THE MIAMI DAILY NEWS

Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

1 February 1931

Startling Revelations of Weird, Mysterious,

Cults That Have Broken Out Around the Globe.

Analysis by an Expert of Devil Worship, Sun and Nudity Rites,

Voodoo and Other Strange Practises—TODAY Abasement of

the Flesh; Human Sacrifice, Pantheism and Blood-Drinking.

By Bruce Gant

TIGER HEART.

Aleister Crowley, the British Mystic and Woman-Brander. He's Shown

Here in Ceremonial Robes of Fur, About to Pronounce an Invocation.

His Novel "Diary of a Drug Fiend," Caused a Sensation.

Still another gripping installment in the series of articles by Bruce Gant, journalist and investigator, dealing with current cult activities is printed today.

This describes minutely and fascinatingly various phases of mystic and menacing endeavour, such as the abasement of flesh, sacrifice of human beings and animals, the worship of the Great God Pan, and, most startling of all, the actual ritual procedure in conducting Voodoo blood-drinking rites on the Island of Haiti.

The weird rites of many mysterious modern-day cults have sent several women to horrible deaths, and the stories which have unfolded . . .

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Abasement of the flesh, as a more modernized form of sacrifice, was practised by Aleister Crowley, head of a cult. He impressed on his followers, many intelligent, wealthy and of social standing, the importance of asceticism and whipping and voluntary self-mortification as practised by holy men and women and early religionists of the Middle Ages. He was found on one occasion branding with a point of a red-hot dagger on Leah Hirsig, a school teacher, the symbol of his “Love Temple.” She submitted to it voluntarily, as Crowley assured those who surprised him in the act, and he merely explained that she had been “Lea the Dead Soul,” and was now “The Scarlet Woman.” She became his most ardent follower.

Among the mysterious deaths which have grown out of love cultism is that of the beautiful Mrs. Marcella Lord, wife of Horace Lord, a Fall River, Mass., school teacher. She perished . . .