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AM GM.

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TaumatiDop. 6.44

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943 10.39) 13,35| 1.81

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10.47

4,38) 5,48) 7.58 4.50 6.00) 8.03 5.04 6.18 8.17

5.08 6.17 8.29 5.18 6.97 6,38

6.38 8.82 8.07 3.19 3.40 6.89 6.58 8.45

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2.40 8.20 11.01 19.08

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| 8,035,04 0,12

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BLACK MAGIC" IN

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LATEST CRAZE OF BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS.

YOUNG OXFORD TRIES SOME NECROMANCY.

Blaqk Magic and other sorceries are doing practised in London, ac cording to Me Harry Price, foun der and director of the National Laboratory for Psychical Research, which has hadquarters in Bouth Kensington, 8.3.

Mr. Price discussed the subject witho an Erening Standard re presentativo?" He said, that soNIG followers of the cult were society women and young university stud enta Crystal gazing, he said, was common in London. Mr. Price instanced a house within a mile of his promises where & woman cry- atal-gazer has made so much out of her practice that she has a Balcon car and employs a chauf- four.

"Most of her clients," he said, are women, but I have seen men among them mon apparently of the retired Army officer type."

them invoked good health," others prosperity and as they did so. they dipped the arms deeply into the water and then sprinkled the liquid in the centre of the room, where there was soon a small pool. The idea was that as the water

owed on the loor, so their bond of usión, became merged,

Harmless, you may ang but 'this was Black Magio of a nega- tive character.":"

Midnight In Churchyard. Mr. Price then told of a mid- might experience with Oxford un- dergraduates in a churchyard near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Ho in- Bisted that the occasion wie not s

lark," and that those who took part is it were serious. Mr. Price went on:

"We motored out to the church, yard, intending to go through a rite of raising the dead. One of the young men read out an incan tation translated from a Latin script on an ancient parchmont,

All the time, tapors were bura- ed siter the manner of incense Ma--burning,

In an article in the current is- sue of "Nash's Pall Mall gazine" Mr. Price writes:

Toys that the miction of witchcraft is dead in miculous Every day I receive evidenco of the existence of the cult. But not all witches wear conical hate and ride on broomsticks. Sometimes they rent expensive flats and keep two cars

These witches are fashionable

crystalgazers, and live in South Kensington, MA CAR

"Even the ritual of black magic is extensively practised here...

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Party in Chelosa,

Mr. Price refers in his article to the existence of a lund of in itiates in London who have prac tised the art of raising the dead. He said.

"Some time ago. I went to party of men and women in Chel | sea, Each person had the right

"This took place round a grave which the young men decided was

suitable one. The ritual was continued for nearly three hours before the party agreed to abandon it, on the ground that either the moon or some of the heavenly bodies. were not, propitious, for the atteopt

"I know of the existence of cults

in London where Black Magic is practised. Its devotees hold what is known as the Black Mass. Usually they assemble in darkened Tooms. Incense is burned and in- cantations are uttered at certain hours of the night. The object is sometimes to bring evil to certain THOTOS."

Mr. Price then spoke of erysil gasing in London.

:

Crystal gazing," he said, "is merely a generic term for the whole thing. One woman I know usca a bowl of ink after the manner of the old Egyptian crystal gazers.

arm bare, and, in front of each The things seen in crystals are was a bowl of water. I was given cot objective, they are subjective, a bowl, and my arm also уда the things in the minds of the barod. A member of the party gater. One woman whom I know quite a serious one-then began practises crystal gazing for a liv certain rites which I discovered,ing, employs a chauffeur, and sho World Theatre: Fortune Teller's afterwards to be those followed by has secretary to arrange her an ancient Egyption order. 4 day's programme She is booked Daughter" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: Jím The Con- "These people were a hand of up for nearly two years ahead,[ ;; queror."

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