OHHHHHHHHHH! MY ACHING HEAD! "That's no way to get ahead in life!" and other various head puns! ETC. ! Anyways, this episode, we examine the "Headless/Bornless One Ritual" as well as various other occult aspects of "headlessness" as well as a PLETHORA of some possible (some most definitely) occult decapitations. IT'S QUITE A HEADY MIX! (It's okay, I hate me too.) PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Hans Dieter Betz (Ed.): The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (1986) – For PGM V. 96–172 (The Stele of Jeu/Headless Rite).

*S.L. MacGregor Mathers: The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1898)

*Aleister Crowley: Liber Samekh (1921) – Thelemic adaptation of Headless Ritual for Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.

*Pliny the Elder & Herodotus: Natural History & Histories – Classical sources on the Akephaloi/Blemmyae.

*The Chaldean Oracles: Late 2nd-century CE Neoplatonic text on "Paternal Intellect"/"unencased" perception.

*Jericho & Göbekli Tepe Excavation Reports: Archaeological documents on Neolithic ancestor skulls/skull-suspension groves.

*Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up Jericho (1957) – Archaeological study on the Neolithic skull cult.

*Michael Harner & Janet Siskind: Anthropology studies on Jivaroan ("Shuar") head-shrinking ("tsantsas") and soul-trapping ("muisak").

*The Mabinogion & Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda: Mythology sources for living oracular severed heads of Bran the Blessed/Mímir.

*The Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim): 11th-century Arabic manual of astral magic (Book III) describing head-divination rites.

*The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic/Grimorium Verum: Medieval grimoires using skulls as acoustic amplifiers for summoned spirits.

*Palo Mayombe Traditions: Operational frameworks for: "nganga", "kiyumba" (skull), and "nfumbe" (spirit).

*Cleveland Torso Murders (1935–1938)/Thames Torso Murders (1887–1889): Police files on unsolved serial decapitations/missing heads.

*San Francisco Police Department Files (1981): Case files on the ritual homicide of Leroy Carter Jr. and Officer Sandi Gallant’s Palo Mayombe prediction.

*Adolfo Constanzo / Matamoros Cult Case (1989): Law enforcement/court records on harvesting of human remains for "nganga" cauldron.

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