BLACK ARTS APPEAR

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1931, Page 7

BLACK ARTS APPEAR

DEVIL WOItSHIP IX LONDON. SWIFT SPREAD OF CULT. Air Harry Price, founder and director of tlie National Laboratory for Psychical Research in England, lias stated that there are hundreds of "'ell-educated and well-to-do men and women in all parts of London who are constantly practising the worship °! the Devil, states the London “Alorn. ing Post.” Air Price spoke from close personal experience of the practices which he described, and among a number of other striking allegations he asserted that:— Black magic, sorcery and witchcraft are practised in the London of to-day on a scale and with a freedom undreamed of in the Middle Ages. Professors and leaders of the cults, for the most part foreigners, make use ol the same formulae and incantations as the mediaeval necromancers. The cults are increasing and attracting interest at such a pace that they will soon assume such dimensions as to become a genuine menace to the morals and sanity of the nation. Alchemy, astrology, and other lesser forms of magic are providing wit], a good living numbers of men and women who prey on the credulity of their clients; and finally, Celebrants of the Black ATass and Devil-worship practise entirely without risk of consequence, because there is no existing law under which proceedings can bo taken. RINGLEADERS ATHENS. Mr Price stated that bis assertionswere* based on frequent encounters with men and women who had at one time been initiated into the cults. The rinp-b'nders, he said, are usuallIndians, Egyptians, or Latins and seldom, if ever, of Teutonic extraction. ff is their practice to crather round them a ronsicL-mblc fol'owinf. members of which allow their flats and houses to be used in rotation for the celebration of tin. Black ATass The room chosen for the occasion * s d-corn ted in mystic colours, and tb" ATass is celebrated in the tradition-1 manner, evil spirits being summoned, and the Devil tak'ir r Ids place as the prim-ine] obmet of devotion. “Interest in the oeeuTl.” continued Mr Price, “is spreading by leaps and bounds, and I can safely say that there are more devotees of the BlackArts in London fo-dnv than ever there were in the Aliddlo Ag n s. T'hev ti-v by the forms of black magic to order events and to make thmgs coin' 1 to nass—they try to raise the dead or injure peoph* who are at a distance; they even make use of wax dummies and the instruments of the mediaeval, wizard.

CRYSTAL GAZING. “Black Magic is not the only form of witchcraft that is actively practised all over To”<lnn. P-o/.ens of iroi and women who have visited crystal-gazers room to p’V> o yerv week—men and women who have |»rrli :) r>s snOnt a guinea <)'• t'-o iMijneni: for Em honest of interviewing wonmn who create an :<+- mn«!)>'rro hv dressing in nocrlifie<\ t'h'el.-iny tho ; r eyes, and purchasing a lilaek cat. I could name such persons iii KVn« : n ~rt on ""d in th n Rond .iron, f-'ojo,, of C’mn have Emir on o’ in a t es’ Or lm'f-honr appointments hooked for months ahe n d. “In addition to this, them ar<' astrological societies in England ahm n w'oln in T no 'lon there is a” ‘nlc'-omm' ’ ■who is seriously occupying himself with the transmutation of metaK Mon and women genuinely believe m all this.”