DRAGON Rouge founder Thomas Karlsson has swapped occult mumbo-jumbo for a rather less mystical appointment with the Swedish prison system.   Karlsson was sentenced on 2 November 2026 to one year and three months in prison after being convicted of a grim catalogue of offences including defamation, unlawful stalking and violent resistance against police.   The court convicted him of nine violations of restraining orders, along with harassment directed at one of the defence lawyers and death threats. It is quite a collection for a man better known for demons, runes, black magic and founding one of Sweden's more colourful occult organisations.   Karlsson, born in 1972, founded Dragon Rouge in 1989 with six other occultists. The organisation describes itself as an initiatory order following the so-called Left-Hand Path and has spent decades rummaging around in Qabalah, magic, runes and other things unlikely to appear on the average parish newsletter.  Kar...

A British tarot reader is bullying YouTube into censoring a four-year-old interview on a popular esoteric blog because he is frightened of being recognised. Frater Ruptus Catenae said he was nagged into doing the interview because he wanted to help Frater TP, aka “Toby”, out. Watchers of the Dawn has seen emails from Toby asking to be interviewed at the time, when he was a psychology student.  The interview attracted a whopping 465 views over four years, which shows the level of interest.  Then, a couple of months ago, Ruptus Catenae got a snotogram from “Toby”, who was getting a little paranoid. When he did the video, he used the names Frater TP and Toby because he thought that no one could link the two.  “I went onto your podcast under the assumption of anonymity (hence the pseudonym). But this is no longer being kept and my pseudonym (Frater 'TP) is now linkable to my real name even though it was not traceable at the time.”  Toby said it was putting his personal ...

Occult writer Stephen Skinner is demanding praise and acclaim for his involvement in the publication of a book which he had nothing to do with.  Andreas Erneus' edition of Book 1 of the Summa Sacre Magic e has just been released to fairly widespread acclaim from those who like their magical books to have been kicking around in Latin for 700 years. The only issue is that Skinner has already published all five volumes of the book and is inconsiderably vexed.  Erneus has failed to mention his mighty tomes . “Although I know that in producing this book Andreas read my translation of the same work, published by me in January 2025, he does not mention it in his bibliography, nor in his text at all. This is rather dishonest from a scholarly point of view.”  Skinner moaned to his Facebook chums. He pointed out that his edition has now translated all 5 volumes of this book, not just volume 1, which is certainly of interest to his readers. Erneus seems particularly puzzled by Sk...

Occult influencer Maevius Lynn has ditched her plans to become a priestess, saying local OTO politics turned spiritual work into a nasty little power game. The occultist and YouTuber said the Order’s old rumour mill about women being pushed into the priestess role is not what hit her. “I have been blocked. My progress, I have been bullied. I have been shamed. I have not had the opportunity to be a priestess at all in my tradition, at all.” Lynn claims she was frozen out of opportunities and shut out of the admin who keeps people moving, with deadlines and paperwork somehow never reaching her. She says the sniping escalated into a smear campaign led by someone in a position of authority. Lynn said: “It got to a point where it wasn't just like little jabs at me in person and little henpecking going on. It got to the point where someone was making up lies about me to try to ruin my reputation behind my back. And what a stupid way to spend your time, really. What a childish, path...

Patrick Noone sells himself as a Celtic healer and has claimed he sees fairies on his farmland, but he ended up in Ennis Circuit Court for far darker reasons.   The 58-year-old farmer pleaded guilty when arraigned on two counts of sexual assault contrary to section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Amendment Act on 15 November 2023.   The court heard Aer Lingus cabin crew alerted the captain after a teenage girl sitting beside him reported inappropriate touching, and the Boston-bound flight was turned back to Shannon Airport.   Noone, of Curragh, Kilconnell, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, admitted sexually assaulting the then 16-year-old by rubbing and grabbing her buttocks on board the E1135 flight within the jurisdiction of the Irish state.   He also pleaded guilty to kissing her arm and rubbing her thigh during the same flight. Counsel for Noone, barrister Antoinette Simon, told the court her client is a self-employed farmer with no previous convictions a...

Italian peddlers of pricey occult courses and conferences, LaSocietà dello Zolfo (LSDZ) , are pushing an esoteric event titled L’Alba d’Occidente (“The Dawn of the West”) that gives a mystical makeover to one of Italy’s most toxic historical figures. The target of the incense-and-symbolism treatment is Gabriele d’Annunzio , a protofascist icon whose ideas and methods fed directly into Mussolini’s bloodstained regime. La Società dello Zolfo has spent years building international credibility by surrounding itself with well-known Italian and English-speaking occult figures. Names such as David Rankine, Stephen Skinner, and Christopher Warnock regularly appear in connection with the society’s activities, events, courses and social orbit. Their presence at other LSDZ gatherings gives the group street credibility and an aura of legitimacy. That international sheen now buffers an event that strips d’Annunzio of his political reality and repackages him as a poet, a Mason, a Martinist, and ...

A north London woman who posed as a faith healer to con victims out of £1m (€1.17m) to fund her extravagant lifestyle has been jailed for 10 years. Juliette D’Souza posed as a shaman for more than 12 years, tricking 11 people, telling them the money would be used as a spiritual offering to cure health problems, including terminal illnesses and infertility. The 59-year-old from Hampstead insisted the cash was a “sacrifice” and that it would be hung in the Amazon rainforest. She claimed two other shamans would perform rituals around the money before it was sent back, and their problems would be resolved. Instead, the cash went on designer handbags, luxury holidays and antique furniture. Many of D’Souza’s victims were financially ruined, with one man left “as poor as a church mouse”, the court heard. D’Souza also “remorselessly extracted” more than £200,000 (€234,000) from an elderly woman over several years. On Thursday, she was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of 23 counts of obtain...