Occult:This month in history/October

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Jack Parsons demonstrating a replica car bomb
  • 2 October - Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer is born. (1914)
  • 3 October - Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. (2457BC)
  • 4 October - The Gregorian calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. (1582)
  • 7 October - The reference date for the origin of the Hebrew calendar. (3761BC)
  • 12 October - The Salem Witch Trials are ended. (1692)
  • 13 October - Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy. (1307)
  • 15 October - George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received a "From Hell" letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper. (1888)
  • 17 October - The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered. (1817)
  • 27 October - Emperor Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. (312)
  • 27 October - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. (1553)
  • 29 October - First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. (1390)
  • 31 October - Peter Stumpp, the Werewolf of Bedburg, is burned along with his mistress and daughter. (1589)
  • 31 October - Thiess of Kaltenbrun, the Livonian Werewolf, is condemned to be flogged for heresy. (1692)