A Max Wizard in Victorian Liverpool - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

Beachcombing takes us back to 1857 and "fortune-tellers and their dupes," focussing on The Manx Wizard (presumably, though not mentioned, because he was a "Manxman," i.e. from the Isle of Man) and his advice to the love-lorn. At around the same time, Liverpool's near-neighbor had its own weirdness in the shape of Nut Nans, boggarts and the last of the Saddleworth fairies: Greater Manchester's weirdest supernatural stories revealed. Author Simon Young has published a book of these "folklore compositions" which is unlikely to make for comfortable bedtime reading: South Manchester Supernatural: The Ghosts, Fairies, Boggarts and Superstitions of Victorian Gorton, Lees, Newton and Saddleworth And, it had to happen: Aleister Crowley Goes From "Wickedest Man in the World" to Potential Tourist Attraction He's got some tough competition for that title nowadays, but creepy Crowley's former pad--twice torched in recent years--is not, after all, to become a centre for "occult and possible sex rituals," but a rather more sedate "grand Georgian Hunting Lodge." Perhaps the walls will be adorned with goat heads. (LP)

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