I can't say that I had heard of this fracas before, but I guess it shows one swift kick trumps magic:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel
https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/
1900
aleister crowley
blythe road
bram stoker
ceremonial magic
duels
hammersmith
london
magic(k) & magicians
occultism
occultists & occultism
poets & poetry
richard ellman
ritual magic
secret societies
the hermetic order of the golden dawn
thelema
victorians
w. b. yeats
For a few years in my childhood in the late 1960s, I lived in a rented flat above the coach garages in the stable block of Letton Hall.
Letton Hall was a minor stately home in mid Norfolk (UK). It was formerly occupied by landed gentry, [edit, I originally wrote Lord] Baron and Lady Cranworth...
This is one of my favourite weird tales!
It's like a 'Mary Celeste', but happened on the remote islands west of the Hebrides at the beginning of the last century.
'Strange Islands.
The Flannan Islands have long been the focal point of many superstitions by the local people. Indeed there...
This is an old interest of mine, although it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on this MB before. New ideas on old Greek mechanism.
Begins:
WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the...
1900
alexander jones
allan bromley
ancient astronomy
ancient civilisations
archaeology
archimedes
astronomy
cicero
computers & computing
derek price
elias stadiatos
historical mysteries
john steele
michael wright
poseidonius
shipwrecks
the antikythera mechanism
the athens national archaeological museum
the greeks
the science museum
theodosios tassios
tony freeth
unidentified devices
valerios stais
xenophon moussas
yiannis bitsakis
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