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)
- 10 August - Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel determines Sirius has an unseen companion. (1844)
- 12 August - Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins dies of tuberculosis. (1647)
- 16 August - Angeline Tubbs, the Witch of Saratoga, dies. (1856)
- 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 - Five people are executed in the Salem Witch Trials. (1692)
- 19 August - Occultist and author Damien Echols is freed from prison after making an Alford Plea. (2011)
- 21 August - A Voodoo ceremony turns into a violent rebellion sparking the Haitian Revolution. (1791)
- 25 August - Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible is born. (1530)
- 25 August - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his telescope to Venetian lawmakers. (1609)
- 29 August - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann visits a church in Pottenbrunn seeking an exorcism. (1677)
- 31 August - Mary Ann Nicholas is murdered, the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. (1888)