THE BARRIER MINER

Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

4 March 1949

(page 5)

Raised Devils Lost £29,982.

London, March 4.—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 this week.

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.