Some Chinese Banks Suspend "Interbank Business" As Regulator Demands That Collateral "Actually Exists"
With "risk" in most of the developed world seemingly a long forgotten four-letter word, as seen by today's plunge in the VIX to a level not seen since 1993, traders hoping for some "risk event" have been confined to the recent turmoil in China, where overnight not only did trade data disappoint, with both imports and exports missing, but bond yields jumped to the highest level since 2015, dragging stocks lower even as the local commodity crash slammed iron ore and copper to new YTD lows.
While largely a "controlled" tightening, meant to contain China's out-of-control shadow banking system, the recent gyrations in Chinese capital markets are starting to have a profound impact on local funding, resulting in a collapse in new bond issuance, and according to FT calculations, in April the number of aborted issues rose to 154, up from 94 in March, 32 in February and 31 in January.
As DB added, "local bond markets are practically shut for corporates. In fact, YTD issuance is down 40%+ yoy and net issuance has been negative in three out of the first four months this year. A number of issuers are being forced to cancel bond issuances (over RMB100 billion YTD) and there were reports (Bloomberg) of even CDB halting issuance (though subsequently denied). Some AA corporates are now issuing at north of 7%."
These signs of mounting stress in China's $9.3 trillion bond market come less than a month after the country's banking regulator, Guo Shuqing, was quoted as supporting a campaign to sort out chaotic practices, and threatening to resign if the banking system became "a complete mess".
Overnight, Deutsche Bank's China analyst Harsh Agarwal noticed the "gyrations" in the bond market, and compared the current selloff in onshore bonds to the similar episode one year ago, saying "this time, it's sharper and longer - AAA yield & spreads are almost 200bp and 100bp wider respectively in the past 6 months or so - because of China's focus away from growth to deleveraging. This is far from over in our view. Every day we see headlines on new regulations trying to control leverage in different parts of the system - WMPs, insurance companies, banks, etc. Having said this, we do believe in China's ability to make a U-turn quickly if the situation goes beyond control, and see these changes as a long term positive, hence we are not overly worried as of now."
Maybe not as of now, but Agarwal is surely getting more concerned with every incremental negative news out of China, even as the PBOC refuses to inject more liquidity, as it just did moments ago when for the third day in a row, the central bank skipped open market operations.
Meanwhile, confirming that Beijing is clearly concerned about developments behind the scene, potentially culminating in the worst possible case for China's banking system - a shadow bank run -China Banking Regulatory Commission said in guidelines on banks' collateral management posted on its website.
Commercial banks should carry out pressure tests on collaterals at least once a year, China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) posted new guidelines on banks' collateral management, among which that banks should revalue collateral at least once a year; and that banks are being urged to prevent risks in the collateral business. Of course, since this is the country where due to "infinite rehypothecation" of collateral, thousands of tons of copper and aluminum were "found" to be missing at China's Qingdao Port, urging Chinese banks to engage in collateral "quality control" seems like a lost cause.
the collateral has a good ability to achieve liquidity.
In a subsequent notice posted in the Securities Times, the Chinese outlet reports that some Chinese rural banks have suspended their interbank businesses including negotiable certificates of deposit (or NCDs) "temporarily" while regulators conduct spot checks. It further adds that at the end of March total interbank liabilities of 25 banks listed in China's stock market dropped by 1.54t yuan from end-2016, report says, citing Wind Info data, suggesting a sharp contraction in shadow funding.
While it was not immediately clear what the underlying catalyst for the unexpected move was, recall that at the end of March, Deutsche Bank reported that in the most recent troubling trend involving Chinese banks, numerous smaller banks had become acutely reliant on such shadow banking funding mechanism as Certificates of Deposit, which had become the primary source of short-term funding for many of China's banks mid-size and smaller banks.
As DB further explained, the banks most exposed to a shut down in this "shadow funding" pathway are medium-sized and small banks, for whome as of 1H16, wholesale funding made up 31% and 23%, a number that has risen substantially in the interim period.
As Deutsche reflected just over a month ago, "we view banks that are more reliant on CDs as more vulnerable to rising rates and tighter regulations."
Reflecting tighter liquidity, the interbank CD rate has rallied strongly, with the 6-month CD pricing at 4.6% on average. Some CDs issued by smaller rural commercial banks have been priced close to 5% recently. This would have pushed up the funding cost and notably for smaller banks. If banks invest in low-risk assets such as mortgages, discounted bills and treasury bonds, this would lead to a negative spread. Alternatively, banks can lengthen asset duration, increase the risk appetite, add leverage or slow down asset growth. Among these alternatives, we believe a slowdown in asset growth is the most likely.
And while it is tangential, here is a list of the banks most exposed to a sudden cardiac arrest involving CDs: INDB, SPDB and PAB are among the most exposed to interbank CDs.
We would not be surprised if these are among the banks that as of this evening have "suspended their interbank businesses."
For now, probably not, especially in a year of leadership transition. In our view, the risk of an uncontrollable liquidity event is low, as the PBOC will do whatever it takes to inject liquidity if needed. In the domestic liquidity market, the PBOC exerts strong influence in both the volume and pricing of liquidity. With 90%+ of financial institutions directly or indirectly controlled by the government, PBOC will likely continue to give liquidity support. In 2H15, the central bank established an interest rate corridor to contain interbank rates within a narrow range and pledged to inject unlimited liquidity to support banks with funding needs.
However, continuing liquidity injections do not come without a cost. A bigger asset bubble, persistent capital outflow pressure and a lower yield curve over the longer term are side effects that China will have to bear. At the same time, the execution risk of PBOC itself is rising.
In other words, whether or not China keels over and has a hard (or worse) landing, will depend on the PBOC; when (not if) the central bank gets involved, will depend on how soon China's banks and various CD-funded financial institutions run out of collateral (whether it exists or not) to sell, such as iron ore, copper, precious metals, bonds and even stocks. This will hardly come as a surprise. As we showed last month, the only reason the Chinese banking system hasn't imploded, is due to nearly CNY 10 trillion in central bank liquidity support for the local banks.
One thing, however, is certain: with western central banks refusing to let the market clear on its own, or deflate the $14 trillion liquidity bubble which has suppressed price formation for the past 8 years, the PBOC is merely doing what all of its "civilized" peers have been doing for years - kicking the can, and praying.
Until then, however, things may be about to get a whole lot worse for China's capital and commodity markets.


Malocclusion in which a tooth is lingual to the line of the normal dental arch: "When the dentist checked his patient's teeth, he noticed a displacement, or linguoclusion, of a tooth that was pointing abnormally towards the tongue."
Faulty alignment of the teeth: Eugene's neighbor had to wear a retainer to overcome the malocclusions of her teeth so she could chew her food properly.
The antonym for malocclusion is the rarely used term of "benocclusion" or "good alignments of the teeth.
A navigable body of water; such as, a sea, that is under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others.
Malocclusion characterized by mesial displacement of one or more of the lower teeth.
A reference to cavities and restorations involving these surfaces.
1. To stop, to close up, or to obstruct an opening, an orifice, or a passage: Caron was told that thick makeup can occlude the pores of her facial skin.
Ted's doctor told him that the blood vessel in his leg was occluding and that it was necessary that surgery be done so the blood could flow properly again.
2. To shut something in: The city has been occluding some areas with a significant number of apartment buildings.
3. To close onto or to align the upper and the lower teeth in proper positions for chewing or for being in their normal contacts when the mouth is closed: Maurice had to go to the dentist to occlude his molars so he could eat properly after some of them were extracted and replaced with a partial denture which could be removed for cleaning and then replaced in his mouth.
4. Etymology: from Latin occludere, "to close up"; from ob-, " toward, against, before" + claudere, "to close".
1. An object that partially or completely impedes the amount of light reaching an eye or the eyes.
2. An implement designed to temporarily block light to an eye.
3. A catheter-delivered device that blocks a hole in the wall of a heart: "Often the occluder is designed with an umbrella-type design and is folded up until the catheter arrives at the area of the defect in the heart."
"Once in place the occluder is unfolded on both sides of the defect so that pressure from both sides keeps it in place."
Injury to the periodontium caused by occlusal forces transmitted through a tooth: "Occlusal trauma is related to occlusions of the teeth; especially, the chewing or biting surfaces resulting in occlusal wear."
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CIMA Issues Report on Media Reforms in Sub- Saharan Africa
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) has released a new report focused on pathways to media reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It recommends building new networks of solidarity and developing new skills and approaches.
The report was drawn from the discussions of 36 experts in media and governance from 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa who met in Durban, South Africa, in July 2017 to discuss strategies for confronting the growing challenges to media pluralism in the African region.
The report title "Pathways to Media Reform in Sub‑Saharan Africa : Reflections from a Regional Consultation" was written by Herman Wasserman, professor of media studies and director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Nicholas Benequista, research manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance.
It was built on the experts' discussions and drawn from research from across the continent to put forward a vision of how broader cross-country coalitions in sub-Saharan Africa could create pathways around the complex political, economic, and technological challenges of the day as well as media systems that could support the revitalization of democracies in the region.
The authors, suggested pathways on how the continued struggle for vibrant, independent, and plural media systems in sub-Saharan Africa might be able to effectively bolster efforts of democratic revitalization.
The new publication also expanded on insights and ideas that came from the expert discussion by documenting previously successful media reforms in sub-Saharan Africa.
This document puts forward a strategic vision for international collaboration and solidarity in sub-Saharan Africa in support of media pluralism; it does not intend to suggest a blueprint or template, but is a call for more coordinated and strategic action.
The report highlighted issues around media development in sub-Saharan Africa which include, threats affecting media freedom gains, the place of media in African politics, building broader coalitions for media reform and assessment of current networks – organizations and networks dedicated to media support in sub-Saharan Africa.
As a result of the deterioration of democratic culture and a growing intolerance towards the media across the sub-Saharan Africa, the need to build new networks of solidarity and develop new skills and approaches was recommended in the report.
Building new networks of solidarity: Experts group identified the need to formulate a common position for advocating on media issues at the global level and at important upcoming events on the continent. In building these new networks of solidarity, particular attention should be paid to under-represented organizations and actors in existing coalitions, such as research groups, media literacy organizations, and transnational or regional networks.
Developing new skills and approaches: For African media to continue to be relevant in a political context of growing intolerance for the media, it needs to develop new strategies of coping with challenges to its democratic role. To meet these new challenges, more than advocacy for media independence, freedom, and pluralism will be required. Journalists and citizens in the region will have to develop critical literacies that would enable them to meet these new challenges and engage more effectively with policy makers and ensure greater sustainability for the media in a changing environment. Collaboration with research organizations and universities in the region can play an important role in this regard.
To download the full report, please visit Pathways to Media Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Meduoteran stands for authentic music and innovation that nowadays is rarely heard of in this reduced and primary form. Taylan Arikan and Srdjan Vukasinovic and Gilles Apap express their compositions with just 3 instruments and create new worlds of sound with baglama (anatolian lute), accordion and violin. The band presents collection of music from classic, jazz to ethnic music.
The Colors of Invention, founded by Gilles Apap in 2000 is a chamber group with rather unconventional character, performing actively worldwide. Their repertoire includes various arrangements of classical works including Vivaldi 'Four Seasons', Ravel 'Tzigane', Kreiesler 'Praeludium and Allegro' to traditional folk and gypsy tunes.
The band shook the classical music scene with their unparalleled interpretations of classical works arranged for violin, viola, guitar and double-bass, interspersed with traditional folk tunes followed soon after by 3 CD recordings for Sony Classical.
A completely new recording featuring some great music from the traditional gypsy repertoire and the jazz swing era. This CD includes a few remakes of tunes found on the group's CDs from the 1990's on Sony Classical.
Gilles playing and singing with friends.
Bach and Ysaye sonatas, seasoned with traditional Irish and American tunes.
Includes two versions of the Mozart cadenza.
The four concerti interspersed with traditional folk tunes from around the world, in a fresh version of this much-recorded work.
Gilles Apap and the Colors of Invention, Corey Jamason, Marie-Pierre Langlamet Various encore favorites, including works by Sarasate, Faure, Gluck, Wieniawski, Kreisler, and Pop.
Three sonatas for violin and piano, with bonus "hidden" track.
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Known affectionately as the "Bugeye" in the US and "Frog-Eye" in the UK, the Mark I Austin-Healey Sprite was an entry level British sports car introduced in 1958. Designers Donald Healey and Leonard Lord saw a chance to fill a gap in the market below the larger and more expensive MGA. Instead of a traditional body-on-frame construction, the Sprite would become the world's first high-volume unibody sports car. It was marketed as a car small and inexpensive enough that "a chap could keep it in his bike shed." To keep production costs down, parts were utilized from other British Motor Corporation cars, including the engine and front suspension from the Austin A35 and the rack-and-pinion steering from the Morris Minor.
BMC's Competition Department entered the Sprite into competition starting in 1958. It won its class at the 1958 Alpine Rally. In 1959, the Sprite achieved a 1-2-3 finish in its class at Sebring, followed by a 6th place finish in its class at the Targa Florio later that year. In 1960 and '61, Sprites won class victories in many events including Sebring and Le Mans, piloted by well-known drivers such as Walt Hansgen, Bruce McLaren, and Pat and Stirling Moss. Mark I Sprites are still often seen in amateur competition today, sixty years after its introduction.
The Mark I Sprite seen here has a racing-style headrest behind the driver's seat, and an unknown aftermarket nose attached to the front of the vehicle, losing its familiar upright headlights and grille. The sloping front end provided better downforce on the racetrack. Many companies offered similar aerodynamic aides.
Manufacturer: Donald Healey Motor Co. Ltd.


Founded in 1973 by Eric Tabarly and Gerard Petipas, the Pen Duick name is steeped in history. Originally created to manage Tabarly's famous yachts of the same name, in 1985, with the arrival of Pierre Bojic, the company took a new direction, devoting itself to the creation and organisation of offshore races.
In 2004, the Télégramme Group, a major French media, sports and entertainment group, acquired Pen Duick and with it, an events portfolio that included the Route du Rhum and the Solitaire du Figaro.
As part of their diversification strategy, in 2014, the Télégramme Group acquired a majority share in OC Sport, resulting in the merger of OC Sport and Pen Duick. From this moment, a new key player in professional sailing was born, OC Sport Pen Duick. Today, the company has the largest portfolio of sailing events in the world.
Created in 1992, the Transat AG2R La Mondiale is a double-handed transatlantic marathon, contested on one-design Figaro Beneteau yachts. Taking place every two years, the race starts from Concarneau, France, and finishes in Saint-Barts, covering a distance of 3,890 nautical miles. Since 1992, 400 teams have taken on this epic challenge, including some of the sport's best known sailors.
The Solitaire URGO Le Figaro is the world's leading annual solo sailing race, and is a flagship event in French offshore sailing. Contested in one-design yachts, the race attracts some of the world's best solo sailors alongside aspiring amateurs looking to make their mark in the offshore world. Taking place annually, the race is normally between 1,500 to 2,000 nautical miles.
The Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe is a classic, single-handed, transatlantic race, taking place every four years between Saint Malo, Brittany, France and Pointe-à- Pitre, Guadeloupe.
With over 100 entries on the start line across five classes, it attracts some of the biggest names in the sport. The race attracts more two million people to its race villages, who are drawn by one of the most popular sailing races in France.
Created in 1960 by a handful of pioneering British sailors, including Sir Francis Chichester, The Transat, is the original single-handed offshore race. Organised every four years, the race covers 3,500 miles of open water across the north Atlantic from southwest England to New York City.
It is a challenge dominated by the progression of low pressure systems sweeping the ocean that produce the headwinds that define this classic race, making it one of the toughest tests for sailors.
Eric Tabarly is the father figure of French ocean racing. He was an icon to those who followed him, inspiring a whole generation of offshore racers through his training and teaching. A national hero, who was lost at sea in June 1998, Tabarly is now a part of French history, but his passion for sailing lives on through the Tabarly brand.
OC Sport Pen Duick is the licensee for the Tabarly brand. The brand is reflective of the man's values, DNA and passion and provides a modern-day anchor to this important part of French sailing history.
Pen Duick was the name of Eric Tabarly's first sailing yacht, as well as his five yachts that followed. OC Sport Pen Duick is today the guardian of the Pen Duick brand, which stands for innovation, strong values and victory.


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Nocturnal Revelries
Horror and Occult Book Reviews
Tag: black magic
The Legend of the Mass of Saint Sécaire
This is an original translation of Jean-François Bladé's description of the diabolical Mass of Saint Sécaire:
Of course, some magicians have a more dangerous trick up their sleeves, one of these being the Mass of Saint Sécaire. It withers a man's body, little by little, and doctors won't be able to diagnose what's happening to him.
Very few priests know the Mass of St. Sécaire; and three quarters of those who know it will never perform it, neither for gold nor for money. Only evil priests, damned without hope of redemption, are willing to do it. These are the type of miscreants who never stay two consecutive days in the same place. They travel by night, constantly on the run, today on the mountain, tomorrow in Bordeaux or Bayonne.
The Mass of St. Sécaire can only be said in an abandoned church that has been partly demolished or tainted by some terrible occurrence. These churches should house owls, bats, and occasionally gypsies. Under the altar, there should be plenty of croaking toads.
For the mass, the evil priest brings his mistress with him to serve him as clerk. He must be alone in the church with this slut, and they must share a fine supper. At the stroke of eleven o'clock, the mass begins and continues until midnight. The communion wafer is black, and three-pointed. The evil priest does not consecrate wine: he drinks water from a well in which an unbaptised child has been drowned. The sign of the cross is made on the ground with the priest's left foot.
There are other terrible things that happen at the Mass of St. Sécaire, but to see them happening would blind a good Christian for the rest of their lives.
This is how some terrible people wreak vengeance on their foes.
The evil priests and their customers will find themselves in a nasty situation on judgement day. Only the Pope of Rome can grant forgiveness for this most terrible of sins, and the penance that must be paid is truly Hellish and must last until the death of the sinner. Very few of these wretches submit to their penance, and most die damned to eternal suffering in Hell.
There is a way to guard against the Mass of St. Sécaire; but I do not know the counter-mass that must be said. Please believe that if I had been taught it, I would pass it on to you…(there's a couple of lines here that I'm omitting because they have nothing to do with the mass.) Unfortunately, the counter-mass only has the power to gradually kill the bad priest and the people who paid him. Both will die as their victim did, without knowing the cause of their own death.
I first heard of the abominable mass of Saint Sécaire in Montague Summers' The History of Witchcraft, and I recall it popping up again when I was reading H.T.F. Rhodes' The Satanic Mass. The description was intriguing. Summers notes that he read about this horrible rite in Jean-François Bladé's 1883 book, Quatorze Superstitions Populaires de la Gascogne. An almost identical description appeared 7 years later in James Frazer's Golden Bough, and this doubtlessly brought the Mass to the attention of a larger audience. You can find Frazer's account online, but I always want to read the original of everything and I wasn't able to find a direct English translation of Bladé's text online, so I made one myself. My French isn't great, but after comparing my translation with Frazer, I'm confident that the above gets the message across.
Frazer omits the few lines about the counter-mass at the end of Bladé's description of the Mass of Saint Sécaire, but otherwise his account is almost identical. The descriptions of the mass in the aforementioned books by Summers and Rhodes follow directly in this line of succession. (Summers provides another extremely similar account in his later book, A Popular History of Witchcraft.)
When I briefly mentioned this blasphemous ritual in a post 4 years ago, I knew that I'd have to return to it at some stage. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a novel that had been lying on my shelf for years. It turns out that the Mass of Saint Sécaire is a major part of the story.
The Witching Night – C.S. Cody (Leslie Waller)
Bantam 1974 (First published 1952)
I'm ripping through my paperback collection at the moment, and I'm trying to get some of the boring ones out of the way with. When I was starting The Witching Night, I assumed that it would be fairly dull. It turns out that it's actually a Satanic love story filled with mystery and suspense. This book is absolutely deadly.
A doctor encounters an old friend who is dying. The doctor realises that something very peculiar is going on, but his friend won't speak explicitly about it. The only clue he gives before dying is the name of a girl. When the doctor tracks her down, he finds her irresistible. The only problem is that she is the Satanic witch who performed the Mass of Saint Sécaire that killed his friend! The doctor soon suspects that he too has been cursed, but he can't bring himself to sever his relationship with the woman who he knows is responsible.
Fuck yes.
Some grisly Satanic rituals are described, but the really entertaining part of the book is how the author gets into the psychology of what'd be like to fall for a very sexy, yet very evil, witch. Imagine being in love with a person who was slowly killing you. There are also some really interesting dream sequences and supporting characters in here, and I was kept guessing what would happen until the last few pages. This is a surprisingly well written book. (So well written in fact, that I discovered some pathetic loser who copied the text, changed the names of the characters and tried to pass it off as her own work. Join me in complaining to her publisher.)
The author of The Witching Night, Leslie Waller, used 'C.S. Cody' as a pseudonym for this work, and as far as I can tell didn't write any more occult themed fiction. This is unfortunate, as he did so in a tasteful way. The occultism in here is serious and effective. This isn't a Scooby-Doo episode where the devil is unmasked and demystified at the end. The power of Satan is real! And while it's an infamous black magic ritual that moves the plot of this book along, the author doesn't rely on occult references to make his book entertaining.
Frazer's account of the Mass is quoted in this novel, but later in the book the female character admits to having said the mass herself. This doesn't really make sense, as she's obviously not a Catholic priest, but I'll let it slide because it adds to the story. Also, Waller describes a hitherto unmentioned way to cancel the effects of the Mass, but you'll want to read the book to find out what that is.
After reading The Witching Night and realising that I'd have to do discuss the Mass of Saint Sécaire in my review of this book, I decided to check out the Aleister Crowley story about the Mass too. It was written in 1918 and published as part of Golden Twigs, a book of 8 short stories that were influenced by Frazer's Golden Bough.
All 8 of the Golden Twigs tales are featured in this collection.
If you've read the above description of the mass, this story is pretty straightforward. Two men love one woman. She loves one back. The other lad gets jealous and gets a dodgy priest to say the Mass… No surprises. I think I liked Crowley's description of the Mass best. I mean, it gives the exact same details as Bladé's, Frazer's, Summers', Rhodes', Waller's and mine, but I felt that Crowley made it sound nice and creepy. I haven't read any of Crowley's other short fiction, but I have a couple of books of his short stories that'll get reviewed on here someday.
While researching the Mass of Saint Sécaire, I saw that there was a radio play recorded in 1974 that was based around this terrible ritual. It was part of CBS's Mystery Theater series, and it was called The Secret Doctrine. Thankfully, somebody has posted every episode of this series online (complete with advertisements from the early 70s). I was so happy to be able to listen to this. Again, if you know about the Mass, this story is very straightforward. Unrequited love, frustration, blasphemous ritual, death… This story is perhaps the most complete fictional account of the mass – it includes the sinner's repentance and penance. There was a brief mention of Eliphas Levi, and the play seems to take its name from Helena Blavatsky's 1888 theosophical opus. The writer here seems to have had a genuine interest in the occult. I was also intrigued to see William Johnstone on the cast list for this show. (He plays Father Giles.) A decade after this radio drama was recorded, Johnstone would go on to write a bunch of insane horror novels about Satanists – I just finished his The Nursery a couple of days ago. I can honestly say that it was one of the most mental books I've ever read.
Just some of the works I had to reference for this post.
Of course, there is no Saint Sécaire. There are 3 Saint Sacerdos, 2 Saint Securus, a Saint Sacer, a Saint Sektar and a Saint Sagar. A few of these boys were French too, so the name Saint Sécaire probably sounded legitimate to the Gascony peasants from whom Bladé heard the legend. Also, I have read several places online that Sécaire probably comes from the French word 'sécher' which means to dry. If you wanted to imagine a corresponding creepy name for a Saint in English, you could go with Saint Withers. I think that works pretty well. I wouldn't want one of my enemies saying the Mass of Saint Withers against me.
Back in November 2001, in an article in Fortean Times titled Satan in Suburbia, Gareth J. Medway suggested that the Mass of Saint Sécaire was fictional. (Meday also claimed that the original source for the story of the Mass was Bladé's Contes Populaires de La Gascogne, but this is not quite true. Contes Populaires was published in 1895; Quatorze Superstitions had been published in 1883. The passages in these books about the Mass are identical though, so the point that Medway was making in his article still rings true.) Bladé was a collector of folklore and fairy tales, and he never presented his account of the Mass of Saint Sécaire as history. Russell Hope Robbin's Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology states that "The so-called mortuary mass of St. Sécaire in Basque-speaking territories and the mass of the Holy Ghost in Normandy belong to folklore or anthropology, but not to witchcraft." Was the Mass of Saint Sécaire ever a real thing? I really doubt it, but let's be honest, it makes for a damn cool story. In the aforementioned article by Medway, he points out that later occult authors went on to use parts of the description of this terrible ritual in their descriptions of more general Black Masses, and from what I have read, it has since become a basis for modern black magic ceremonies. I've presented three pieces of fiction based on this blasphemous rite, and I'd love to know if there's any more out there.
If you're interested in other folk tales that came to be accepted as elements of occult history, I recommend that you check back soon. I've got a post on Gilles De Rais lined up for next week.
dukederichleau	black magic, folklore, horror, occult, satanism	2 Comments June 30, 2019
The Dark Arts of Tarantula
The Dark Arts of Tarantula – Tarantula
MolochSorcery – 2010
Do the people who write this crap believe in it themselves, or is it just a transparent attempt to take money from simpletons?
This 59 page, poorly formatted piece of garbage might be a contender for the worst drivel I've ever reviewed. This is seriously bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.
The physical book is hideous. This looks and reads like like a half-assed high-school project. The cover is ridiculous, and the text inside is an absolute mess. I thought that this was a result of the book being digitalized (as in book to .doc), but on closer inspection, the PDF copy I was reading was actually a scan (as in book to jpg). If I had paid the cost price of 25 dollars for a hard copy of this piece of utter shit, I would hang myself out of shame.
The lad who wrote this nonsense claims that he is able to put the spirits of demons into Dungeons and Dragons figurines. According to him, he keeps these little plastic toys in fancy boxes and feeds them his own cum in return for magical favours. I'm not making this up.
This is the sigil that Tarantula created for his demon. I didn't edit this.
He claims that a member of his occult order ended up having his neck broken by some of these spirits because he wouldn't feed them enough of his cum. The lad's friends only found out that demons did it because they were able to chat with his spirit after he died.
Towards the end of the book, the author describes his experience of being bitten by a huge spider and soon thereafter meeting a spiderheaded woman in a crystal castle. The woman's husband shows up later using a pair of crabs as jet-skis and gives the narrator the power to speak to insects.
The author claims that he has been involved with an occult order for more than 30 years, so it can be assumed that he is an adult. It's not surprising that he uses a pseudonym.
I again pose the question: do these authors actually believe their own rubbish? There's no coherence or sense to any of this crap. The stuff in this book is so childish that the only adults capable of believing it are the kind that need to have their nappy changed three times a day.
dukederichleau	black magic, grimoires, occult	Leave a comment November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books – Owen Davies
Oxford University Press – 2009
Normally, when I review an occult book or a book on occult books, I spend most of the review criticizing the book's claims and/or the author. Grimoires by Owen Davies is a no bullshit history of magical books, and thankfully, I don't have much to criticize. This book was clearly very well researched, and it never gets bogged down in speculations on the efficacy of the books its discussing. This is an academic work, but don't let that scare you. The actual history of grimoires is almost as interesting as the ridiculous back stories that these books so often include.
I've read and researched a few of the books discussed in here (The Lesser Key of Solomon, The Grand Grimoire, the Abramelin text, the Faustian Grimoires, the Necronomicon, the Satanic Bible) so some of this was revision for me, but there's also a tonne of stuff that I had never heard of. I added a few books to my to-read list while reading this.
I thought I'd have way more to say about this one, but I don't. It's pretty good though. I'm quite sure I'll be referencing my copy again in the future. If you want to read a book about the history of books of magic, this is yer only man.
dukederichleau	black magic, grimoires, occult, witchcraft	2 Comments June 10, 2018
Black Easter – James Blish
Equinox/Avon Books – 1977 (First published 1968)
This is definitely one of the better novels about black magic that I have read. The particular nature of this story renders it difficult to discuss without giving away some fairly crucial plot details, so if you're like me and like to know as little as possible about a book before reading it, maybe you should come back to this review after reading the book itself. If you were hoping that this review would help you decide whether or not to read the book, know that I loved it. If you have any interest in the other books that I've reviewed on here, you'll probably enjoy this one.
Spoilers start here:
The plot of this novel could be charted with a single ascending line. There is no falling action, denouement or resolution; it ends with the climax, and a rather climactic climax it is too. I like when books are gutsy enough to have brutal endings (unless they're love stories), and finishing off with the ultimate victory of evil over good as brutal as it gets. I was expecting the priest to do something to thwart Baines and Ware, but I was delighted that he didn't.
The ending was both shocking and abrupt, and for the first time that I can remember, I wanted to reread a book as soon as I had finished it. There is a sequel though, The Day after Judgement, so I'm going to wait till I get my hands on that before I reread Black Easter. To be honest, I was so happy with the ending that I am a bit worried that the second part of the story will ruin the first. I don't want the characters to get a chance to fix things.
The final revelation of Black Easter, the claim that God is dead, is particularly chilling given the nature and timing of his death. He has died at a time when Earth is infested with demons, demons that have hitherto been under the guidance of ceremonial magicians using the dead God's names as their instrument of control. By creating this scenario, Blish calls into question the inherent conflict of ceremonial magic as noted by A.E. Waite. Black magicians using grimoires such as the Lesser Key of Solomon and the Grand Grimoire, both of which are alluded to in Black Easter, need to ask God for his help in controlling the demons they conjure. Why would a loving God help an individual who was intent on massive acts of terror, and, in this case, why would an all knowing God accommodate his own destruction? Could it be that God is so upset with his creations that he wants to die? There's a depressing thought.
While Black Easter and The Day after Judgement make up one larger work, that combined work (sometimes called The Devil's Day) makes up a single part of Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy. The other books in this thematic trilogy are A Case of Conscience and Doctor Mirablis. I have a copy of Doctor Mirablis on my shelf, and I'm planning on picking up the other two books soon. It's been quite a while since I finished a book and wanted to read more from the same author.
Part of the appeal of Blish's writing, and I've already alluded to this, is his attention to accuracy. While this is a fantasy novel, much of its content comes from real grimoires. Blish addresses this in a note at the beginning of his book; he states, "All of the books mentioned in the text actually exist; there are no "Necronomicons" or other such invented works". Despite this, he later quotes from The Book of the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup, a fabled tome, similar to the Necronomicon in that the first references to it appeared in works of fiction, two novels Talbot Mundy. (This wasn't the only time that elements of Mundy's work managed to will themselves out of the confines of fiction.) On top of all this, there are those who say that Theron Ware, the central character of Black Easter, is based on Aleister Crowley. Ware certainly resembles the kind of person I'd imagine Crowley to have been, but I had read of this comparison before reading the novel, so I can't be sure how much of the similarity was legitimate and how much of it was projected by my expectations.
Like I said, I'm planning to read the sequel, so I'll doubtlessly come back to this book. In the meantime, make sure you eat loads of chocolate for the celebration of Christ's resurrection.
dukederichleau	black magic, demonology, occult, satanism	1 Comment March 30, 2018
How now, you secret, black and midnight hags? The Demonology of King James I
The Demonology of King James I – Edited by Donald Tyson
Llewellyn Worldwide – 2011 (Originally published 1597)
King James (yes, the Bible lad) was a dirty cunt. Not only was he the British monarch responsible for the plantation of Ulster, he was also an insane person who thought that the devil was on a personal vendetta against him. His ludicrous beliefs led to changes in the anti-witchcraft laws of his day, and these changes were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.
It all started when the boat that was carrying his fifteen year old Danish bride to England was caught in a storm and forced to stop off in Norway. He decided to head over there himself to escort her home, but along the way he also encountered shitty weather. After meeting his child wife in Norway, the couple headed back to Denmark, where James heard tell that two witches had confessed to causing the storms that had hindered him so.
When he got back to Scotland, he heard stories about local witches that had originated in the confessions of a woman named Gillis Duncan. Gillis was a maid who had been spotted leaving her master's house during the middle of the night. The master of the house was upset by this and he took it upon himself to torture poor Gillis until she admitted that she was a witch. Her confessions implicated dozens of others, and this led to the North Berwick Witch Trials that were recounted in the 1591 pamphlet titled Newes from Scotland.
6 years later, James wrote his Daemonologie (or Demonology). It's a treatise in the form of a Socratic dialogue on the existence of witchcraft, and, in truth, it's very boring. James firmly believed in the existence and absolute guilt of witches, and while he was certainly well read, his reasoning is tedious, flawed and often ridiculous. The text is filled with all of the Biblical references and victim shaming that you'd expect from a witch hunting manual. James believed that God would not allow innocent people to be punished for witchcraft, so it was better to accuse too many than too few. Take a moment there to think about how horrible and dangerous that idea is… All together, Jimmy comes across as an arrogant, know-it-all, dickhead, and reading this text was a pain in the neck.
That being said, this edition of the work, translated, compiled, edited and introduced by Donald Tyson is really nice. It includes both the original and modernized versions of Demonology and Newes from Scotland, and the annotations are very comprehensive. I've seen other, fancy hardback editions of Daemonologie, but this is definitely the one I would recommend for anyone who actually intends to read and comprehend the text. I'm planning on reading more of Tyson's work in the near future.
I'd like to think that this won't have been the first story of witches fucking over the king of Scotland that my readers have encountered. James had been King of Scotland since 1567, but he was coronated King of England in 1603. It was three years after this that Macbeth was first performed. James was supposedly a patron of Shakespeare, and some people believe that Shakespeare actually wrote Macbeth for King James. James apparently believed that he was a descendant of Banquo, and although Banquo meets with a grisly end, you'll remember that his descendants ascended the throne and ruled for generations.
When it comes to the history of horror fiction, I don't think too much attention can be paid to Macbeth. It's filled with decrepit castles, frightening visions, witches, ghosts, demonic apparitions, murder and evil. Also, it's difficult for the modern reader to imagine just how scary this play would have been to an audience of people who were completely convinced in the existence and power of witches. It's literally my job to babble on about Shakespeare, and because I don't yet get paid for writing this blog, I'll hold off from saying much more about him for now.
I expected my life to calm down a bit after Christmas, but I feel like I'm busier than ever now. Hopefully I'll get a few more posts out soon.
dukederichleau	black magic, demonology, horror, witchcraft	2 Comments January 18, 2018 October 12, 2019
The Peculiar Legends of the Red Book of Appin
A few weeks ago, I wrote a review in which I claimed that all of the grimoires that I have thus read have been a little disappointing. The book in question, Liber Falxifer, had a good atmosphere to it, but while the ritual procedures were generally spooky enough, the end goals of the rituals themselves were just a little too similar to what I've seen before. In response to this complaint, V.K. Jehannum, infamous demonolater and black magician, kindly suggested that I check out a mysterious little book called The Red Book of Appin.
This "book" is, as far as I know, exclusively available in pdf form. I did a bit of research on it before reading, and the earliest mention I found of this specific text comes from 2003. However, a mysterious book titled 'The Red Book of Appin' has been referenced in many works over the last 150+ years.
I decided to do a little research.
Popular Tales of the West Highlands Volume II [1860] by J. F. Campbell
The first written mention of the Red Book of Appin can be found in what is basically a footnote to a story in J.F. Campell's collection of Scottish folktales. The stories in this book were orally collected from Scottish peasants and the likes by the author and his accomplices during the mid-nineteenth century. Part XXX, The Two Shepherds, is the story of a lad getting assaulted by a very suspicious individual when making his way home one night. It is followed by another, very similar story, and it is in this tale, as told by "an old carter named John in Ardkinglas to Hector Urquhart, a friend of Campbell's, in 1860, that the Red Book of Appin is first mentioned. The story goes a little something like this:
A man in Appin, a village in Scotland, adopted an orphan boy, and when this kid was old enough, he became a shepherd. One day, when he was out herding sheep, a mysterious stranger approached the boy and offered him a better job. The stranger told the kid that he'd make lots of money in his service; all he had to do was sign his name in the stranger's little red book. The kid was interested, but he said that he'd have to talk it over with his adoptive father first. The stranger didn't like this idea and tried to convince him to agree there and then. The kid was having none of it, so they arranged to meet up the next day after he had talked things through at home.
That night, the kid tells his dad what had happened, and this dad congratulates him for acting sensibly. He tells the kid to meet up with the stranger on the following evening, and he gives him instructions on how to make a protective circle around himself with the point of a sword so the stranger can't touch him. (Note that this guy already seems to have some knowledge of folk magic.) He instructs the kid to accept and steal the book from the stranger only when he's safely within the circle and to avoid signing it at all costs.
The kid manages to pull it off, much to the dismay of the stranger, who, at this stage, by transforming himself into many likenesses and blowing fire and brimstone, has cast off any doubts over his true identity. The kid waits till morning when the Devil disappears and then takes the book home to his dad.
(I'm by no means an expert on Gaelic mythology, but I have encountered similar stories of Scottish and Irish folk tricking the Devil (Divil). He seems to be a bit of an idiot when he's in those parts.)
Urquhart notes that he had heard many tales of the Book of Appin from old people but that this particular story was the best. I'm sure that he chose the word "best" to suggest that this story was the most entertaining rather than the most accurate.
Apparently, Campell provided other origin tales for the Red Book of Appin (and other red books), but I haven't been able to find their sources online. There's an article by Hugh Cheape that gives these different stories and other information on the book. From both the quantity of accounts and their banality, it seems quite likely that there was an actual man in Appin who had a red book. Most of the stories are about villagers asking this man for advice when their cattle were sick. The actual Red Book was almost definitely just a collection of folk medicine recipes. These stories are too boring to presume that somebody made them up.
Ok, there you have it. The actual Red Book of Appin was a book of cow medicine.
What's this then? It looks fancy. This, my friends, is an 1863 book called The Red book of Appin : a story of the Middle Ages, with Other Hermetic Stories and Allegorical Tales by Ethan Allen Hitchcock. It's a book in which the author takes folk tales and completely over-analyzes them.
It gives the account from Campell's book, word for word, and then it goes into a bizarre analysis in which the author compares elements of the story with elements of the Bible. I gave up reading it after he says that the orphan in the story represents Melchisideck. Nothing of note here other than the fact that by 1863, the legend of the Red Book of Appin was already attracting lunatics.
Ok, so we have a quaint Scottish folktale and some historical traces of a curious little book about healing cows. Didn't I start this post off discussing ultra-violent black magic?
Enter Montague Summers.
Montague Summers, a man infamous for his anachronistic fear of black magic, includes the exact same paragraph on the book of Appin in both his History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 1926 (Chapter 3, p.86) and his Popular History of Witchcraft, 1937 (Chapter 2, p.76). It reads:
Such a volume was the Red Book of Appin known to have actually been in existence a hundred years ago. Tradition said it was stolen from the Devil by a trick. It was in manuscript, and contained a large number of magic runes and incantations for the cure of cattle diseases, the increase of flocks, the fertility of fields. This document, which must be of immense importance and interest, when last heard of was (I believe) in the possession of the now-extinct Stewarts of Invernahyle. This strange volume, so the story ran, conferred dark powers on the owner, who knew what inquiry would be made ere the question was poised ; and the tome was so confected with occult arts that he who read it must wear a circlet of iron around his brow as he turned those mystic pages.
The only part of what Monty wrote that didn't come directly from the account in Campbell's book is the line about the iron circlet, but the chapter in Campbell's book that mentions the Red Book does specifically discuss the notion that "supernatural beings cannot withstand the power of iron". I think it safe to assume that Campbell was Summers' direct source for this paragraph.
Ok, so Summer's paragraph doesn't really add anything to what we already knew. However, I have little doubt that it was its mention in the works of Montague Summers that brought The Red Book of Appin to the attention of modern occultists.
Somewhere along the way, around 2003 it seems, somebody decided to write (or maybe just translate) a grimoire, but they knew that nobody would pay attention to it unless it had a cool name. On reading about the long-lost, mysterious Red Book of Appin in the works of Summers (or maybe one of Summers' fans), the author/translator realized that his work would be a whole lot more mysterious (and hence popular with occultists) if it purported to be a resurfacing of that long lost work.
The Red Book of Appin – Translated by Scarabaeus
Year of composition and publication unknown
So here we go, the dodgiest book of black magic available for free download.
This grimoire supposedly contains the teachings of Vlad Tepes. That's right; Vlad the Impaler is supposed to have dictated this malarky to a monk named Kirill. The text claims that "the devil-worshipping of the great romanian general is an unquestionable fact, which no serious black adept can deny." This is a bit odd considering that we're speaking of a (V)lad who once attacked the Ottoman Empire "for the preservation of Christianity and the strengthening of the Catholic faith".
Authorship aside, what the Hell does a grimoire supposedly written by Count Dracula have to do with the Scottish Red Book of Appin that we've been talking about? Well, as it turns out, nothing at all; this grimoire is named after "Joseph Appin", the English merchant who supposedly once owned the manuscript. The fact that the book was red is just another coincidence. Indeed, the only part of the pdf that's actually red is the Times New Roman heading on the first page.
One of the book's high quality illustrations.
This is definitely not the actual Red Book of Appin, but I suppose it could be a translation of a genuine grimoire to which the translator attached a name for which he knew there would be a market. Indeed there are signs that this is a translation. It reads a lot like the homework of a foreign student who has used Google Translate to change their writing into English. The grammar, spelling and punctuation are all absolutely horrible. I'll be honest here, even if this is a translation, it's a translation of absolute garbage. I find it very fitting that translator's pseudonym literally means dung beetle.
There's two main sections to the text. The first is a fairly standard list of demons, the same kind of thing that you find in the Goetia and the Grand Grimoire. The next section is on different rituals. These are absurd. The most entertaining was the one in which the wizard constructs a bell with a human corpse as the dingy bit in the middle. I can't remember what this was supposed to achieve, but it was pretty funny. Most, if not all, of these rituals involve murderous sacrifices, including the killing of babies. I know that I complained that other grimoires weren't nasty enough, but I found this pretty tasteless. There's no atmosphere or cleverness here; it's the kind of thing a teenage death metal fan would write. A load of shit.
Doodles from a boring math class or the demonic seals of "Superior Creatures"?
There is another book, The True Red Book of Appin, written by Tarl Warwick, but this is an admitted fiction. This lad noticed the hullaballoo that this text was causing online and decided that he could write a much better version. Fair play to him. I haven't read his book, but I am quite sure it's more entertaining than the heap of trash by Scarabaeus.
So there you go, the legends of the Red Book of Appin. I somehow doubt that the original text, if it were ever to be found, would be as entertaining as the tales that have told about it.
dukederichleau	black magic, grimoires, satanism, witchcraft	6 Comments December 3, 2017
Death Worship and Current 218
Liber Falxifer: The Book of the Left Handed Reaper – N.A-A. 218
Ixaxaar – 2008
While maybe not quite as old as they claim to be, grimoires such the Grand Grimoire, The Goetia, the Book of AbraMelin and Die Faustbücher have all established their places within the canon of Western Occultism. These texts are referenced in many of the other books that I read, and I read them in turn to help me understand those other books. Liber Falxifer, however, was first printed in 2008, and it has yet to be republished as a Dover Occult paperback. With the internet, anyone can create and publish their own grimoire, so why did I choose to read this one?
The cover is really fucking cool, and the title has a nice ring to it. However, what really drew me to this book were the prices that I saw people paying for it online. You'll be lucky if you can find a copy of this thing for less than $500. I would never spend that much on a book, but I was intrigued as to why others would. When a friend offered to lend me their copy of Liber Falxifer, I jumped at the chance to see what all the fuss was about. (I'm actually working on a separate post about collecting occult books in which I'll further elaborate on the potentially ludicrous cost of this hobby.)
The Illustrations, sigils and front cover of this book were designed by Soror Sagax. 218.
Liber Falxifer is about the Cult of the Dead and the worship of the Left-handed Skeleton Lord of Death. The first part of the book describes the origins cult of this Señor La Muerte. I presumed this was all bullshit, but I looked it up and it's a real thing in parts of South America; people there do actually pray to a Saint of death. The book claims that there is an esoteric side to the worship of this Saint that is not publicly discussed or recognized, and it's this side of things that it focuses on: how to kill your neighbour, how to control people, all of that good stuff…
Links are then drawn between this Saint of Death and Qayin (Cain) of Bible fame. It gets into apocryphal interpretations of the Genesis story and ends up with a really juicy Satanic form of Gnosticism. I absolutely loved this part of the book.
The last few chapters are on the actual practice of Black Magic. These parts, though occasionally rather sinister, were not different enough to what I've seen before to hold my interest. I wasn't reading this as a practicing magician, so this bit was bound to be wasted on me.
Sigil from the cover of the book.
There's a poem at the very beginning of the book that struck me as very familiar, and some of the phrases in the different summonings and the way in which they were ordered made me think of the lyrics on Dissection's Reinkaos album. While ruminating on that record, I recalled that the first song is called Nexion 218. Was it a coincadence that the author of this book is given as N.A-A. 218? Ixaxaar.com, the publisher's website states that this book was written by the Magister of the Temple of the Black Light, the same order that Jon Nödtveidt, singer of Dissection, belonged to. This Magister of the Temple of the Black Light (formerly the Misanthropic Luciferian Order) also went by the name of Frater Nemidial, and what do you know, Frater Nemidial gets a writing credit on Dissection's Reinkaos album.
For those of you who don't know, Jon Nödtveidt, the singer and guitarist in Dissection ended up shooting himself in the head during a Satanic ritual. He had previously spent 8 years in prison for murder. Reinkaos, his final album, is maligned by many fans of the band because it sounds so different from their earlier releases, but I've always had a soft spot for it.
Anyways, back to Liber Falxifer. It's definitely a more enjoyable read than other grimoires I've slogged through. I really liked the way that it tied Gnosticism, Satanism and the cult of Death together; I love that occulty synthesis stuff. Also, this one is pretty dark. It doesn't shy away from blood rituals and graveyard desecration. I mean, I'm not going to go out and do that stuff myself, but I like the idea that books like this exist. My interest in Satanism and Black Magic is largely fueled by my love of heavy metal, and while I was surprised that I was able to recognise the author by his turn of phrase, I was not surprised that the individual who wrote this was somehow involved in heavy metal.
As mentioned before, I am not a practicing magician, so I have nothing to say on the book's efficacy. I can really only discuss whether or not I enjoyed reading it. When I read grimoires, I like imagining that I'm a character in a tale by Clark Ashton Smith or Lovecraft who has come across some long forgotten book of heinous magic, and as far as grimoires go, this one was quite entertaining. The only way I would have enjoyed Liber Falxifer more would have been if it was more violent. I liked how it touched on blood sacrifices, but I would have enjoyed some brutal torture or some mass killings thrown into the mix. Again, I stress that I read these things as if they were fiction; I really don't want that kind of thing to happen in the real world. I suppose there's only so much you can get away with if you're putting out a book that is going to be taken seriously.
So overall, this book was enjoyable enough, but it fell just short of what I want from a Satanic Grimoire. I feel a bit like Bono. Does my ideal Grimoire exist? I've thought of writing one myself, one that was completely over the top in terms of sinister violence and evil, but as much fun as that would be, I'd be terrified that some loon might get their hands on it and take it seriously. There's two more books in the Falxifer series, and while I sure as Hell won't be buying them, I'll consider reading them if they ever come my way.
dukederichleau	black magic, grimoires, satanism	2 Comments November 13, 2017 April 7, 2018
Duke De Richleau's Nocturnal Revelries
An Interview with Garrett Boatman, Author of Stage Fright
Kill for Satan – Bryan Smith
My Work Is Not Yet Done – Thomas Ligotti
2019, The Year in Review
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson


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FRANKLYN is the debut feature from British writer-director Gerald McMorrow. It's a movie about the delayed impact of emotional trauma on three people living in contemporary London - a suicidal video artist (Eva Green); a jilted lover (Sam Riley) and an Iraqi war vet. The first half of the movie shows the three characters failing to cling to reality and plays their fantasy worlds as reality, not least in a gothic "Meanwhile City" where a Ministry sanctions a multitude of religious cults and a masked vigilante rails against who knows what.
The scenes in the real world have a certain satisfaction insofar as they are well-acted by a strong cast and pack an emotional punch. But I feel that McMorrow has failed to tie together the real and fantasy strands of his film. Despite the portentious voiceover from Ryan Philippe's vigilante, we are given precious little information. At first, I thought this was being the movie was baiting the audience and would reveal a richness of interlocking later on. Actually, when we figure out what's happening, which isn't hard to do, it's all a bit thin and bathetic.
So, I have to say that FRANKLYN was a rather disappointing and unsatisfying experience - setting up a complex interlocking world but failing to deliver. On the positive side, I loved the way McMorrow placed and moved his camera and I definitely liked the GORMENGHAST meets BEETLEJUICE fantasy world production design. But, in the final analysis, the lack of narrative coherence (and the similarity of the vigilante outfit to Rorschach) let the movie down.
FRANKLYN played London 2008 and opens in the UK on January 30th 2009.


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6 parks worth visiting in Medellín, Colombia
Parque de las Esculturas del Cerro Nutibara. (Photo by Clay Duda)
Nestled between the sloping hillsides of Valle de Aburrá (Aburrá Valley) in central Colombia, Medellín is a breathtakingly gorgeous and boisterous city. Home of the Paisa, as people from the region are known, they're said to be Colombia's proudest residents — something we learned fresh of the plane when I asked our cab driver where he was from. "!Soy Piasa!" he said, puffing out his chest with a big grin.
Colombia's second largest city, there's something for everyone crammed into the narrow valley, barrios trailing up it's steep-sloping fringes. From nightlife in Zona Rosa and Poblado, a touristy neighborhood on the southside, to the ultra-modern shopping malls scattered throughout the city, you'll be hard-pressed not to find whatever you set out for.
But sandwiched between it's bustling thoroughfares, and nestled in the tree-covered hillsides nearby, Medellín is also home to a laundry list of large parks, natural areas, and green space, making it possible to easily escape the torrent citylife below with just a short walk or ride on the Metro Cable (sky bucket transit).
Here are some of the best parks to visit in Medellin, Colombia:
El Parque Regional Ecoturístico Arví. (Photo by Clay Duda)
1) Arví Park (El Parque Regional Ecoturístico Arví)
El Parque Regional Ecoturístico Arví is an ecotourism park in the mountains east of Valle de Aburrá near Medellín. The nearly 40,000-acre parks incorporates the municipalities, including Antioquia, Envigado, Bello, and Copacabana.
In all there are 54 miles of walking trails and a pre-Hispanic archeological site. The park is known for it's flora, particularly wildflowers, and cooler temperatures than the valley floor below. Tours are available in Spanish, and an open air food court is adjacent to the metro station. The Piedras Blancas Ecological Hotel is located nearby.
While outside the city, getting to Parque Arví is quite easy thanks to Medellín's extensive metro system — the only one of its kind in Colombia. Take the train to Acevedo station, then transfer to MetroCable (sky bucket transit) Line K. Follow it to the end of the line on one metro ticket, transferring to a separate MetroCable at Santa Domingo ($4,850 COP) for the 20-minute sky lift to Arví and gorgeous views of the city below.
Parque de los Pies Descalzos. (Photo by Clay Duda)
2) Bare Foot Park (Parque de los Pies Descalzos)
This zen-inspired central park is a favorite among tourists, locals, and business people during the week. Some of the calming nature of Parque de los Pies Descalzos may be lost to the sounds of nearby motorists zipping by on four-laned roadways, but it's close proximity and peaceful landscaping make it an must-see for most visitors.
True to it's name, Bare Foot Park encourages its visitors to ditch their zapatos and wiggle toes in the sand or soak in one of the pools. The park features a bamboo garden with walking paths, a sandy area, waterfall sculpture, and numerous sculptures. Opened in 2000, the park was designed by architect Felipe Uribe de Bedout. The Interactive Museum EPM is also part of the park.
The park is in close proximity and easy to find from two center Metro stations. From Cicernos station, head south, taking the foot bridge across Avenida San Juan to the park's entrance. From Alpujarra station, walk north two blocks to Avenida San Juan, turning left until you see the foot bridge overhead. The park's entrance will be to your left.
Parque Norte. (Photo by Virginia/Flickr)
3) North Park (Parque Norte)
Situated in the northern center city (go figure), Parque Norte is a 60,000-acre themed park was completed overhauled less than a decade ago. It's broken up into five themed plazas (or "plazoletas"): expedition, fantasy, adventure, events, and extreme. All of which feature different attractions, including some theme park-style rides, flanked by expansive green space that offers an oasis in the heart of the city.
One of its biggest advantages, aside from being big itself, is its proximity to the metro line and other noteworthy nearby attractions. Those include the Botanical Garden of Medellín (Jardín Botánico de Medellín Joaquín Antonio Uribe) and the Medellín Planetarium (El Planetario de Medellín).
To get there, take the Metro train to the Universidad station and head east towards the trees.
Pueblito Paisa in Parque de las Esculturas del Cerro Nutibara. (Photo by Clay Duda)
4) Nutibara Sculpture Park & Pueblito Paisa (Parque de las Esculturas del Cerro Nutibara)
Making for a nice mountains hike without ever leaving the city, Nutibara Sculpture Park hides along it's tree-lined walking paths a series of mostly abstract sculptures. The 80-meter-tall hill let's you get in a workout and take in some beautiful city views and artwork, especially around dusk (see photo at top of this article).
The hill is said to be the geographic center of Aburrá Valley and one of the few ecosystems preserved within the city. At it's top sits Pueblito Paisa, a replica of a typical turn of the century Paisa township, this one built in the 1970s with several small eateries and venders. It's also home to the "Museo de Cuidad," the City Museum.
To get there, head west from the Exposiciones Metro station. Look for the large hill covered in trees and signs for Pueblito Piasa. From the south entrance, you'll have to walk a long, steep staircase to reach the top. But it's worth the effort.
El Parque Ecoturístico El Salado. (Photo by ChuliPichuli/Flickr)
5) El Salado Ecological Park (El Parque Ecoturístico El Salado)
One of the largest ecological parks in the Antioquia, El Salado boasts an assortment of outdoor recreation and adventure offerings. There are canopy tours, a winding network of trails, an adventure course, and a rock wall. Most of the attractions require a small cover, which ranges from $1,000-$7,000 COP (about $0.30-$2.25 USD).
The park is not in Medellín proper, but located in the hills in the small town on Envigado just to the southeast of the city. Fortunately, like most other attractions in this city, it's connected by the Metro system. Take the train south to Envigado, then catch a taxi to the park. Most taxis in this part of Colombia are metered, so no need to haggle the rates like on the Caribbean Coast.
Parque Poblado. (Photo by elBigo/Flickr)
6) Poblado Park (Parque Poblado)
Less of a park and more of a plaza, Poblado Park is a great stop off for an evening of people watching. Located near Medellín's "Zona Rosa," as the nightlife district is called, Poblado is a hot spot for tourists, locals, and just about anyone looking for a good time.
Grab a beer and kick back on the brick steps surrounding the park, strike up a conversation, or just soak up the scenery before heading out for a night on the town. This district plays hosts to a number of hostels and hotels, and you're likely to see more "gringos" here than anywhere else in town — for good or ill.
Take the Metro to Pablado station, following Calle 10 several blocks east to the plaza.
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The 1897 storyline is coming to a close this week, and once again Dark Shadows is tying up a time trip by murdering everybody who isn't nailed down. Do you remember how they killed everybody at the end of 1795, and then went back eight months later because they realized they hadn't killed Natalie? Well, they're not going to make that mistake again.
This scorched-earth approach is hard on everyone, but it's especially tough for the folks at Big Finish, who watch these episodes, and all they can see is the lights going out on one spinoff after another. Big Finish has been producing new Dark Shadows audio plays for the last ten years, and every character that gets exterminated is just money taken out of their pockets.
I mean, this is a production company that's made twelve box sets worth of audio stories about Jago and Litefoot, two secondary characters from a six-episode Doctor Who story made in 1977. Now, I don't think they would have squeezed that much juice out of The Adventures of Evan Hanley and His Assassin Associate Aristede, but I'm sure they would have appreciated the opportunity to try.
There is a God of Fire and Rage.
Thousands of millions of burning spirits line the bone-charred stairs, kicking and scratching. Every unrepentant soul in Hell fights for the chance to return to the surface world, and drench the Earth in warm, rich blood.
It is here now. The children call it Quentin.
It's a tough job, don't let anyone tell you different. It must be one of the toughest jobs in television — writing the script for a daily soap opera. It's not the long-term planning, which has got to be kind of fun. The brutal part is the scene breakdown.
The problem goes like this: We have a plot point to establish, and it requires these three characters to be on this set, in this kind of mood. Go make that happen. And sometimes there's just no logical reason why that particular group of people would even be talking to each other. This is why you don't see a lot of jolly soap opera writers.
Of course, on some days, you figure out a clever twist that solves the problem, and the world is full of sunshine, and that's a good day. Gordon Russell is not having a good day.


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Review: Colour Blind (a mini-series) Part 1
By Dinah Freeman - August 25, 2012
Detailed SPOILERS below... beware!!
This mini-series is a part of The Catherine Cookson Anthology. I really enjoyed part one of this mini-series. Everything about the costumes and locale was perfectly period. I was never once reminded that I was watching a movie. It felt real. Every moment of it. While there are only 2 Black characters in this miniseries they are very important characters. They turn the McQueens family upside down. While the majority of the cast is not of the African Diaspora, there are major characters that are. So here we go!
The movie starts in 1915. It is set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. From the very beginning the tone is set. The costumes and music match the period right on. We meet the McQueens. They receive a letter from Bridgett saying that she has married a sailor named Mr. Patterson. Little do they know Mr. Patterson is African.
Her family isn't happy but she stands by her man. When her brother says James isn't the best thing for her, she replies, "He is to me. I mean it. We're family now!" They are even more upset when they find out James isn't Catholic. They are forced into another wedding. A Catholic wedding. Because they won't recognize their previous wedding as legal.
James foreshadows the future when he tells Bridgett to watch out for her brother, Matt. When Matt finds out Bridgett is pregnant he forces a bottle of alcohol down her throat in an attempt to kill the baby. This act shows just how much hate he holds in his heart.
His plan fails. Bridgett has the baby who is baptized Rosa Angela.
James is constantly at sea because no one will give him a job where they live. Lonely Bridgett copes with alcohol. However, she continues to lovingly care for her daughter.
When James comes back after the war him and Matt get into a fight. Thinking Matt is dead he runs away with Rose Angela in tow. A hunting party goes searching for him. Tony finds him and promises to look after Rose Angela as if she were his own. James promises to come back.
Six years later in 1924 we meet Rose Angela as a little girl in school. She is bullied by her teacher and classmates. But like her mother, she remains strong. These strength is something else I really loved. But Bridgett and Rose Angela have every reason to fall apart but they don't they stay strong.
Part 1 of this mini-series ends with Bridgett telling her daughter, "I won't tell you that life will be easy. But if we're gonna get through it. Don't you listen to what other people say. You just do what's right."
We are left with Tony (or Uncle Tony as Rose calls him) telling Rose Angela about what a good man her father was. He has keep his promise.
The thing I loved the most about part 1 was James. I really appreciate James Patterson's characterization. He wasn't just a tool the writers used. He was a fully fleshed out character. We learn of his background. He is from Freetown, Sierra Leone raised by a missionary that came there. Do you see those details!? The writer could have easily said James was from Africa and that could have been that. But she dug deeper than the African is a country fallacy and gave his home a face. He is shown with Human emotions. And while he treats Bridgett like a queen, he is in no way her doormat.
The costumes were nothing to write home about. They matched the period, but the McQueens and their neighbors are poor so there are no beautiful gowns in sight. I know I should be happy the film was realistic with the costumes but ... I just really like beautiful gowns *hangs head* ... who doesn't?
There are 2 more parts to this mini-series. If they follow the lead of part 1 then I will enjoy them both. I have high hopes! I will be posting pictures from part 1 in a separate post.
Part 1 gets 5 stars from me!
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The Swiss Cricket Association is proud to announce plans to take a Swiss National XI to Amsterdam in The Netherlands from 18th - 20th July 2012.
Arriving on Wednesday 18th July the team will compete in a Twenty20 game on Thursday 19th July followed by 40 over game the following day at the VRA cricket ground.
VRA Cricket club of Amsterdam has a rich history in the cricketing spheres within Holland and being located in Holland's largest city, it is also a melting pot of so many different cultures & nationalities.
VRA boasts having 6 players who are representing the current Netherlands side,including the captain of Holland Peter Borren. The games will take place in Amsterdam.
This tour will provide a fantastic opportunity for all the participants to experience high quality cricket and some excellent cricketing facilities. The home ground of the club hosted some of the world cup games in 1999 and is considered the best cricket ground in continental Europe.
Further details regarding this tour are available from the SCA's international match manager, Asvin Lakkaraju. Asvin will also be able to provide details of estimated costs, flights & accommodation.
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Three Pakistani sisters kill man who had made blasphemous remarks 13 years ago
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Sialkot, April 20 (Dawn): Three armed burqa-clad sisters on Wednesday shot dead a man near Sialkot after accusing him of committing blasphemy 13 years ago.
Police managed to arrest the three suspects and identified them as Amna, Afshan and Razia.
The incident took place in Nangal Mirza village, Pasrur tehsil.
According to the police, the three women went to the house of Mazhar Hussain Syed, a faith healer, and asked him to pray for them. They also asked him if his son, Fazal Abbas, had returned from abroad. When told that he had returned from Belgium, they asked if they could see him. As soon as Abbas, 45, appeared before the women, they opened fire on him with the weapons they had brought with them secretly. Abbas died on the spot.
The women raised slogans in jubilation after his death, asserting that they had finally eliminated a blasphemer.
The women, in their statement to police, alleged that Abbas had committed blasphemy in 2004, but "we couldn't kill him at the time because we were too young then".
The police confirmed that they had registered a case against Abbas in 2004 under Section 295-C (use of derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of the Holy Prophet) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Pasrur City station, but he fled abroad soon after.
The suspect had recently returned from abroad and promptly obtained pre-arrest bail from a local court.
The body was taken to the Pasrur Civil Hospital for autopsy.


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Novo Selo (Bulgaars: Ново село, "nieuw dorp") is een dorp in het noordwestelijkste deel van Bulgarije in het oblast Vidin. Het dorp ligt op de zuidelijke oever van de Donau. De plaats is het bestuurlijke centrum van de gelijknamige gemeente.

Bevolking
Op 31 december 2019 telde de gemeente Novo Selo 2.423 inwoners, waarvan 1.167 mannen en 1.256 vrouwen. Het dorp Novo Selo telde 917 inwoners, gevolgd door Vinarovo met 534 inwoners, Florentin met 273 inwoners en Jasen met 221 inwoners. De bevolking van de gemeente Novo Selo (het dorp Novo Selo inclusief de drie nabijgelegen dorpen) is sinds de jaren vijftig van de twintigste eeuw met bijna 77% afgenomen. De gemeente kampt met uiterst ongunstige demografische ontwikkelingen. In 2019 werden er in totaal 11 levendgeborenen geregistreerd, terwijl het aantal sterftegevallen met 100 overlijdens ruim negen keer hoger was.

De gemiddelde leeftijd van de bevolking is ongeveer 61 jaar oud. De mannelijke bevolking is gemiddeld 56 jaar oud en de vrouwelijke 65 jaar oud.

Etniciteit en religie
In 2011 vormden etnische Bulgaren zo'n 97% van de bevolking van de gemeente Novo Selo en 92,5% van de bevolking van het dorp Novo Selo. In het dorp Novo Selo woonden bovendien 64 Roma (±6,5%), terwijl er in het dorp Florentin een aantal Vlachen woonden. Het Bulgaars dat in gemeente Novo Selo wordt gesproken heeft veel invloeden uit Oost-Romaanse talen en uit het Servisch uit het naburige Servië.

Van de 2.979 inwoners reageerden er 2.617 op de optionele volkstelling van 2011. Zo'n 2.536 personen, oftewel 96,9% van de bevolking, waren lid van de Bulgaars-Orthodoxe Kerk. Verder waren er 64 inwoners zonder religie, 11 katholieken en 5 protestanten.

Gemeente in Bulgarije
Vidin (oblast)

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