Jeepers, Creepers, Where'd You Get That Stang?

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The man they call Pope Francis was roundly mocked for the bizarre ferula he wielded for the opening of the Synod on Youth on Wednesday.

He was Gandalf. It was a slingshot, etc.

Some wag even modified a photograph to use the fork as a "V" for Vigano.

As far as I know, Catholic commentator Ann Barnhardt was the first to identify it as a stang or Wiccan forked staff.

The stang as such seems to have been invented by mid-20th English occultist Robert Cochrane. Cochrane led the life of an English eccentric, though it would end tragically. He founded two covens (the first broke up due to factional infighting), and maintained an ongoing feud with a rival pagan sect leader. Later he got into a tiff with his family over a claim that he came from a long line of magicians. His Wikipedia entry includes this priceless line:

His nephew, Martin Lloyd, has refuted that the family were ever Witches, insisting that they were Methodists.

Cochrane cheated on his witch-wife, who then threatened to hex him. A few months later he committed suicide by ingesting belladonna on Midsummer Eve. He was thirty-five.

But I digress. 

Sarah Anne Lawless, a contemporary self-proclaimed witch, describes the construction of a stang as follows:

Many make a stang according to Cochrane’s instructions – a tall forked piece of Ash wood with an iron nail in the base, two arrows crossed at near the top and a wreath circling them. This is tradition specific, a stang can be made from any type of wood and instead of being naturally forked one could top a staff with a goat or deer skull or bind antlers or bull horns to the top with rawhide to create the fork. A stang can be any height – from three feet to six feet. I use a three-foot three-pronged Hawthorn staff myself. 

To give it an added function, some witches put a candle between the tines or screw a hook into the wood to hang a lantern from. This is practical as well as representing the light of cunning and wisdom.

From Green Witchcraft III: The Manual, Volume 3

The Bergoglio stang incorporates the requisite iron nail as a crosspiece at the top. Perhaps it could be used to hang a lantern from, representing the light of cunning and wisdom.

Where did he get that stang?

Francis claims that it was a gift from "youth" to be used at the Synod on the same.

Miss Barnhardt posted a picture apparently verifying this.

But if you look carefully, there's another interesting detail. The woman on the left (who according to reports is a not so young thirty years of age) is wearing a red string bracelet, which Barnhardt describes "as a very common talisman in witchcraft/Wicca and Kabbalah, which is basically a hybrid of Talmudic Judaism and witchcraft."

Apparently, it's worn by all the youths.

Is Bergoglio a Satanist? I don't know. I mean it's not like he performs religious rituals wielding a stang or anything.

But to be serious, while in the face of this wicked circus, it's often healthy to laugh, it would be foolish to laugh this off. If the Catholic faith is true, and thus Satan and Satanism exists, if heresy and heretical prelates are on the move, and if Satan is ultimately behind this, as the Catholic Church teaches, why wouldn't we now be seeing such a link?

What do you think heretical antipopes do?

Or, more to the point, what does Satan do with them? 

Read the two recent pieces by Ann Barnhardt here and here.

I think she gets it precisely right:

As I have said and written before, one of satan’s most clever moves has been to foment, encourage and push mentally ill and demonically oppressed people to LOUDLY broadcast insane, ridiculous, totally false “conspiracy theories”. We all know the types and categories. Mind control beams, “chem trails”, shape shifting lizards, underground civilizations, flat earthers, the list goes on and on and on. 

What this has done is make it almost impossible to point out, discuss, and warn about ACTUAL sinister goings-on and actual, honest-to-goodness conspiracies that are very real . . . 

I am morally certain that Antipope Bergoglio’s carrying of a Stang with the iron nail so prominently positioned, into the opening of a farce synod whose entire agenda is the ratification of sodomy, is a clear case of manifestation of satanism. 

And if that makes me a conspiracy theorist, so be it. Some conspiracies are real.

Man, I Wish Jack Chick Were Alive to See This

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A painting of two men "eating" another man, hanging on the wall of John Podesta's office

Yesterday's Wikileaks from the John Podesta emails included a note from Podesta's brother, Tony, inviting him to a "Spirit Dinner" at the home of occult performance artist Marina Abramovic. 

The creepy grossness of this at first seemingly insignificant item was not merely noted by paranoid anti-Clinton people but was highlighted by Wikileaks itself.

Spirit Dinners are part of the religion of Thelema, founded by Satanist Aleister Crowley.

This video made by Abramovic, shows her take on Spirit Dinners:

And here's a picture of one such "dinner," attended by none other than Lady Gaga. She's on the left (licking a spoon). The woman on the right with strategically poised fork is Abramovic.  The blood is allegedly fake, and the "body" is supposedly a woman (though it looks like a man to me).

There's no evidence either way on whether John Podesta actually attended the dinner. 

However, a 2015 Politico article shows that there is (or was) a creepy Spirit Dinner-ish painting hanging in none other than John Podesta's office.

Lest you think it's a painting illustrating 17th century surgery or whatever, Podesta actually confirmed in an April Time Magazine interview that it was what it looked like - two men eating another man.

On the wall in his office at Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, campaign chairman John Podesta has an oil painting on loan from his lobbyist brother, who is an avid art collector. The image shows two men hunched over a dining room table, bearing knives and forks. On the table lays a man in a suit, who looks vaguely like Podesta. “It’s better to be the guy with the fork,” Podesta quips to his colleagues, if they ask about the image, “than the guy on the table.”

Note that the painting is Tony Podesta's, who had forwarded Abramovic's dinner invitation to his brother.

What does it all mean?

Do I think the Podestas are members of a secret occult society (or at least dining club)?

No, actually. I don't. You, if you are a Christian, believe in the reality of the occult. I suspect the Podestas do not. They simply think dinner parties featuring nude bodies bathed in blood are part of the 21st century good life, you know, of high-flying Democrat lobbyists and politicos. Faux-occult things are hip.

Of course faux can often become (or actually be) not so faux, regardless of the intentions or beliefs of the participants. Or so it has been said. 

I have no idea what Marina Abramovic actually thinks or believes. I'm not sure she knows herself. She's an artist. 

Whether the whole thing is satanic, sinister or merely idiotic is your call.

I just wish Jack Chick were alive to see it.

Christopher Lee on the Occult: "Never, Never, Never. You Will Not Only Lose Your Mind, You'll Lose Your Soul."

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Now that I have your attention, you might as well listen

Questioner: It's well known that you have a huge interest in the occult and one of the largest collections of books, ah, of the...

Christopher Lee: I don't have a huge collection, Somebody wrote I had twenty thousand books (laughter). I would have to live in a bath (extended laughter). I have maybe four or five (more laughter). I have The Devil Rides Out, first edition, signed to me by Dennis Wheatley. There's a book just come out, about him called The Devil is a Gentleman. And I have met people who claimed to be Satanists, who claimed to be involved with black magic, who claimed that they, not only knew a lot about it. But as I said, I've certainly been involved, and I warn all of you, never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you'll lose your soul. I don't have a big library of the occult. No. I don't know. Look, the internet and the media, if they can't think of something to do, they invent it (laughter). If they can't think of something to say, I mean, they invent it. I don't know who thought that one up. Looks good in print, I suppose. But it's not true.

Watch the actual video here: