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Against the objections of her family, Evangeline Adams began studying astrology when she was 18. She has read widely in all fields of the occult and in the classics of all ages. Today, in her late fifties, she writes and talks (usually out of the right side of her mouth) with a vigorous punch. In her new book, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun* she says: "The wise man cooperates with the stars, the fool thinks he rules them...
Count Bruga's tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized...
...large glass cases on the third floor, a small double basket of wicker work is suspended by an ordinary piece of copper wire from the top of the case. The wire is fastened to a nail which, if we disregard the aid of the occult sciences, can be found to possess no unusual qualities...
...call--and enjoyed greater power than any modern mystic has dared profess. And now that her records are to be made public--now that the famous leaves are to be gathered by the grammarians and what note of Italy, one wonders how well this early priestess of the occult did her duty by her trade...
Mystery. Curiously enough, the Zaharoff legend remains most vigorous among the Spanish nobility, where it took its earliest roots. In a recent volume (see BOOKS) H. R. H. the Infanta Eulalia of Spain speaks of "Sir Basil Zaharoff and other prominent figures associated with the occult force which now directs Europe...