Leila Waddell: Of Music and Mephistopheles
August 10 was the birthday of Leila Waddell (1880-1932), best known today as the favorite of notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, though were it not so, she’d certainly merit mention as a musician in histories of that field. Waddell was a leading concert violinist who taught at posh schools in her native Australia. In 1908 she […]