Occult:This month in history/August

• 1 August Occultist Edward Kelley is born. (1555)
• 1 August - Witchfinder Margaret Aitken is exposed as a fraud. (1597)
• 4 August - Scottish nobleman William II de Soules is brought before the Black Parliament on charges of treason. (1320)
• 12 August - Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins dies of tuberculosis. (1647)
• 29 August - Lilias Adie dies in prison, accused of witchcraft. (1704)
• 18 August - French priest Urbain Grandier is convicted of "magic, maleficence, and possession." (1634)
• 19 August - Occultist and author Damien Echols is freed from prison after making an Alford Plea. (2011)
• 25 August - Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible is born. (1530)
• 29 August - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann visits a church in Pottenbrunn seeking an exorcism. (1677)