‘How beautiful they areThe lordly onesWho dwell in the hills,In the hollow hills’Fiona Macleod – ‘The Immortal Hour’
To go in search of the unknown can be a perilous path. One such unfortunate was student of the occult Norah Fornario, who leaves behind an incomplete life and a cautionary tale. Wild conjecture about her death in November 1929 has sprung up like a dense mass of tangled weeds. From the outset, Miss Fornario’s curious demise was obscured by sensationalised newspaper reports. The cauldron of speculation was kept on the boil by authors such as Francis King, who covered the case in the bestselling 1970 book Ritual Magic. In more recent times, a concoction of imaginative misinformation has made a minor Internet cult out of the ill-starred young woman who sought…
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