THE DAILY NEWS

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

1 March 1949

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ONCE RICH ‘DEVIL MAN’ LEAVES £22 IN WILL.

LONDON, Tues (AAP): A 72-year-old mystic who once inherited £A37,500 and styled himself ‘the worst man in the world’ left only £A22 in his will. He was Aleister Crowley, author of books on black magic, who died in December, 1947. Crowley, who was once expelled from Italy for practising private rituals and rites, travelled in the Orient, later ran a ‘temple’ in London where he claimed to raise devils in its mirror-lined walls. He went bankrupt in 1934 after losing a libel action.