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The Pentagram The Pentagram :A Five Thousand Year History Five Points, Five Thousand Years The pentagram is the oldest star we own. It has meant health, truth, Christ, the cosmos and the Devil. The symbol never changed. We did. A star with a reputation Look around. The pentagram is everywhere, and nobody flinches. It sits on the flags of more than fifty nations. It marks the rank of a general and the badge of a sheriff. It crowns the Christmas tree in a Christian home. Children draw it...

Occult Movies - What they get wrong What Occult Movies Get Catastrophically Wrong THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS Hollywood has a peculiar relationship with the occult. It is the relationship of a man who has heard about surgery, once watched a documentary about hospitals, and has now decided to perform open-heart surgery on a paying audience using a butter knife and enormous confidence. The results are spectacular. They are also, for anyone who has spent more than forty-five minutes reading...

The Quija Board THE BOARD THAT SPEAKS A History of the Ouija Board How a parlour novelty became the world's most infamous conduit between the living and the not-quite-gone A COMPLETE HISTORY · FROM THE SPIRIT CABINET TO THE TOY SHOP It begins, as so many peculiar things do, with grief. The dead do not stay quiet. They never have. Across every culture, in every era, the living have found ways to listen for them — or at least to convince themselves they could. But the Ouija board is a specific...