Occult:This month in history

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This page and its subpages serve as a curated list of important events in history to provide updates to the "This month in history" section on the main page.

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Woodcut of Vlad the Impaler

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Pamela Colman Smith

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The Vlad Dracula Tarot

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Sybil Leek casting a circle in New England

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Saint Joan of Arc

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Urbain Grandier being accused of witchcraft

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Jan Hus being burnt at the stake

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Angeline Tubbs

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Marie Laveau and her daughter.

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Representation of Halloween in the United States

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The Hieronymus Bosch Tarot

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Edward Kelley in a cemetery
  • December - The Rider-Waite Tarot is published for the first time. (1909)
  • 1 December - Occultist and author Aleister Crowley dies of chronic bronchitis. (1947)
  • 5 December - Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany. (1484)
  • 6 December - Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century. (1882)
  • 6 December - Birth of Dion Fortune, a Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author. (1890)
  • 9 December - The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City. (1531)
  • 9 December - Birth of Hélène Smith, a French psychic and occultist. (1861)
  • 11 December - Author and occultist Damien Echols is born. (1974)
  • 13 December - Occultist Johannes Trithemius is born. (1516)
  • 17 December - The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. (497 BC)
  • 17 December - The tomb of Marie Laveau in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is vandalized by an unknown person. (2013)
  • 19 December - Edward Kelley performs his first alchemical transmutation. (1586)
  • 21 December - A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623. (2020)
  • 21/22 December - winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • 25 December - A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian. (274)
  • 30 December - Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin is murdered by a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov. (1916)
  • 31 December - Birth of Simon Forman, an English occultist and astrologer. (1552)

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