The ruined home of a real-life “Wicker Man” and former Satanist has been put up for sale – for more than £500,000.
Boleskine House in Foyers, on the banks of Loch Ness, used to be owned by Aleister Crowley, who is said to have practised black magic between 1899 and 1933.
Crowley, born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1875, was an occultist, writer and mountaineer who rejected Christian doctrine and established Thelema.
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Calling himself a prophet, he said he would be the one to guide humanity into the so-called Aeon of Horus – an age of spiritual interest and self-realisation.
He died aged 72 in Hastings, Sussex, in 1947.
In 2015, a major fire devastated the B-listed Georgian building.
