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In the summer of 1995, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food produced a report which fuelled the media claim that the Bodmin Beast phenomenon was a hoax. Deterministic explanations were given such as mistaking a dog for a cat, size distortion, the wrong eyes, rural myth. Hot on its heels, the story of the 'hoaxed' skull found in the River Fowey at Golitha Falls appeared in news reports around the world. The appeal of the story depends on a fixed idea of what's what and where's where. It happens in the countryside . If the beast is really there then it is a wild thing happening in a place it shouldn't. It wrecks the tame image of Heritage, of theme park Britain.In 1991, French sociologist Jean Baudrillard argued that the Gulf War was a hoax, that it was only a hyperreal representation over TV screens. Our own investigations have shown up strong evidence to suggest the Gulf War was a fake, storyboarded by top Hollywood film directors and executed by George Bush as a human sacrifice ritual to boost the flagging popularity of the multinational computer industry. This ruling class cultist sacrifice scenario has repercussions in the whole strange story of the Bodmin Beast phenomena, which we hope to illuminate in the following columns.
On June 22nd 1995 we had our own close encounter in broad daylight with one of the Bodmin-area beasts, a lynx-like creature. I should mention that I worked for a while in London Zoo and have since had many dealings with both domestic and feral cats, so I am reasonably able to identify the various cat species.
I recently came upon an illustration in the World of Wonder -10,000 Things Every Child Should Know, published by the Educational Book Co. Ltd. Of Whitefriars. This undated encyclopaedia was published around the time of the first Atomic power installation and edited by Charles Ray. The illustration,
is captioned as follows: The caracal shown in this picture is an animal midway between the wild cats and the lynxes. It is larger than the wild cat but smaller than the true lynxes, and in colour is reddish-brown, the under parts being paler. Its most noticeable feature is the long ear, tufted with black hair. The eyes are very bright, and the common expression " lynx-eyed " is believed to owe its origin to this species and not to the true lynxes. The caracal is a rather rare animal, and is found in Asia and Africa. It is a creature of the grass and bushes rather than the forests, and its food consists of gazelles, small deer, hares and birds like the crane and pea-fowl. It is said to be able to spring up and capture a bird on the wing at a height of six feet. The caracal can be easily tamed and has often been made a pet.
The animal we watched was indeed springing up and attempting to capture some small birds and made off into the bushes. It had a long tail with a black tip. From the many reports that have come in, it seems likely that there are at least three species of Big Cat living unofficially on the Moor, together with others that are beyond logic and beyond belief. The Bodmin Beast does not at present fit into the official 'tourist' outline of Cornwall, although we note that images of the lesser-known sea monster Moghar have crept into the tourist information offices. As far as we know, no-one has yet put in compensation claims connected with Moghar. We have also noticed overlapping patterns of Beastly sightings in Cornwall, with sites of Arthurian interest, ancient stone circles and sites used by local pagan groups. There is also evidence emerging that there are sinister implications involving animal sacrifice and sex magick in the psychic war within the Windsor family as to who is to wear the crown of the 'United Kingdom'.
Beast of Exmoor hunter Peter Bailey - who once spent three days caught in his own trap - has revealed fresh plans to capture one of the panther-like animals which many believe are preying on livestock in the Westcountry. Mr. Bailey hit the headlines when he triggered the door of his giant cage on the isolated moor while baiting it and had to survive by eating dead pheasants with which he had planned to snare the mystery beast.
THE QUEST GOES ON But Mr. Bailey, who was eventually freed by a passing shepherd, said he was still determined to catch the animal, which he warns could soon kill a human. His cage trap -bated with fresh meat and set up in a likely spot - is designed to catch the animal alive. "I have been trying for years to capture the beast but so far it has been too clever." Said Mr Bailey, of Colliepriest Dairy farm, Tiverton. "Over the years this large catlike animal has caused a lot of damage, killing our chickens and ducks. But it has evaded all my best attempts to snare it. "Only this week a member of my family woke to see the beast loping off with one of our cats in its mouth."
Western Morning News October 16th 1995
A lthough it is said that Big Cat legends are traditional on Bodmin Moor, it is difficult to trace any references to these in the Cornish studies sections in local libraries. There are Big Dog stories of course linked to many places in the UK, onbe of which is famously recorded in the Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, but let's not go mistaking dogs for cats. There are, though, a number of storybooks by the writer Derek Tangye on the subject of domesticated cats in Cornwall. There is another story by Antonia Barber, which has been shown as a networked TV animation, The Mousehole Cat. Set in the fishing village of Mousehole, this story tells of how fishermen at sea are meanced by the Great Storm Cat, a supernatural entity. They are saved by a domesticated pussy cat which flirts with the Great storm cat and somehow magically saves the day. This local tale is apparentlky celebrated each Christmas with a feast of Star Gazey Pie, a disgusting-looking recipe which has dead fish peering out of the piecrust.
CATS DEBAGGED
The Book of Kells Beast L ocal author Dr Tuesday Lobsang Rampa once published a book allegedly dictated by a feline companion. Rampa's first book The Third Eye Rampa's first book The Third Eye published around forty years ago was supposed to be the autobiography of a Tibetan Lama, The story began with his childhood schooling in a monastery, that culminated in the boring of a hole through the bone of his skull by which means he acquired the capacity to see the " auras " that emanated from everyone.
THIRD EYES OPENED Sceptical detective work revealed that Rampa was in fact a plumber from Plympton, by the name of Cyril Henry Hoskins. This didn't upset his output of books, which have been very influential in the new age world. Mama San R'ab Rampa also known as Mrs Hoskins, writes of her life with Siamese cat-people in the books Tigerlily and Pussywillow. In the 1970s, Hoskins took employment as a clerk in a correspondence college in Wadebridge. There is a community centre dedicated to the royal poet laureate John Betjeman in Wadebridge, which is known for certain controversy over refusing access to the disabled. It is not known whether Betjaman and Rampa ever met up, but the former probably did as much to mystify the 'character' of Britain as the latter did of Tibet.
T he popular belief that living in Cornwall guarantees invigorating clean sea air has been blown away by new scientific evidence which shows that Cornish air quality is amongst the worst in Britain. Results released by Friends of the Earth who measure air quality of Bodmin Moor in August show that air pollution levels in Cornwall broke international health guidelines - but people were told that the air quality was " good " based on the information from a Department of Health monitoring site in Devon.
GHOSTLY FELINE STIGMATA OF SCREAMING LADY GAIA Ground level ozone is the main component of summertime smog and it forms when sunlight reacts with air polluted by exhaust emissions. The South West has had the highest ozone levels in Britain apart from rural Nottinghamshire. It is now the fashion to regard ozone as harmful. It irritates the mucous membranes of the respiratory system causing coughing, choking, impaired lung function and it aggravates asthma symptoms. Other common symptoms include headaches, eye nose and throat irritations and chest discomfort on deep breathing.
T he Goodaver farm, which features in many Beast reports, stands upon an old straight track beside the River Fowey, behind it lies the Goodaver stone circle. There is no public right of way to the circles, paths up to it are obstructed by barbed wire and the "wild cats keep out" signs that feature in news reports. During our visit to the circle this summer, we found in the field below, the freshly chewed-off leg of a sheep. There was no other sign of the injured animal.
CIRCLES OF SILENCE It's not unusual to find the corpses of sheep in the many ancient stone circles on Bodmin Moor. Whether they have died naturally, or have been the victims of sacrifice rituals, or fallen prey to the Beast, is unclear.
The Goodaver circle has ley alignments with Brown Willy, the biggest hill in Cornwall, and is a focal point for many other resonant sites. We are informed by visiting Irish people that "Bodmin" means smooth penis and "Bodmin Moor" means long smooth penis. What is remarkable in the folklore in the area of the Big cat sightings, is not a Big Dick connection, but the many links with the legends of King Arthur - which you'll find in any tourist guidebook.
The Arthurian tales of chivalry were largely a 19th century invention, a spin on old folk tales invented to give a bit of glamour to the sour-faced old royal act. This was no great novelty, the same set of folk-myths were also hornswaggled by Hister's crew in Germany, and again to launch the new age economy in the psychic matket town of Glastonbury,a nd again to start Camelot's National Lottery in Tintagel. So we'll give King Arthur a miss.
A t the end of the Goodaver road we come across the tourist trap Jamaica Inn which cashes in on its reputation made by Daphne du Maurier's book and Alfred Hitchcock's film. The Inn also now houses Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosities, formerly based in Sussex.
AWAY FROM THE FLOCK
The Rabbits' Village School, Tableaux by Walter Potter, 1888 This collection is one of the only existing examples of a complete Victorian Museum. The curiosities include preserved specimens of animal 'freaks' such as Siamese pigs, archaic musical instruments and opium smoking paraphernalia. The most famous exhibits in Potter s Museum are the animal tableaux, made up of preserved animals posed in glass cases as if taking part in human activities. As disquietingly necrophiliac as a Turner prize show, a list of some of the tableaux gives the flavour: The Happy Family, A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed, Athleti c Toads, The House that Jack Built, The Guinea Pigs' Cricket Match, The Sporting Party and The Kittens' Wedding.
The Kitten's Tea and Croquet Party has 37 little kittens having tea, or playing croquet, with onlookers and waitresses. Walter Potter shows great attention to detail, two kittens appear to be reading a time-table, another is brushing its hair. A social gathering of some importance seems to be taking place, a courteous young kitten is offering a plate of 'mouse tarts' to his neighbour.
The guidebook points out "All the kittens came from a farm at Henfield . . and were NOT killed especially for this case! . . . Young visitors may like to know that nothing was ever killed especially for the museum as Potter was a very kindly man . . . It is an interesting fact that there is not one black cat to be found anywhere in the museum. In bygone days they were thought to be connected with witchcraft, and therefore it was deemed unlucky to keep them as pets . . . and . . . the museum has been filmed by Walt Disney".
T he 1924 edition of Sir Robert Baden Powell's Scouting For Boys is dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Prince of wales and His Royal Highness Prince Albert Duke of York. Two of the Proficiency Badges illustrated therein, the Thanks Badge and the Medal of Merit, are made up of the Prince of Wales's fleur-de-lys superimposed upon the Swastika.
CAMP FIRE YARN 
a)The Thanks Badge b) The Medal of Merit The swastika is of course a solar symbol used by many cultures long before Hister's crew adopted it. It is interesting here in the light of the speculation that Prince William is in fact the Solar Beast whose number is 666. The eurocentric suggestion that users of the swastika symbol are necessarily fascist is as silly as suggesting that users of the circled 'A' symbol (truck manufacturers Seddon Aktinson and followers of the secular version of the apocalyptic faith, for example) are necessarily anti-authoritarian.
In Scouting for Boys, this key text of obedient citizenship through woodcraft, the sadist Baden Powell draws upon occult sources from around the world, the samurai, the Arthurian knowghts. The Cub Scouts are of course steeped in the anthropomorphic symbolism of Freemason Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, The same symbol manipulation system was picked up and worked into the celluloid images of the Disney studios. In The Jungle Book, Pocahantas, The Lion King,, the Disney studios repeatedly re-hash the theme of monarchy and the "animal kingdom", reinforcing the lie that the hierarchy relationships promoted by bourgeois culture are some kind of natural law.
In Scouting for Boys, Baden Powell also warns of the dangers of "beastliness";
"Smoking and drinking are men's vices; men have nothing but contempt for a fellow who gives way to it. Some boys, like those who start smoking, think it a very fine an manly thing to tell dirty stories, but it only shows them to be little fools. Yet such talk and the reading of trashy books or looking at lewd pictures, are very apt to lead a thoughtless boy into the temptation of self-abuse. This is a most dangerous thing for him, for, should it become a habit, it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and excessive cases have led to the lunatic asylum.
"Sometimes the desire is brought on by indigestion, or from eating too rich food, or from constipation. It can therefore be cured by correcting these, and by bathing at once in cold water, or by exercising the upper part of the body by arm exercises, boxing, etc.
"If you still have trouble about it, do not make a secret of it, but go to your scoutmaster and talk it over with him, and all will come right."
Research into anomalous phenomena has recently concentrated on explanations such as false memory syndrome anderrors in observation.There are however simple physical explanations which may account for evidence of Alien Big Cats and other wildlife in strange contexts.
MORE WAYS TO SKIN A CAT As a professional arbitrator of what is and what is not "possible", Professor Stephen Hawking has revised his earlier conclusions. In his forward to the book The Physics of Star Trek, he says that time travle might in fact be possible. His obviously flawed earliar argument in his six million hardback bestseller, A Brief History of Time was that the laws of physics did not permit time travel. There were such things as wormholes in space, connecting different parts of the universe, but they could not be used for time travel.
Others were not convinced, for example, Hawking's friend Kip Thorne, of the California Institute of Technology. He argued in the book Black Holes and Time Warps, that the predictions of general relativity permitted time travel down a wormhole in space, provided you could find some way of keeping one open and then getting a worm, or possibly a Wild Cat down it.
Wormholes are hypothetical warps in space, predicted by Einstein. If there are warps in space, then there must be warps in time too.
Another scientist, Richard Gott of Princeton, proposed that if you took two cosmic strings left over from the Big Bang and moved them past each other quickly, you might end up with a method of time travel. By November 1995, Stephen Hawking was at last beginning to admit that the observed data concerning black holes did not fit the conclusions he had jumped to earlier. In his Waterstone lecture, Stephen Hawking went on to point out that the uncertainty principle implies that rather than the nearest black hole being a few light years away in space, that space is full of black holes, a hundred billion times smaller than the nucleus of the atom. Because they are so small, the rate at which information is lost is very low - which is why the laws of science appear to be deterministic to a very good approximation. We can predict the motion of the planets, even the weather, for a few days ahead, but the universe is constructed in a way that is intrinsically indeterminate. "One can calculate probabilities, but one cannot make any definite predictions," he said. "Thus the future of the universe is not completely determined by the laws of science and its present state"
"The Cat, he walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."
Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories
Another person sometimes known as the Beast 492, Aleister Crowley wrote that cabalist adventurers will become aware of landscapes and figures "such have a quality of their own, they are not like material things - they will seem to be between the two." Occult travellers who come across a leopard or lynx will, according to overrated dead smackhead Crowley's system of correspondence for gullible adolescents, find themselves in the region of Netsah, the sphere of Venus. Crowleyites and numerologists may like to investigate the connection between the death by bombing of an adolescent IRA member aboard a number 171 London bus and the Home secretary's subsequent tightening up of police powers to harass pedestrians.
NETSAH NEWS
The November issue of Membership, the newsletter for members of the Natural History Museum in London, calls the beast reports "a mystery worthy of Conan Doyle". The newsletter tells how the skull found in the River Fowey was sent to the Zoology Department at the museum where Daphne Hills was asked to identify it. There it was decided to use traditional methods of skeletal comparison and the experience of their scientific team, rather than modern DNA profiling, to identify the skull. They compared it to other skulls in their vast collection and found it was most similar to a leopard, the shape of its nasal bones meant it was of Asian or Indian origin.
NATURAL HISTORY Ms Hills then compared the skull to male and female specimens and decided it belonged to a young adult male. Staff at the museum noticed a series of cut marks on the skull, which looked like the flesh had been stripped off with a craft knife. It also looked like the projecting part at the base of the skull had also been severed by the use of a sharp implement. The remains of an insect egg-case, identified as that of a tropical cockroach, was found inside a piece of dried brain membrane. The museum newsletter says that these cockroaches do occur in Britain, as pests in heated buildings, but they are never found living wild on moorland or other inhospitable environments. From this evidence the museum experts congratulate themselves on having ."Holmesian" gifts of observation and deduction with their conclusion that "the skull ended up in Cornwall only by human agency." . . . Enough of this expert balderdash! If Sherlock Holmes wasn't a fictional character, he might have visited the GoIitha Woods nature trail where the skull evidence was found and would have noticed the close proximity of heated buildings. His conclusions then might be that there might have been human interference with the skull, but he would not necessarily have jumped to the conclusion that the skull did not come from Cornwall. It's interesting that the Natural History museum mob should invoke Conan Doyle, who after all was a total sucker for table tapping spiritualists and believed a photo taken by two little girls of some cardboard cutouts was real live fairies!
A s NASA's Columbia mission orbited the Earth in October 1993, five rats on board were decapitated without anaesthetic in a procedure allegedly "to give us the first opportunity to study the physical changes caused by microgravity."
MAGICK CIRCLES It has long been an open secret that the NASA programme his been one of ritual magic, using tactics well-known to black magickians in their hunger for power. Their animal sacrifice rites have an echo in the Bodmin events. In occult theory, a living creature is a storehouse of energy and when it is killed most of this energy is suddenly liberated. The amount of energy let loose when the victim is killed is very great, out of all proportion with the animal's size or strength. The killing is done inside the circle (or orbit) to keep the animal's energy in and concentrate it. Please do not try this at home. We only expose this unpleasant and foolhardy activity in the hope that that it will soon be abandoned. .
T here have been rumours of a government and military cover-up regarding the big cats seen on Exmoor and Bodmin. Bodmin Beast investigator, Jonathan Downes tells in Animals and Men how he received a mysterious phone call from a former marine who claimed he was involved with the scandal that took place when the relationship between Princess Di and Major James Hewitt became public knowledge. This caller said that when the Royal Marines made their well publicised and apparently fruitless hunt for the Beast of Exmoor in the mid 1980's that he was a sergeant in one of the reconnaissance parties. He says that the Beast search was not the primary aim of the project, but couldn't reveal the real purpose. However he says that three animals were shot, but there was a cover up because this had happened while trespassing on private ground and the marines had not had permission to carry firearms.
THE HACKER There is an inference that the skull found this summer belonged to one of the three beasts shot in the 80's.
T his story of the animal's head hacked off and left in the river bed bears strong similarities to a famous scene in Mario Puzo's The Godfather. The Mafia don demonstrates how hard he is by having his gang break into his cocky rival's personal territory and leave a grim memento - his horse's head. The Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food is jokingly nicknamed the MAFFia, but this may not be the gang responsible.
HACKED The Big Cat skull that made world headlines was found in Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall. Is this yet another one of the tricks John Dee's intelligence community have been pulling - or is it a sign of psychic warfare within the Windsor family? The royal coat of arms has two beasts on it, a lion and a unicorn, neither of which are recognised as species indigenous to the UK.
The Number of the Beast
T he Big Cat skull had a tropical cockroach up its nostril. The cockroach is popularly believed to be the only animal capable of surviving nuclear war. The Windsor gang and the British government were complicent beneficiaries of the French nuclear tests taking place this summer in the Muruoa Atoll. The British government was ticked off at the Commonwealth conference in November by other member states because of this. However the focus of ecological and democratic blame was suddenly shifted to the Nigerian government, which was barred from the conference following the hangings of certain of its opponents.
DIABOLIC NOSTRIL EVIDENCE
T he most important reason for the sacrifice, however is the psychological change which the magician obtains from it. The magician prepares herself by training her body with a programme of physical exercise. She uses a combination of fasting and binge eating of food with high energy value, and will wound herself till the blood runs. If the magician's bloody sacrifice of an animal is combined with the release of sexual energy in orgasm, the effect is to heighten the magician's frenzy and the supply of force in the circle still further.
HORNED GODDESSES' EATING DISORDERS According to Eliphas Levi, the head of a black cat which has been fed on human flesh for five days was one of the. items to be included in magic circles to conjure evil forces.
Burning the brains of a black cat produces an odour said to summon up spirits connected with Saturn, as the. planet of Time. To witches following a Roman-derived system, the horned goddess who is their patron is known as Hecate. She is three-fold, linked with the three phases of the moon - new, full and old ~ and identified as Luna (Selene), the moon, Diana on earth, and Prosperine in the underworld.
In the sixth century St Caesarius of Arles expelled 'the demon whom the peasants call Diana' from a tormented girl. In 1318 Pope John XXII, ordering the investigation of a group of magicians at his court in Avignon, said that they copulated with demonesses called Dianae. Diana, is also known as the Roman goddess of the hunt and equivalent of the Greek Artemis. A male version also revered by witches is the horned god Herne, who is said to ride his hunt through Windsor Great Park.
The Canon Episcopi quoted by Burchard, Bishop of Worms around 1020 says: "It is also not to be omitted that some wicked women perverted by the devil, seduced by illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves, in the hours of night, to ride upon certain beasts with Diana, the goddess of pagans, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the dead of night to traverse great spaces of earth, and to obey her commands as of their mistress, and to be summoned to her service on certain nights."
"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. "
While Princess Diana dished the dirt on her sex life in BBC's Panorama, on November 20th 1995, Charles headed straight for St. Michael's Mount to set about his own ritual workings on the great Michael-Mary ley. Di then retaliated by conducting midnight hospital healing rituals. In April I996 we watched a lunar eclipse coinciding with the appearance of a new comet. Barclays cash dispenser machines in Cornwall were temporarily put out of service.
It is of common knowledge that the binary code sequence in electronic cash transactions is often thrown by sunspot activity - consider the implications of these astronomical concordances! A curious sequence of events now occurred, the MAFFia among others became embroiled in a desperate massive pan-European cattle sacrifice ritual to restore confidence in this electronic-commodity exchange system. There was the cover story of the spread of the virus BSE from cattle to humans via DNA sequencing. DNA collation being the main purpose of the 'anti-rave' Criminal Justice Act. The bankers put out the story that they had been blackmailed by a bomb-hoax group known as the Mardi Gras Experience. Smear stories were even put out against the editor of Hoax magazine - a medical industry computer activist - claiming that he was reviving the Angry Brigade group, using slogans cribbed from the works of Ringo Starr rather than obsolete punk rock lyric.l The computer sales boffins were desperately working to correct the imminent collapse of the fragile mediated commodity culture in the face of what they saw as a language virus from outer space. Space virus or no space virus, it is time to wise up to these ruling class superstition-mongers. Stop the killing!
* As the readership of Network News is largely non-Cornish, we have used the Anglian term Cornwall, meaning land of Cornish foreigners' to describe this psychogeographic region, rather than the more correct Kernow - also the term tourist rather than emmett. We use the term psychogeographic rather than geographic or national, to distance ourselves from fixed concepts of place and from various nationalist movements, if you get my drift. You may note the semantic connection with the old multi-use-names Wally used by the Wessex Anarchist Libertarian League of Youth, and Emmett Grogan used by San Franscisco Diggers. Wally meaning 'foreigner' and Emmett Grogan meaning 'hairy tourist'.
BACK TO NO FUTURE T he above photograph of a time-travelling Mohawked Punk Rocker is taken from Murray Lerner's documentary film Message to Love, shot at the 1970 Isle of Wight pop festival.
First published in Network News Sex Magick Sacrifice Issue, 1995
