I Was A Real Teenage Werewolf: The Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Trial of Jean Grenier In 1603, the French teenager Jean Grenier was tried for assault, murder, cannibalism and witchcraft by the Parlement of Bordeaux. Despite the loss of the trial records, the case is known through the writing of Pierre de Lancre (1553?–1631), but was…
Tag: satanism
Tonight we are going to invoke Satan – just for fun
Did I ever tell you about the time I went to a Black Mass? No? Pick up this month’s copy of Paranormal magazine and read ‘Talk of the Devil, Part 2’ – all will be revealed. From the contents page: Continuing the history of the Prince of Evil, the Devil is brought in to the…
Remember The Exorcist?
The priest approaches the bed, a smile on his face. His words are kindly as he addresses the girl bound to the bed frame… Leo Ruickbie, ‘Talk of the Devil’, Paranormal, 51, September 2010.
History of the Devil
New two-part history of the Devil to be published in Paranormal magazine. In the first of a two-part feature Leo Ruickbie reveals the history of the force of evil known in the Western tradition as variously Satan, Lucifer, the Enemy, the Adversary, and most commonly the Devil. In part one Leo reveals the Devil’s origins…
Dealing with the Devil
This paper given at Reinventing the Renaissance Occult, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 14 November 2009, explored the development of the Faustian Pact, looking at how the Renaissance magician Faustus came to be condemned as having made a pact with the Devil, and how this condemnation itself came to be a pattern for magical practice. Pacts…