The Riddle of Netta Fornario

The Green Ray
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-25441-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Gothic

On a bleak November morning in 1929, the body of a woman was discovered on a hillside on Iona in the Inner Hebrides. It soon became a gothic mystery. The woman was Norah Fornario, who called herself Netta or used her magical name of Mac Tyler. She had been on the island conjuring the Green Ray in order to contact the Sidhe, the human-sized fairies that she believed lived in the hillside. This is the first full-length academic biography of the supernatural world of female occultism in the 1920s and the many strange connections related to Fornario’s death, including her work with Dion Fortune, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Fairy Investigation Society, psychic vampires, the creation of the early counterculture of Glastonbury and the ‘discovery’ of the Holy Grail. Garbled versions of her life abound on YouTube, and Fornario has now become a central figure for alternative lifestyles. This is her story recreated through careful investigation of her magical reading and ceremonial practices, and of her family and her journey to Scotland. She was the only person who is known to have died through a magic ceremony.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloom, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Spiritualismus, Spiritismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: THE HAUNTED WOMAN.- Chapter One: Oh! Whistle and I’ll Come to You.- Chapter Two: Voodoo Child.- Chapter Three: Into the Mist.- Chapter Four: A Blackened Cross.- Chapter Five: Of Miracles and Wonders.- Chapter Six: Angels in the Architecture.- Chapter Seven: Landscapes of Ancient Stones.- Chapter Eight: The Call of the Isles.- Chapter Nine: Vanishings.- Chapter Ten: Occult Whispers.- Chapter Eleven: Book of Concealed Mystery.- PART TWO: IN FAIRYLAND.- Chapter Twelve: The Inward Vision and the Outward Sign.- Chapter Thirteen: Strange Fascination.- Chapter Fourteen: A Prisoner of Fairyland.- Chapter Fifteen: The Green Ray.- Chapter Sixteen: Adventurer of the Dreaming Mind.- Chapter Seventeen: Trance Culture.- Chapter Eighteen: Women with Horns.- Chapter Nineteen:  A Cammell on Iona.- PART THREE: GODDESS OF WEBS.- Chapter Twenty: On Planet Iona in the Constellation Hebrides.- Chapter Twenty-One: The Endless Beginning .- Chapter Twenty-Two: Cat People.

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Bloom is currently Visiting Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing, University of Hull, and a Research Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara (Romania), having previously been a Research Fellow at New York University, USA. He is Emeritus Professor of English & American Studies at Middlesex University and a best-selling author and publisher of over twenty books on politics, gothic literature and London.