Occult:This month in history/May
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- 2 May - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. (1536)
- 2 May - German Jesuit scholar and author Athanasius Kircher is born. (1602)
- 3 May - Occult horror film The Craft is released in theaters. (1996)
- 4 May - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. (1415)
- 7 May - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón is born. (1919)
- 8 May - Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. (1429)
- 9 May - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann successfully retrieves his diabolical pact from Satan with the help of an exorcist. (1678)
- 9 May - Doug Headrick, a 12-year-old boy, disappears from Devil's Gate Dam in Pasadena, California. (1960)
- 10 May - Antoine Court de Gébelin, author who wrote an early treatise on the Tarot, dies in Paris. (1784)
- 13 May - Psychic Jeane Dixon predicts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an issue of Parade Magazine. (1956)
- 15 May - French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who coined the terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, is born. (1811)
- 16 May - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. (1920)
- 19 May - Arthur Edward Waite, creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot, dies. (1942)
- 23 May - A merchant of Shiraz, the forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith, announces that he is a prophet and founds a religious movement. (1844)
- 23 May - German physician and astrologer, Franz Mesmer, is born. (1734)
- 24 May - Nicolaus Copernicus dies. (1543)
- 26 May - Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. (1896)
- 31 May - Occultist and author Éliphas Lévi dies. (1875)