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Happy Samhain & welcome to BROTHER BEASTUS 𖤐 GRIMOIRE!

I think of Samhain and Halloween as the start of a dark new year. In that spirit, I wish you all a happy new year this weekend!

Not coincidentally, earlier this week the Brother Beastus blog on tumblr hit 10k followers. Thank you for showing your support by following; it makes a difference! Your support helps make all of this possible.

This incredible image by Astra Zero is inspired by the Dark Lord from 1985’s “Legend” as played by Tim Curry. I suppose that makes the man in his arms Tom Cruise….

The uncensored version of this image is on Twitter. You can find more Astra Zero on tumblr and on the official website.

Twisted Beast is a UK-based designer and retailer of ‘beastly and hellish’ sex toys and poppers, and they have a really great illustrator in Vitamin Bara for their website—for instance, here’s Asmodeus:

You can find an uncensored version of Asmodeus and other great art on the Twisted Beast Store. Between you and me, The Mammon looks like fun!

This tablet from 3500 years ago may be the earliest known depiction of a ghost. It is believed to show a male ghost being led back to the underworld and is part of an instruction manual on how to help lost ghosts, people who didn’t have proper burials, find final peace.

Ghosts [in ancient Babylon], having been deprived of eternal rest, were generally considered objects of sympathy. 

“So there was a whole school of specialist magic, which was to appease ghosts and to send them back where they belong without any further trouble,” according to Irving Finkel, a curator in the London museum’s Middle Eastern department and the author of the forthcoming book The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies.

The directions [on the tablet] call for the exorcist to make figurines of a man and woman; prepare two vessels of beer; and, at sunrise, speak ritual words calling on the Mesopotamian god Shamash, who was responsible for bringing ghosts to the underworld. Finkel says the idea was to transfer the ghost into one of the figurines.

Smithsonian Magazine: 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost [Apple News]

• Heavy Metal Heart Attack: Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner talks about what it was like to have a heart attack on stage: “As I watch footage from the Louder Than Life Festival in Kentucky, I can see in my face the confusion and anguish I was feeling whilst playing ‘Painkiller’ as my aorta ruptured and started to spill blood into my chest cavity. I was having what my doctor called an aortic aneurysm and complete aortic dissection. From what I’ve been told by my surgeon, people with this don’t usually make it to the hospital alive.”

  Faulkner said that he underwent emergency open heart surgery, where parts of his chest were “replaced with mechanical components.” He added: “I’m literally made of metal now.”

  Rolling Stone: Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner Suffered 'Aortic Aneurysm' During Concert [Apple News]

  

• Vienna Museums Join OnlyFans: Apparently, museums are just as frustrated with social media censorship as the rest of us.

  Business Insider: Vienna museums to put artwork on OnlyFans after TikTok, Facebook bans [Apple News]

• What is Samhain? Meaning behind the pagan festival, how it inspired Halloween, and the traditions behind it from iNews

Email Ask Me Anything (AMA) starts now and continues all day tomorrow, Saturday 30 Oct 2021. The last time I did this it got a great response so I’m going to continue. To participate all you have to do is reply to this or tomorrow’s email. The floor will be open for anything. I will send out an AMA email reminder tomorrow.

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Please enjoy the upcoming Samhain, Halloween, and the Dark Moon 🌚 next Thursday. Stay safe everybody.

From my grimoire to yours…. Infernal Blessings!

BROTHER BEASTUS 𖤐 SINCE 2016