Occult London (Pocket Essentials (Paperback))

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Wren reintroduced the hallowed number of 2000 cubits, or roughly 2/3 of a mile, which represented the distance from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem (the furthest a Jew was allowed to walk during the Sabbath), and proposed that many of London’s newly-constructed buildings be set 2000 cubits apart. Lord Nelson had his daughter christened at the church and Charles Dickens lived but a short distance away. Like Rome and Paris before it, and New York shortly thereafter, London now possessed one of the most highly charged artefacts in the occult tradition, an ancient Egyptian obelisk; a powerful talisman to the sun god.

The Clink Prison Museum takes visitors back to a grisly past that we all love hearing about, while rejoicing that we weren’t alive back then.

As one of the largest esoteric markets in the UK, Witchfest sells an array of mystic treats for the modern witch. Before posting, each Tripadvisor review goes through an automated tracking system, which collects information, answering the following questions: how, what, where and when. I love reading about London and it's not so glorious histories and characters, I really was looking forward to this book. This is not a reference to the ninth-best song ever written by John Squire, but rather the catchphrase of Aleister Crowley. Each of the numbered points on the map comes with an address, postcode and explanation of the location’s occult connections.

Valerie was very nice, helpful, on time and had a ton of knowledge on the Beatles and the sites we visited. In the North, you’ll find the spot where organist and saxophonist Graham Bond – tormented by demons and believing he was Aleister Crowley’s lovechild – leaped in front of a tube train. Legends such as Spring-Heeled Jack and the Vampire of Highgate Cemetery are examined, and the book concludes with a gazetteer of notable occult sites.London has been inhabited for thousands of years and the diversity of its settlements has resulted in a rich, if not peculiar, collection of occult traditions. To accomplish this prank, Valery purchased/hired props, which included faux Chinese pottery, wood ashes, and several professional West End actors to persuade the group that they had aided and abetted in the destruction of an ancient Chinese urn and desecration of its (faux) human remains.