Help! I need someone to help me find a six-degrees-of-separation type link!

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It's driving me mad. I need to try and make a credible link - as many degrees of separation as it takes, as long as it's plausible - between Aleister Crowley and Herne The Hunter.

I'm finding it almost impossible, and the best I can come up with is that there are probably stags in the woods around Boleskine House.

Can anyone do better? I have a rotten headache which is blocking my creative thought processes :(

Help me out, oh ILX! Please!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

(I have to be away from the computer for a short while, but I'll be back in about an hour)

I've found a link between Herne The Hunter and Robin Hood (Herne having appeared in at least one episode of Robin of Sherwood on TV) so maybe there's something to link Sherwood or Nottingham or Friar Bleeding Tuck to Crowley. Aargh!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

In English mythology, Herne the Hunter is a ghost or monster associated with Windsor Great Park. Where the queen lives, although she also lives at Buckingham Palace, where she threw a party to celebrate 50 years rule. Among the performers was Ozzy Osbourne, who didn't perform his song "Aleister Crowley" on that occasion.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nice!

Thank you, Mark. But I was hoping for something a little more positive :)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Aleister Crowley partied in the Cave of the Golden Calf, also the purported setting of the Momus LP 'The Ultraconformist'. Nick's mother Jo's maiden name is Hood, and using her historian powers she has deduced she is related to Hoods of yore, inc. Robin, who connects to your Herne the Hunter guy throught the magic of Sherwood.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliant, suzy!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

On page 544 of 'The Confessions Of Aleister Crowley', Crowley puts down people who say he is "the only living poet of any magnitude" and refers to other poets better than he. Amongst them is John Masefield, who wrote The Box Of Delights featuring Herne The Hunter.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Or, in a slightly less tortured manner, Crowley and Masefield both appear in the Oxford Book Of English Mystical Verse (pub 1917).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I love you people, I really do :)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

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