Occult:This month in history/September
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- 7 September - Scottish witch Agnes Sampson causes a storm which kills Jane Kennedy. (1589)
- 7 September - Helena Blavatsky and others establish the Theosophy Society in New York City. (1875)
- 8 September - French saint Joan of Arc is wounded during a failed assault on the city of Paris. (1429)
- 8 September - NBC airs a television pilot for The Omen. (1995)
- 10 September - Rosicrucian philosopher John Heydon is born. (1629)
- 10 September - New Orleans voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau is born. (1801)
- 11 September - At age 13, Frederick Santee becomes the youngest person to attend Harvard University. (1920)
- 12 September - Astrologer Simon Forman dies. (1611)
- 14 September - Italian poet Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, dies. (1321)
- 14 September - Occultist and author Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is born. (1486)
- 14 September - Occult publishing company Bloodstone Studios is founded in Los Angeles, California. (2018)
- 15 September - Reginald Scot, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, writes out his will. (1599)
- 15 September - Congolese soldier and tribal leader, Ngongo Lutete, is executed for treason. (1893)
- 16 September - The earliest-known reference to Trionfi cards are recorded by a Florentine notary. (1440)
- 17 September - Occultist, witch, medical doctor, and child prodigy Frederick Santee is born in rural Pennsylvania. (1906)
- 18 September - Aleister Crowley performs a "suicide stunt" in Lisbon, Portugal with Fernando Pessoa. (1930)
- 18 September - Artist Pamela Colman Smith dies. (1951)
- 18 September - Occult horror film The Witch screens at the Toronto International Film Festival. (2015)
- 19 September - Accused witch Giles Corey is executed by being crushed to death in the Salem Witch Trials.
- 20 September - Australian cannibal Alexander Pearce escapes from prison. (1824)
- 24 September - German alchemist Paracelsus dies. (1541)
- 24 September - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann signs a diabolical pact with Satan. (1668)
- 24 September - L. Ron Hubbard begins studying civil engineering at George Washington University. (1930)
- 26 September - Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is first published in the United Kingdom. (1988)
- 29 September - Michael Servetus is born. (1509/1511)
- 30 September - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims. (1888)