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The year is 1607. A child has gone missing from a small English parish. Some whisper he has fallen in the river. Others say he’s been taken. There are no police to search, no telegraph to spread the alarm, no TV bulletin to circulate a picture. His family has nothing but their grief — and their faith. So they do what countless others did in those years: they carry their question to an astrologer. We explore the lives and fortunes of John Forman, William Lilly, Nostradamus and Evangeline Evans - controversial figures who made their names as beiing astrological authorities garnering massive followings. But there is a reason that forensic astrology is seen as pseudoscience to our modern eyes... S O U R C E S: Use of Forensic Astrology in Crime Fiction: A study of the works of Manjiri Prabhu Rakshanda Muzafar https://rubedo.press/propaganda/2020/3/26/william-lilly-and-the-plagues-of-london History of Astrology 2nd Edn. 2022 by Future Publishing Ltd https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/? https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adams-evangeline-smith-mrs-george-e-jordon-jr-1859-1933 Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England Keith Thomas https://www.history.co.uk/biographies/nostradamus Adams, Evangeline(8 February 1868–10 November 1932) William E. Burns William Lilly Great Fire of London https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/09/forensic-astrology-crime-solving.html1.
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