Death on Iona: The Mysterious Death of Norah Fornario and the Search for Netta

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Not much of a headline, unless a penny-a-word hack gets a picture of a photogenic young woman and decides to insert a little spice: Naked. Even more strange is the fact that a number of people who have watched our Netta music video have experienced choking feelings, or burning around the neck (as with one psychic who envisioned a man in his 30’s with a moustache as her killer) we think Marie (Netta) Fornario was strangled, probably by an Iona islander and the matter hushed up.

Immortal Hour of Netta Fornario: Part Two – Jason Roberts The Immortal Hour of Netta Fornario: Part Two – Jason Roberts

With a little digging around, I found that one of the branches of the Theosophical Society (at one time there were two branches in the area) had once held meetings in the Yorkshire Penny Bank Chambers at the end of North Parade and thought it was possible from what I was told that this was the same building where Aleister Crowley had also held his rituals. She sent a very cryptic message to her London housekeeper saying that she would not be home anytime soon as she had a terrible case of healing to deal with. Netta was naked, apart from a black cloak (which was said to symbolise somebody fairly high up in the echelons of the Alpha Et Omega Temple).I would say personally that it is not always necessary to do elaborate rituals to achieve such a thing, for if some being wants to see you, it will find you anyway and many people claim to have seen their Guardian Angel, just check out the psychic monthly magazines, without going in to retreat for a year. Religiously consumed by a supposedly religious evolutionary force; pseudo- epitome of all-seeing eye. Sorry, but rather than accepting magickal claims that she was killed by some kind of psychic attack (as Dion Fortune implied in 1930), I’d rather be completely boring and look at the facts. Greg Powrie plays John with a certain stiffness that fits the period, and convincingly unravels as a doctor who cannot love, cures rather than heals and has his own guilty secret. It’s a gothic, Victorian tale of magic and mystery, murder and madness, and the yearning for immortality.

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There was a detailed 1955 account of Netta’s story by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor who used the testimony of two Ionan-dwelling friends Lucy Bruce and Iona Cammell, the latter of whom wrote an obituary for Netta in The Atlantis Quarterly. It wasn't until the next afternoon that a pair of local men reportedly discovered her body on a hillside near Loch Staonaig, a knife lying nearby, and the silver cross—blackened like the rest of her jewelry—around her neck. Dion went further and claimed that Moira Mathers, wife of the Temple’s co-founder Samuel Maddell Matters, was behind the attack on Netta … even though Moira had died 16 months previously! Though they were law enforcement, the Scottish police may have been chilled by the fact that the body was found next to a fairy mound. Google Earth gives the distance between the southernmmost tip oNetta Fornario was in love with the occult and in her studies she became a magical legend of her own. On 17 November 1929, the body of a young Egyptian-born occultist was found there, laying across a cross cut into the earth, naked except for a black cloak enveloping her and a blackened silver cross around her neck.