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Transcript (in English).

c/f Andrei Tarkovsky’s Very First Films: Three Student Films, 1956-1960 | Open Culture
c/f Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online | Open Culture

Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo

This includes both primary and secondary songs. Source.

(field transcription, uncredited) Cotton-Eyed Joe (hoodoo) pre-1925 Arnold, (James) Kokomo Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues) (black cat, jinx) 1935 Arnold, (James) Kokomo  Policy Wheel Blues (Jinx Blues) (policy dream books) 1935 Batts, Will Country Woman Blues (goofer dust) 1933 Black Spider Dumpling  Blake, Blind (Arthur) Policy Blues (policy dream books) Blake, Blind (Arthur) Panther Squall Blues (jinx) 1928 Bogan, Lucille (with Spoken parts by Papa Charlie Jackson)  Jim Tampa Blues (jomo, black cat bone) 1927 Brown, Bessie Hoodoo Blues (goofer, gris-gris, spider dumpling, black cat bone, shoes) 1924 Brown, Gabriel Jinx Is On Me (jinx, gypsy, card reading, numbers) 1945 Carter, Bo (Armentier Chatmon) The Ins and Outs of My Girl (jinx) 1936 Carter, Big Lucky (Levester Carter) Goofer Dust (goofer dust, dragon's blood, etc.) 1968 Chatmon, Harry Hoo Doo Blues (hoodoo, palmistry, horseshoe) 1935 Chicago String Band Hoodoo Blues (hoodoo, gambling) Clayton, Dr. (Peter) Root Doctor Blues (double entendre on root work) 1946 Cox, Ida Fogyism (black cat, etc.) 1928 Gypsy Glass Blues (Gypsy) 1927 Mojo Hand Blues (mojo) 1927 Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" Hoodoo Lady (hoodoo lady, hoodoo hand) 1947 Dixon, Willie I Ain't Superstitious (bad luck omen list) 1962 Gibson, Clifford  Don't Put That Thing On Me (conjure, hoodooing male nature) 1929 Gillum, Jazz  The Blues What Am (bad luck omen list) 1947 Hand Reader Blues (fortune teller, herb tea, good luck pills) 1947 Harlem Hamfats Hoodooin' Woman (hoodoo, fix, spread stuff) 1937 Harris, Wynonie Conjured (foot-track magic, graveyard dirt, etc.) 1964 Henry, Waymon "Sloppy"  Jomo Man Blues (jomo, lodestone, john the conquer, goofer dust) 1928 Hogg, Andrew "Smokey" I Bleed Through My Soul (black cat bone) c.1950 Hopkins, Lightning Mojo Hand (mojo) 1960; also a later version, undated House, Son The Jinx Blues [No. 1 and No. 2] (jinx, Gypsy) 1942 Hudson, Hattie Doggone My Good Luck Soul (black cat, horseshoe, rabbit foot) 1927 Hunter, Ivory Joe I Almost Lost My Mind (Gypsy) 1950 Jackson, Papa Charlie  Bad Luck Woman Blues (jinx, rat's [?] foot) 1924 Jefferson, Blind Lemon  Bad Luck Blues 1926 Broke and Hungry Blues (black cat bone) 19-- (INCOMPLETE) Dry Southern Blues (implied menstrual blood in coffee) 1926 Low Down Mojo Blues (mojo) Lemon Rambler Blues (jinx) 1927 Johnson, Merline Sold It to the Devil (crossroads ritual) 1937 Johnson, Robert Little Queen of Spades (mojo) 1937 Johnson, Robert Hellhound on My Trail (Hot Foot Powder) Stones In My Passway (foot-track magic) 1938 Jones, Curtis Black Gipsy Blues (Black Gypsy) 1938 Black Magic Blues (hoodoo) Jordan, Charley (with Charlie Manson) I Couldn't Stay Here (jinx) 1936 Jordan, Louis Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man (hoodoo) 1939 Lenoir, J. B. The Mojo, a.k.a. Mojo Boogie, Voodoo Boogie (jack ball) 1953, etc.

Lewis, Furry Black Gypsy Blues (Black Gypsy) 1929 Lightnin' Slim (Otis Hicks) Hoo Doo Blues (hoodoo) Lincoln, Charlie (Charlie Hicks, Laughing Charley) Mojoe Blues (mojo, hoodoo) 1957 Lofton, Cripple Clarence I Don't Know (goofer dust) 1939 Lofton, Cripple Clarence Strut That Thing (goofer dust) 1935 Lonesome Sundown (Cornelius Green) I'm a Mojo Man (mojo) 1957 Mabon, Willie I Don't Know (goofer dust) 1952 / 1953 Memphis Jug Band (with Will Shade) Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues (Aunt Caroline Dye, mojo) 1930 Memphis Jug Band (with Will Shade)I Whipped My Woman With A Singletree (Black Gypsy) 1930 Memphis Jug Band (with Hattie Hart) Spider's Nest Blues (spider, toby) 1930 Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas) Hoodoo Lady (hoodoo woman) 1936 Moss, Buddy Jinks Man Blues (jinx) Nelson, Romeo Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing (goofer dust) 1929 Otis, Johnny Castin' My Spell (mentions many hoodoo beliefs) 1950s Patton, Charlie Revenue Man Blues (jinx) 1934 Rainey, Ma Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues (bad luck beliefs) 1927 Rainey, Ma Black Dust Blues (goofer dust) 1928 Rainey, Ma Louisiana Hoo Doo Blues (Algiers, hand, hoodoo, goofer) 1925 Red, Tampa (Hudson Whittaker) and Georgia Tom Dorsey The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas (hoodoo women) 1929 Ross, Dolly Hootin' Owl Blues (bad luck beliefs) 1927 Shade, Will (Memphis Jug Band) I Whipped My Woman with a Singletree (gypsy) 1929 Shines, Johnny Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues (hoodoo doctor) 1970 Smith, Bessie Lady Luck Blues (horseshoe, goofer dust) 1923 Smith, Elizabeth Gwine To Have Bad Luck Seven Years (bad luck women list) Spand, Charlie Big Fat Mama Blues (goofer dust) 1930 Evil Woman Spell (hoodoo woman) 1931 Hoodoo Woman Blues (hoodoo woman) 1940 Spivey, Victoria Hoodoo Man Blues (hoodoo man) 1926 Stokes, Frank Bedtime Blues (Goofer Dust) 1928 Tampa Red (Hudson Woodbridge / Hudson Whittaker) Anna Lou Blues (mojo hand) Temple, Johnnie Hoodoo Women (Aunt Caroline Dye, hoodoo) 1937 Torey, George Lonesome Man Blues (jinx) 1937 Towel, Jim I've Been Hoodooed (hoodoo, rabbit foot, foot track) 1928 Twitty, John D. (Black Spider Dumpling) Sold It to the Devil (crossroads ritual) 1937 Washboard Sam Hand Reader Blues (fortune teller, herb tea, good luck pills) 1938 Washboard Sam Suspicious Blues (many bad-luck beliefs) 1938 Waters, Muddy (McKinley Morganfield) Louisiana Blues (mojo) 1950 Weldon, Casey Bill (Casey Will Weldon) Jinx Blues (jinx) Wells, Junior Hoodoo Man Blues (reworking of SBW's "Hoodoo Hoodoo") 1953 & 1965 Wheatstraw, Peetie Last Week Blues (jinx) 1934 Wheatstraw, Peetie Cut Out Blues (policy, jinx) 1936 (INCOMPLETE) Wiley, Arnold Spider in Your Dumpling (spider dumpling, live things) 1920s Williams, Albert Hoodoo Man (Memphis Al) (hoodoo man) 1963 Williams, Big Joe Jinx Blues (jinx) 1963 Williams, Robert Pete Black Cat Bone (black cat bone) 1961 Wiliamson, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Hoodoo Hoodoo (hoodoo, mojo) 1946

Goethe's The Sorcerer's Apprentice in English and German

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Sources for Shakespeare

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Below is an incomplete library of literary borrowings available online which informed the dramatist-poet's plays.

Adding more clutter to the commentaries on Shakespeare is much like writing an ode to the Gideon Bible then placing it in a motel drawer. I`ll avoid it.

Medieval Morality Plays
Everyman

Plutrach
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes (1579) - The edition actually used by Shakespeare.
Plutrach's Lives as translated by John Dryden. Slightly more readable and modern edition.


Saxo Grammaticus
The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned").

Hector Boethius
Hector Boethius, Scotorum Historia (1575 version).

Reginald Scot
Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft


King James I
Daemonologie 1599 by King James I

Seneca
Seneca's Tragedies in English
Original texts of Seneca's works at 'The Latin Library'
Works by Seneca the Younger at Project Gutenberg
Essays by Seneca at Quotidiana.org
Seneca's essays in English (at Stoics.com)
Many quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca via brainyquote.com.
List of commentaries of Seneca's Letters
Incunabula (1478) of Seneca's works in the McCune Collection
Seneca on Anger: written and presented by Alain de Botton
SORGLL: Seneca, Thyestes 766-804, read by Katharina Volk, Columbia University. Society for the Oral reading of Greek and Latin Literature (SORGLL)

Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus' A Geograczphical History of Africa

Ovid
The Fifteen Books of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1567- Arthur Golding

Tacitus
The Annals by Tacitus

c/f Take a Virtual Tour of the Dictionary Shakespeare May Have Owned and Annotated