From favorini@npl.med.yale.edu Tue Mar 28 17:21:14 GMT 1995 Article: 18561 of rec.juggling Path: hal.COM!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!news.fujitsu.com!amdahl.com!pacbell.com!gw2.att.com!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!cmcl2!yale.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!news From: favorini@npl.med.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) Newsgroups: rec.juggling Subject: Re: Magnus Nicholls centennial Date: 28 Mar 1995 01:12:47 GMT Organization: Neuropsychology Lab, Yale University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3l7nqf$nbj@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <3l202j$n17@hijinks.hal.COM> <3l46dv$c9v@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brain.npl.med.yale.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 In article <3l46dv$c9v@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>, bcohen@cs.buffalo.edu says... >I saw some pictures of Magnus once - all dressed in black, protruding >bones, and an extreme pallor. Very cool. Cool. I didn't think there _were_ any pictures of him. Part of his self-styled creepy/satanic mystique was that his picture never appeared on any of the playbills for his show--only the strange "magickal glyphe" he used as his signature (shades of "the artist formerly known as Prince"). >I wish I knew what his routine consisted of. None of the things I read >about him said anything specific, just debated its heretical nature. Definitely a monster numbers juggler. Reportedly, he juggled 8 "flaming sticks" and 12 "golden hoops" (which were probably not gold, of course). Also a serious self-promoter and into the black magic thing. His performances were known to include ritual sacrifice and other unsavory stuff that made him somewhat of an outcast. He was much more popular in Europe and Russia, where the likes of Le Petomane were making the rounds. I think if he were alive today, he would be a satanic cult leader, like whats-his-name Valentine who heads the Worldwide Church of Satan (largest statanic church in the world, headquartered right here in New Haven!?). Or maybe he would have been a member of Kiss. Hah! ;-) -Fran