https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:57:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/285 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:53:47 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=285 In the summer of 1916, while staying in a New Hampshire cottage, Aleister Crowley crucified a frog that he had baptized Jesus of Nazareth. The man who called himself the Beast 666 offered it gold, frankincense and myrrh; he worshipped it as God incarnate and then arrested and charged it]]>