The Hopeless Necromancer

Exorcism A Day

2008-04-23T06:42:00Z

Dallas News .com has this interview:
Renaissance woman: Hilaire Kallendorf
Texas A&M scholar and winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities talks with Points about exorcism, postmodernism and our culture's return to morality

Researching her recent book, Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain, took the self-styled Christian humanist on what she describes as a demon-chasing tour of old churches abroad.

The dallasnews.com site may require signing up. It's free and the article is very interesting from a medieval and exorcist point. I will post the entire article if the dallasnews.com site is to cantakerous for all.

Today's video exorcism was posted one year ago today and comes from Russia:

And it lists the website exorcism.ru as its source.

We are leaving for Houston, TX, to visit my mom in the hospital on thursday a.m. I'm not guaranteeing these updates, but will catch up as time allows.

Exorcism A Day

2008-04-22T06:41:42Z

Another that takes place "sometime" in April:

SOMMAI CHAIPANYA, a 38-year-old mother of two, died in Udon Thani, Thailand, in April 1996 from ritualistic beatings to her head and genitals with a dried stingray tail, administered by Tip Dongsaengkaew, 57, a female shaman. She had at first agreed to the beatings, which her family suggested as a way to get rid of evil spirits. But she later fled to escape them and refused to pay a £100 fee. The shaman abducted her and continued the ritual until she died. Dongsaengkaew was charged with murder.

And some video fun too:
An Islamic Exorcism

The video was added to youtube on this day last year.
Christians - nor just Catholics - have no hold on demon troubles.

Exorcism A Day

2008-04-21T06:45:15Z

NICHOLAS SOGUNRO, 27, a renegade Baptist from East Ham, east London, believed that his fiancée, Mary Odegbami, 26, was possessed by the Devil after she said she didn't want to marry him. With the help of his disciple, Thomas Macauley, 25, Sogunro locked her in a bedroom, starved and beat her for 14 days in April 1994, force-feeding her with "communion" wine and bread. According to Macauley, she died after Sogunro said: "In the name of Jesus Christ, I command the Angels of Execution to kill this body." They tried to resurrect her for three days, after which the body was sealed for nearly a year in the back room of a house that Sogunro had made into his church. Sogunro was jailed for six years, Macauley for 18 months.

Reference:
Unsolved Mysteries.
(Nothing to do with the old show, though.)

This Day In Exorcisms

2008-04-20T14:26:22Z

The whispers started in April in the mind of the 23-year-old nun. In the heart of an Orthodox convent in Romania's impoverished northeast, doctors say, Maricica Irina Cornici believed she heard the devil talking to her, telling her she was sinful. She was treated for schizophrenia, but when she relapsed, a monk and four nuns tried a different method: exorcism.

They found Cornici bound to a cross, gagged with a towel and left in a dank room at the convent for three days without food — where she died of suffocation and dehydration.

The case has stunned this impoverished nation where rural youths, many raised in orphanages like Cornici, have flocked to Orthodox monasteries and convents for spiritual help or food and shelter. Polls show the Orthodox Church to be the nation's most trusted institution.

In April, Cornici was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in the northeast city of Vaslui.

"She thought the devil was talking to her and told her that she was a sinful person," said Dr. Gheorghe Silvestrovici, a psychiatrist who treated her. "It's a symptom of schizophrenia, and she was probably having her first episode."

The nun was given medication and released on April 20 to the care of the Holy Trinity convent in the nearby village of Tanacu, an isolated community of about 1,000 people in a hilly area cultivated with vineyards and corn.

She was supposed to return in 10 days, but never did.

More here.

This Day In Exorcisms

2008-04-19T17:14:04Z

I've moved this topic here, because it seems more fitting to be coming from Grim. As this topic is NOT well documented, it may not be every day but will be fun for me anyway.

So, the book "The Exorcist" is apparently based on a "real" exorcism Blatty learned about in school.The exorcism was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland and Bel-Nor, Missouri. Several area newspapers reported on a speech a priest gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a thirteen-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks, ending on April 19, 1949.

And if you're looking for a new job:

Australia
Hannah Davies of The Courier-Mail in Australia reports that the Catholic Church there is training hundreds of priests as exorcists to meet a growing demand! The Church says the demand has been brought about by interest in satanism and the occult, leading to a rise in exorcisms across Queensland. One priest, who asked not to be identified due to fear of reprisals, has said he was carrying out at least one exorcism 'a fortnight', with most requests coming from the Gold Coast than anywhere else.

The priest explained that an exorcism involves holy water, sacrament and Bible reading and can go on for many hours, the priest said. "Being possessed by a demon is terrifying in one's mental and emotional life," he said. "Some of these manifestations are extremely powerful, causing people to be plagued by disturbances. They hear voices and see hideous creatures in their sleep.

"There has been a recruitment of pagan practices, and it's sheer poison.

"The Gold Coast is not good at all. I do far more exorcisms there than Brisbane."

The article continues (emphasis added):
The Catholic Church has vowed to "fight the devil head-on" by training hundreds of priests as exorcists. Bishop Brian Finnigan, acting head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, said it was important for the church to carry out exorcisms.

"People need to be freed of that burden," he said.

Father Gabriele Amorth, 82, the Pope's Exorcist-in-Chief, announced the initiative recently amid church concerns about an increase in people dabbling in the occult. Under plans being considered, each bishop would have a group of priests in his diocese who were specially trained in exorcism.

Father Amorth said: "Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the devil. You have to hunt high and low for a proper, trained exorcist."

Queensland Catholic priests can carry out exorcisms only if they have been authorised by an archbishop.

The priest source, who is based in Brisbane, is the only one permitted to do exorcisms in the state. He said he had travelled to Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville and Toowoomba to save people.

"We are not very plentiful and certainly need more of us to cope with the big occult following that is emerging today," he said.

"It's frightening what can happen when you invite entities into your life which are not meant to be part of God's world."
I remember when I first started teaching back in the mid-80's, when satanaism was 'the cool thing' among many of my students. Besides seeing pentagrams scrawled on kids' bookcovers and clothing, I recall seeing some kids fascinated by tarot cards and runes. Book stores started to have bigger sections devoted to "new age", "spirituality", as well as the "occult", mainly all of these being lumped into one section. (I remember one time being incensed at a store for also piling Christianity into that! How ignorant!) That seems to have died down a bit over the past ten years or so. I wonder if the ol' pendulum will be swinging back towards the occult again. Then again, atheism and radical secularism seem to be dominating the world stage right now, doing a tidy job of challenging people's beliefs. Maybe those are forms of satanism repackaged? The "new and improved" version?

Kids, next thing you know they'll be praying to invisible beings and asking them to take control of their lives
Lets pray...

"Dear Jesus I believe in you. Have mercy on me a sinner. Lord Jesus I want to follow you. Cleanse me from all my sins and come into my heart, be my Savior and Lord. I believe you lived without sin, died on the cross for my sins, rose again on the third day and have now ascended unto the Father. I love you Lord, take control of my life. I believe you hear my prayer. I welcome the Holy Spirit of God to lead me in your way. I accept you Lord as my Savior and desire to be a true believer and follower of Jesus. Thank you Jesus for hearing my prayer. In Jesus name I pray."

Amen
this prayer brought to you by comemeetjesus.com and several other sites.

Cupid

2008-02-11T21:40:55Z

The latest design for the Oklahoma City Valentine's Day Show!

The show and new ideas

2007-12-28T22:24:53Z

I have to have 10 pieces for the Bloody Valentine show in Oklahoma City. The new pieces will be shown up here as they get done. Here's a hint on them:
1. Snow White
2. Rapunzel

Isn't it romantic?

The Show!

2007-12-27T22:21:09Z

On Valentine's Day, 2008, The Hopeless necRomantic will be on display in Oklahoma City. Another artist Dirk Hooper will be showing that day too. Anybody in the area please come on out. We'll give more details as they become available.
Plus I have to come up with more designs, so shoot em at me if you come up with something.

A Bit of News from the dead

2007-12-09T07:23:57Z

A woman in Oklahoma (a friend of a friend) has expressed an interest in doing a showing of my works! That's right...things look Grim for Oklahoma! She wants to sell posters and shirts of the Hopeless necRomantic. So new designs to come.

Printing

2007-08-23T21:38:33Z

Tonight I make some tee shirts for the first time. These are for the wrestling match this weekend, but I'm posting here because this is why I've learned screen printing. After this I will start making my own Hopeless necRomantic tees where they will be cost effective.
I'm using Broder Brothers as my shirt supplier. They carry all the majors labels at a price that is better than Wal-Mart and just above wholesale. I got 61 shirts in black and white of various sizes for 188.71. With the blessing of the internet gods I paid no sales tax. This means I'll be able to chose styles of clothing to print (babydolls for you slave2tehtink). Just in time for Halloween, the Grimboi will be able to do the shirts that show your undying love.

For all you crafty people (double entendre intended) out there, i found a bargain at the wally world in the fabric department. I found some fabric that works beautifully for screens at 3.00/yard. I got 7 yards and can do lots of screens this way.

Stay tombed for more info.

Anaglyphing Zombies

2007-05-15T05:13:41Z

Anaglyph is the name for the red/blue system of viewing 3d images. Like those old 50's B movies. And I'm making t-shirts in this method!

The image above is the first real test. If you have the glasses, yay for u! I will be including them with orders when they ship.

Now, would anybody want them? I know you have to have the glasses, but i think with the right image or text (or hidden image or text) these could work.

Besides crawling out of graves and bursting from the stomach, what other ideas - graphic and text - do YOU think might work?

hopelessnecro @ 2007-05-04T00:47:00

2007-05-04T05:57:09Z

I haven't been publishing much as all of you out there know. So here are some tidbits from the grimster:

Besides constantly being ignored on the job front, I have been setting up things to start screen printing my shirts and selling them myself. I'll post a link soon to the supplier so u folks can help me pick the shirts to print on.

I'm working on some horror/sci-fi stories that are gonna be tied in to the site and can use some help from folks. I need someone to help with police procedures and other things as they arise. I will be posting some chapters here soon to get feedback. I want it constructive, but I want it honest as well.

So, keep the flame going because Love Doesn't Have To Die When We Do.

New addition to second store

2007-02-13T04:51:14Z

Totally waste of company time:

and

Shirts here, too!

New Shirt designs!

2007-01-04T01:03:48Z

And even more to come!

Yeah, will be changing the text on the short sleeved shirts to read Dead Man's Chest.

The long sleeve concept is also a bit difficult to see from the 3d render, but the upper arm has a tattoo on the bone. Both sleeves have the arm bones with the HnR logo on the left breast.

The short-sleeved shirts:

View Poll: Place the logo

Did it here, too!

2006-12-14T01:54:53Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, hopelessnecro sent to me...

Twelve andrewduckers drumming

Eleven onceupons piping

Ten seabats a-leaping

Nine bakabois dancing

Eight suzeles a-milking

Seven ashbets a-swimming

Six zanzaras a-laying

Five ochi-i-i-ibisanxenvys

Four amasis_bakuras

Three cmpriests

Two t-shirts

...and a goth in a pear tree.

The site is now live, too!

2006-12-10T23:12:23Z

The official hopeless necRomantic site is now live.

The content management system is freaky, requiring way toooooo many things done with internet explorer. If anyone out there knows how to mirror my lj blog there, let me know. The blogging system there only allows text input thru ie.

The css works for Mozilla and IE 7. Any people using others let me know how it checks.

The blogging system there also has no request for signup. again with the lj feed question.

A word from our muse....

2006-11-21T03:59:56Z

I received this in my email today:

Darrell,
I loved these! Glad I was able to provide some inspiration. Necromancer is a such a great word--far better than the humdrum "medium" or "spiritualist"
All the best,
Kelley

Yes, the woman who penned the books that inspired this whole artistic wierdness likes me...hey, mikey, she likes me!

Okay, she likes the concept and images...close enuff!

For those of you not in the know, I came up with the idea for the designs reading books by Kelley Armstrong (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com) that cover the Women Of The Otherworld. Strong women. Cool women. Strong stories. Cool stories.
The comment above was really from her. It was a response to an email I sent asking her to view the pics and thanking her for her inspiration.

Made my day.

Contest

2006-11-19T03:09:29Z

Okay, here's the deal on the contest:

1. Period for entries: November 15th, 2006, through Midnight December 10th, 2006.

2. Ideas can be text or image.

3. All ideas will be made into images by midnight Dec 15th. Voting will start the 16th.

4. Winner will be by unanimous decision. Any ties are decided on by ME.

5. First prize is a free t-shirt from the shop.

Thanks.

Domain registration cancelled!!!

2006-11-18T06:08:28Z

As I stated in my last post, I had registered the domains hopelessnecro.com and hopelessnecromantic.com to be front doors for the shop. (That would help everybody to see the images more clearly.) I get home from a long day of work to read that my money had been refunded and my hosting and registration and all that jazz had been cancelled.

The fun continues.

Film at 11.

Need more ideas for advertising for xmas stuff.

The Shop!

2006-11-17T03:53:58Z

Pick a graphic and see the items!

FEEDBACK, SEYMOUR!!!! (I know, bad pun.)

Give me feed back, though. All of it: the snide, the mean, the constructive even!
Be advised that I am limited to the shop layout for now.

Have registered the domains hopelessnecro.com and hopelessnecromantic.com today. The shorter one redirects you to the longer name, so once that goes online I'll let all know. I'm even gonna learn how to post this blog there!

Go check it out. NOW!

Update on it all!!!!

2006-11-16T04:43:52Z

Sorry for being behind.

The shirt I ordered came in. The design quality is AWESOME! (No modesty here.) The problem is that it was too large. Wifey and I have reworked the originals to be the best size for each type of shirt. I will have them finished uploading this weekend.

That's right, we open for business in time for the Holiday rush!

So, in that light, vein, artery, whatever...we are looking for ideas for christmas designs for emailing or whatever to mail out to make folks aware. First idea I had was to have Grim (the guy in the icon) wearing a Santa beard and driving a decorated, horse-drawn hearse.

So, let's hear the ideas and we'll have a poll for them. winner will get the shirt of choice.

Oh, yeah. The shop is now carrying black, canvas sneakers, too. Trying to find out what type of graphic is needed. MUST CARRY THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First shirt

2006-10-29T21:43:48Z

I've ordered a shirt from the store to check quality of print and shipping. It was mailed Saturday. Hopefully this will be right so the shop can open.

The store, boss, the plane...er the store

2006-10-18T22:11:41Z

The shop is currently being populated. Problems with PayPal are holding up some parts.

It can be viewed here or by entering the url http://hopelessnecromantic.spreadshirt.com

We won't be allowing orders until we get a shirt or two from there to check their quality and service.

We have more ideas to come than just more tees.

Stay tuned and give input.

edited to appease the female godling.

Negative Space

2006-10-15T06:49:04Z

There is now a myspace.com profile for this at http://www.myspace.com/hopelessnecro.

Care or not.

I did it for presence and marketing. Will not likely be posting there except to copy/paste the same info from here.

A new look heading into the final stretch

2006-09-11T02:09:24Z

As the shop gets closer to opening, we're also getting this closer to working with the whole project.

We're thinking of using this account to fuel the entire project.

Please let us know your thoughts and comments toward this idea.