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The History of the Devil's Lantern

Monday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m.

Halifax Central Library, Halifax · Free

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Around the middle of the 17th century, practitioners in the black arts, as well as priests, began conjuring up ghosts to scare audiences using what became known then as the "Devil’s Lanterns" or "Lanterns of Fear." Over the next 300 years, what became known as "Magic Lanterns" were the main instrume

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