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Richard Raiswell

@devilprof.bsky.social

Historian of the demonic. Cats, some cricket.

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He got his name right, so there’s that

25.02.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, part of the point of Magna Carta was to prevent the king from being financially independent.

07.01.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Read this about the condition of the press in Weimar by 1930. Think its resonance speaks for itself

06.01.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t the word β€œβ€kidnapped”?

04.01.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, just like the Madagascar plan the German foreign office floated around in 1940 to β€œresettle” all Europe’s Jews there as an SS-run Jewish homeland.

30.12.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Come to Canada. The federal government cut the number if visas for foreign students by a huge percentage 2 years sgo. All Canadian universities now facing a funding crunch

20.11.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween πŸ‘»

Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.

Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

31.10.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 9

Congratulations, indeed! Always keen to join devil-related chats, too!

31.10.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But they don’t care

25.10.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it actually the MM? That’s in 3 books not two.

21.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have cats more deserving

19.10.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably Qataris will be deported by ICE if they leave the base

10.10.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think part of the rules of war stuff is so that the enemy doesn’t do the same to you.

30.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably, he’ll be deploying the army to prevent America’s pending defeat at the Ryder Cup, at this stage.

28.09.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That poor Von Trap family

22.09.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Catholics used to wait hundreds of years before making saints. That ensured that there was no one left alive to remember that the real guy was actually a prick. Ah, the good old days.

22.09.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And of course everything pumped through that foreign company will be captured by homeland security. There is no reason not to capture that data about future foreign leaders and what they have written. Nothing about which to be concerned there!

19.09.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

From the same people who brought you Pope Trump.

18.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you please build a wall separating yourself from Canada?

03.09.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friends who study all things demonic: For the CHA this coming June at UPEI, my colleagues and I are arranging sessions that explore aspects of devil belief & their consequences in any historical period, w/ any geographical focus. Please get in touch with @devilprof.bsky.social if you have questions!

03.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Could have hired a humanities graduate. They can write all by themselves

17.07.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have been talking about a satanic renaissance with @mikkibrock.bsky.social and @vetur.bsky.social but not quite the same

12.07.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. Perhaps history will have its revenge. But so what? He’ll remain chief until weeks before his death, staggeringly wealthy and ruining people’s lives. And nothing will happen. Nothing.

11.07.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably it smells like excrement.

01.07.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDelivering for the American people”? What? He’s a postie now?

30.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cowards

30.06.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a surprise. I am shocked.

27.06.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Evolution of Diabolical Witchcraft Belief, Part 1 Podcast Episode Β· The Thing About Witch Hunts Β· 05/21/2025 Β· 50m

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And then there a couple just on the Malleus maleficarum #hextag

24.06.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This’ll spark a terrorist attack in the US and then everyone will forget that the US provoked the attack. It’ll be that Reichstag moment

22.06.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been brilliant!

14.06.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0