Death on Iona: The Mysterious Death of Norah Fornario and the Search for Netta

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He raised many interesting issues, such as the point that Netta was missing for 2 whole days, which does seem odd on a small island. When Netta arrived on the island most of the summer lodgers were leaving, so accommodation was easy to find and she stayed with the MacRae family.

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Even though the island was only tiny and could be traversed completely in less than a day, it took this group two full days to locate Netta's lifeless body. Whittington-Egan's account mentions a number of items rarely cited in sensationalistic accounts of Fornario's last days - most particularly that Fornario had stayed at two locations on Iona during that last trip; she'd originally arrived with a second unidentified woman; she'd pretty obviously exhibited signs of extreme personal distress in the last day or two before disappearing; and that it was 'bitter cold' at the time she died. She was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1897, the daughter of Norah Edith Ling and Guiseppe Nicola Raimundo Fornario, an Italian doctor. I lived for a couple of years on the Isle of Skye, and can attest that it attracts a Stonehenge/Glastonbury/ Avebury crowd.Another sensationalist element was the mysterious cloaked figure, but again there is no evidence such a person ever existed, and he would certainly have stood out on a remote Scottish island at low season. Netta’s lack of practicality had let her down again (remember when she wanted to fast for 40 days), and this time it would cause her demise. Her behaviour on her last day suggests she was afraid to stay on the island, but at the same time resigned to it. This “alien” woman, who dressed in the fashion of the Arts and Crafts movement – with long cape and hand-woven tunic – settled into the house of someone only known as Mrs MacRae.

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Hence it would not surprise me at all if she was suffering from Type 1 diabetes, and that this was largely what her trip to Iona was all about – to try to harness the power of fairy magick to heal herself, even though (as MacGregor describes) she was clearly becoming increasingly unwell. These companies are brought together and the production funded by North by North-East, the Northern Scottish Touring Fund, and the tour within Argyll and Shetland is funded by Scotland’s Islands 2011. Loch Staonaig on Iona is a fairy hill on the road to the Machair, a well-known grassy knoll which island legend says is inhabited by fairies who play music to entice people into the fairy world. photo alone being presented in relation to Fornario (sometimes without much or any mention of Mathers). During the Crowley's Hazard invasion of the United Kingdom, Fornario was among the reproduced members of the Golden Dawn who confronted Aleister Crowley in the graveyard of Westminster Abbey.

What seems closest to the truth is the 1955 account by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor: this relied “on the testimony of two Ionan-dwelling friends Lucy Bruce and Iona Cammell”, the latter of whom wrote a (now-lost? I have a book which features this case - "Scotland's Unsolved Mysteries" by Richard Wilson (though presumably not that Richard Wilson). It shamelessly borrows from those classic stories that have gone before, to make a new play that is immersed in madness, murder, magic and decay, that has at its heart, a truly memorable character. She held a blackened silver accessory, [1] and apparently used a silver cross discolored pitch black.

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My theory is that a misogynistic local with deep-rooted Christian beliefs caught her in mid ceremony and killed her in a fit of rage. Iona itself certainly does look beautiful and an interesting place to visit if you're in to history. In this explanation, her suddenly blackened jewelry is a sign of acidic sweat, which could point to acidosis (a medical condition in which body fluids contain too much acid, and which can be caused by diabetes among other ailments). Bradford's wasteland has flowered again, perhaps as the City of Pyramids and yet The Abyss is never far off as there is, behind the fences of the new Bradford urban Garden, a deep drop in to the empty basin originally prepared for the new Bradford Canal which has not as yet come to pass and yet in the maze of Bradford's Garden Magic or mage-ick, perhaps there Lady Babalon and Thelema can be found still. And now to the desecration of the Horus Temple in Godwin Street, Bradford, befitting this piece as the apparent humility of the physical may also experience such a fate.A doctor injects himself with morphine in a guest house bedroom on Iona, confessing not to a god, but to the syringe.

The mysterious case of Netta Fornario on the Scottish Island

Medical experts have theorized that it’s very possible that Netta had ketoacidosis, a sometimes deadly condition in which there is a massive build-up of acid in your bloodstream.

Strangely enough, the writings of some religious monks is the foundation stone for a good number of magical philosophies and systems. MacRae immediately knew something was up, as the island was anything but safe to wander alone at night and sounded the alarm. Her unclothed body was lying on a large cross which had been cut out of the turf, apparently with a knife which was lying nearby.