THE NEWCASTLE SUN

New Castle, New South Wales, Australia

5 February 1930

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NOT CANNIBAL.

DENIED HE ATE CHILDREN.

LECTURE BANNED.

Oxford University Action.

("Sun" Special)

LONDON, Tuesday

"A false accusation has been made that I have not only killed, but eaten, children," said Alister [sic] Crowley, whose lecture at Oxford University has been banned.

Crowley's lecture was to have been delivered before the Oxford Poetry Societies, on Gllles de Rois [sic], the 15th century magician, and the original "Bluebeard."

The University Building

Crowley told "The Manchester Guardian" that he believed that the trouble was due to a report that he was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death on Sicily of his secretary, an Oxford undergraduate [Raoul Loveday].

"Perhaps the lecture was doomed, because Gllles de Rois is said to have murdered 800 children.

"A false accusation has been made that I have not only killed, but eaten, children," said Crowley.