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The Crow King and the Tengu

Whilst I was halfway through writing a book of short stories (still a work in progress) about a particular character, “The Crow King” – a sort of minor bird-god – that I found out about the Tengu, and noticed a bizarre and uncanny resemblance. I thought I’d share my findings and how this serendipity occurred here.

The Case of Gottliebin Dittus & the demon Isacaron

Part VIII of the Possession Diaries In 1842, a girl in Mottlingen, Gottliebin Dittus, was possessed by a few different demons along with the ghost of a widow who had murdered two children and buried them in a field. Johann Christoph Blumhardt, a German theologian, penned a book concerning her two-years-long possession, in which he onlyContinue reading “The Case of Gottliebin Dittus & the demon Isacaron”