Sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull, of the type described as having been brought from the Levant to Aswarby by Mr. AbneyBiblical magician Simon Magus whom Mr. Abney describes as having acquired magical powers through the sacrifice of a boyHermes Trismegistus, the Alchemical magus to whom Mr. Abney attributes the magical ritual of 'absorbing' the calcinedhearts of three children, in order to obtain occult powers
"Lost Hearts" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
