Aleister Crowley, an occultist, poet, and self-appointed magician, was known a century ago as “the wickedest man in the world.” But he did at least one good thing: Contributed to the sexual awakening ...
Walpurga Hausmännin, a German midwife accused of witchcraft, confessed to killing 41 babies, 2 women in labor, and at least 9 cows before she was burned at the stake in 1587. But those and other ...
Among the items held in the Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections are numerous rare volumes on a subject quite fitting for autumn in New England: the supernatural. Among the topics ...