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Death on Iona: The Mysterious Death of Norah Fornario and the Search for Netta

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According to fellow occultist Dion Fortune, the reason Netta was going to Iona was to conduct some deep healing and to study Green Ray Elementals (non-magic folk speak: Fairies). Dion Fortune was a renowned occultist at the time and knew Netta very well. Dion distanced herself from Netta, however, because she was getting too deep into things she could not understand or control. One of Netta’s only surviving writings confirms her fascination with Sharp and offers some insight into her views of the Shee and possibly what she hoped to find on Iona. Fornario, using the alias Mac Tyler, authored a review of Macleod’s best-known work, The Immortal Hour , which had recently been adapted into an opera by composer Rutland Boughton. Iona is probably best known for Saint Columba , who founded the Abby of Iona there in the sixth century. It was a place where early Christianity mixed heavily with pagan traditions and was instrumental in spreading the faith throughout the islands. However, Iona, like the Hebrides Islands, has a rich history that reaches deep into the Iron Age and is home to some of the world’s darkest folklore. The things said to have risen from the sea there would have made Lovecraft himself shudder. It is this unique history that drew Netta to Iona, undoubtedly fueled by the works of her favorite author, Fiona Macleod. Fiona Macleod was the pen name of William Sharp, a Freemason and early member of the Golden Dawn. U nder the pen name of Macleod, Sharp wrote many of his works in the Celtic Revival and Neo p aganism movements. He also wrote a great deal about the history and folklore of Iona, including his perspective on the Aos S í , the people of the mounds and comparable to faery folk . Describing this supernatural race, Sharp uses the common abbreviation of Sidhe (mounds) or Shee. In fact, his pen name Macleod may be a subtle nod to Iona, as many of the c hieftains of Clan Macleod are buried there . I ncidentally, the clan has legendary ties to faery magic. According to her death certificate, she died between 10.00pm on 17th and 1.30pm on 19th November 1929, of “exposure to the elements” or “heart failure”. She is buried in a simple grave on the island, which – according to Laura from faeryfolklorist, who took the photo I found on Strange History [linked above] – looks like this:

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On 4th July 1922, her naturalization certificate A9304 was issued, as per document HO 144/1765/431695 at the National Archives. Here, her name was listed as Marie Norah Emily Edith Fornario.In 2005, whilst living in Huddersfield, I had a rather strange phone call from a man who told me he lived in Great Horton, Bradford. This man went on to say how valuable the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram was and also mentioned a ritual involving a nine pointed star and the Rose Cross. The man then went on to talk about Aleister Crowley. He insisted that Aleister Crowley had indeed come to Bradford and that Mr Crowley himself had done ritual workings in a building on North Parade in Bradford. Miss Fonario, who arrived in Iona during the summer, disappeared on Sunday November 12. She was a woman of extraordinary character. Mrs Varney, her housekeeper at Kew, told a reporter yesterday that Miss Fonario, whose father is an Italian doctor, did not believe in doctors, and was “always curing people by telepathy.” Do the scratched up feet, bruises and possibly deeper gashes found on her body point in the direction of foul play? The fact that the same day Netta was acting erratic, scared and wanted to leave in a hurry could certainly lend some creedence to that theory. Though they were law enforcement, the Scottish police may have been chilled by the fact that the body was found next to a fairy mound. Dotted throughout the British Isles, these enchanted hills are often the remnants of Iron Age Celtic structures that have been covered by vegetation over time. Even stranger, the corpse was said to have been covered in small, unidentifiable scratches. THE HAUNTED ISLE

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The doctor who examined the body could not narrow down the time of death. Therefore, he pronounced that she could have died at any time from the 17th to the 19th when her body was found. He apparently also had trouble determining a cause of death. So he covered all the bases and settled on either “exposure to the elements” or “heart failure.” Neither of which could account for mysterious deep scratches on Netta’s body and on the bottoms of her feet. Was she running from something? I must admit it is probably 20 years or more since I last read Psychic Self-Defenceand I didn’t recall the story from there when I heard it on a podcast recently.

As Usual, My Rationalist Account

Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides which is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) from the coast of Mull. It is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) wide and 6 kilometers (4 miles) long, with a population of just under 200 people. In synopsis, The Immortal Hour tells the tale of a supernatural marriage between a human, the High King of Eire (Eochaidh), and a Shee (Etain) orchestrated by the Lord of Shadow, Dalua. Dalua, also known as the Faery Fool, or the Amadán Dubh, is “older than the gods” and imbued with strange powers of fate. An unknown compulsion brings him to a magical Shee forest where he soon meets Etain, who has also arrived at the wood seemingly by fate. Dalua touches her and erases memory, essentially making her human. He sends her to a peasant’s hut to wait for the inevitable coming of the king, Eochaidh. Eochaidh is guided by his own dreams of “immortal love,” which lead him to the forest and Dalua. Dalua brings him to Etain and their union is made.

Exposed to the Elements: A Strange 1920s Death on the

What relevance does the carved cross have? Was she trying to set up some elaborate suicide? Maybe trying to perform some occult ritual that would get her closer to the fairies she had been looking for. As many people will know, monks wrote in Latin, often producing illuminated manuscripts,with fancy lettering.

Netta Fornario In Art

I feel the time of year must also be taken into account. When she had left London it had been late August/early September, but now it was November, the nights were long and dark, the prospect of spending the entire winter on the island, with nothing to do but stalk its bracing, windswept beaches and hills, must have been daunting. Her behaviour on her last day suggests she was afraid to stay on the island, but at the same time resigned to it. Curiously, she certainly doesn’t seem to have made any coherent plans to return to her life in London. Around the end of the 8th Century AD the famous Book of Kells was produced on the island. Around this time the first Viking raids started which killed many of the monks and saw many of their treasures stolen. Iona us famously known for the creepy legends that surround the isle. These dark myths included creatures like mermaids, goddesses, and faeries. What are Faeries? Her death remains a mystery to this day. Was she murdered by people offended by her unconventional views? Was her death supernatural or merely the inevitable conclusion of untreated paranoid schizophrenia? The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario is a chilling account mixing fiction with the real events of a still controversial death, suitable for age 14+.

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