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Most evil man in the world!Jul 26, 2007
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| We started they day off with the story of the "Most Evil Man in the World!" His name, Aleister Crowley! This guy was completly NUTZ and he even started his own religion called Thelmism! He bought this famous house called the Boleskine House in the Highlands where he practiced his "religion/cult." Throughout his life he performed sadistic experiments for attention. He wanted to be known as Evil! By the end of his life the people had gotten tired of his crazy antics and he started taking things too far. Crowley was a habitual drug user and also maintained a meticulous record of his drug-induced experiences with laudanum, opium, cocaine, hashish, alcohol, ether, and heroin. He did lots of animal sacrifices and was obsessed with beastiality. He even had people watch as his wife had sex with a goat and he slit the goat's throat. He also believed in sacrificing virgin boys and was reported to have done this on several occasions. The Boleskine house is famous not only because of this crazy man that lived there but because of another crazy man. Jimmy Page (Guitarist for Led Zeplin) purchased the house and they actually wrote the song "Stairway to heaven" at that house. THe house is reported to be haunted, even the area around the house and several Thelmist believers still visit the house often. Other famous bands also sang about the house and Crowley including Ozzy, the beatles (the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had a picture of Crowley, and the Beatles all apparently loved Crowley and his beliefs and John Lennon, in an interview, says the "whole idea of the Beatles was Aliester Crowley's idea, "do what thou wilt"), Queen wrote a song about him too! Craziness! After that we headed to the Isle of Skye. To get to it we had to cross the Skye Bride which doesn't fit into the Highland scenery and old villages at all. It's a very modern structure that was built in 1994. It took forever to build the bridge and they went over budget several times so when the bridge finally opened they had to open a toll to pay off all the debt. Apparently when it first started the toll for us to go over was over 50£ which is over $107 Canadian and that was only 1 way! The over 9,000 people of Skye were super mad because they had to use the toll daily! It was the only way for them to get to other parts of Scotland. The people complained so much that they decided to have a discounted fare for people bringing over livestock. Sheep get to roam the streets in skye and still do today! So before the people would cross the bridge, they would pick up a sheep and put it in there car. After they crossed the bridge, they would take the sheep out of there car. This started to get really out of control and in 2004, they removed all tolls! Horray! When we got there we headed over to a super old bridge and we were told a really old fairytale. It was really cool and it involved a pretty woman, fairies and magic water. It's a long story so if you want to hear it just ask one of us. It was really hard to focus on the story becasue we were all getting swarmed by little bugs called Midges! They are in the same family as the mosquito so they LOVE the water and Scotland's grounds are covered in moggy, wet peaty ground so they thrived in this area. The bites didn't really itch but they grabbed onto everything and were all over the bus. They even got into your hair...eww! |
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