THE NEWS

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

1 March 1949

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Once Wealthy Magician Leaves £18.

London, Monday.—Aleister Crowley, mystic and author of books on black magic, who was once expelled from Italy for practising private rituals and rites, left only £18 in his will, published today.

Crowley, who styled himself "The worst man in the world," died in December, 1947, aged 72.

During his lifetime, Crowley, who inherited £30,000, travelled in the Orient, and ran a "temple" in London, in which he claimed to raise devils in its mirror-lined walls. He went bankrupt in 1934 after losing a libel action.—AAP.