Showing posts with label cults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cults. Show all posts

Saturday, October 7, 2023

The Black Canon of Lyons | M.P. Pellicer

In early 1893, Joseph-Antoine Boullan died. A defrocked priest, he was the head of a schismatic branch called the Church of the Carmel. He was also known as the Black Canon of Lyons.


Born in 1824, Boulan was ordained in 1848. He became a follower of Eugene Vintras, once a foreman in a cardboard box factory who claimed to be the reincarnation of Elijah.

Vintras founded two sects, the Work of Mercy and the Eliate Church of Carmel. He was dogged by rumors of demonic rituals and sexual excesses. In an 1846 pamphlet he was accused of homosexuality, conducting black masses in the nude and masturbating on the altar. He was condemned by the Pope, which would have made him a very unsuitable person for a Catholic priest to fraternize with.

Saturday, September 9, 2023

Folk Ritual Magic Gone Wrong | M.P. Pellicer

It was the dark of night on Thanksgiving Day 1928, when three farmers stole into the house of another man located in York County's Rehmeyer's Hollow. They tortured and murdered Nelson Rehmeyer spurred by the belief that he was a witch doctor steeped in the old Dutch mysticism known as Pow-Wows.

 

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

THE LEOPARD MEN | M.P. Pellicer

THE LEOPARD MEN: ​​For many centuries, as early as the 1700s, a cult existed in West Africa, particularly in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It was a secret society that believed its members could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft. 



Saturday, June 3, 2023

​THE CULT OF THE LEOPARD MEN

​THE CULT OF THE LEOPARD MEN: The cult of Abakua (Abaqua) originated in Nigeria, and came to Cuba with slaves in the early 19th century. Its all-male members are known as Ñáñigos, and it's believed they could transform into leopards to kill their enemies.



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