THE KALGOORLIE MINER

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia

2 March 1949

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Alister [sic] Crowley Left £18.

"WORST MAN IN THE WORLD."

LONDON, Feb. 28.—Alister Crowley mystic and author of books on black magic who was once expelled from Italy for practicing private rituals and rites, left only £18 sterling in his will which was published to-day.

Crowley, who styled himself "The worst man in the world," died in December, 1947, aged 72. During his lifetime he inherited £30,000 sterling, travelled in the Orient, ran a "temple" in the City of London where he claimed to raise devils in its mirror-lined walls, and went bankrupt in 1934 after losing a libel action.