This small island off the edge of Scotland has quite a spiritual history. It was revered as a sacred place for ancient celts, druids, and even early Christians. Many religious ceremonies have taken place there and still do to this day. At some point after her death, Netta Fornario was reproduced along with other members of the Golden Dawn by Coronzon, through the application of Tarot-based grimoires, as part of her anti- Crowley countermeasures. [2] [3] Chronology [ ] Coronzon Arc [ ] Main article: Coronzon Arc In The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario, I have taken the scant facts around Netta's strange demise, that are available to even the most diligent researcher; including some of the wilder theories that surround the actual recorded events; and used them to create a Gothic story of my own. 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.”

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The nearest Met Office station - Tiree - didn't start recording anything other than monthly sunshine totals until 1931. They show that in November 1931, Tiree experienced a max temperature of 10.1°C and a minimum temp of 6.4°C; the monthly rainfall was 167.2mm and there were only 37.4 hours of sunshine in the month.)Also, there is something about parts of the rugged, beautiful northern Highlands of Scotland that induces people of a certain disposition to believe that it is a liminal zone between reality and the woo-woo lands. I lived for a couple of years on the Isle of Skye, and can attest that it attracts a Stonehenge/Glastonbury/ Avebury crowd. Others believe that Netta may have been pursued by somebody she had known in London, and there were rumours of her being seen in the company of a mysterious cloaked figure, shortly before her death. Could she have been having an affair? Either in London, or even on the island, it would certainly have complicated things.

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IN CONCLUSION: On going over a lot of this my gut feeling is that maybe Netta built up demons in her own mind. She had spent several weeks confined almost exclusively to her own company, spending her days in long, solitary walks, with only her own thoughts to occupy her. Now this of course can be a good thing. It would certainly be a boon to many creative people, and indeed Netta spent a lot of her time crouched over her typewriter, but very little remains of all her hard work. She seems to have resigned herself to this though. In fact, after a short spell in her room, she emerged and told Mrs MacRae that she had changed her mind, and that she would be staying indefinitely on the island. Netta’s sudden change of mood can seem baffling at first. I sometimes wonder if she had simply taken something as a “sign” that she was meant to stay on Iona. Someone like Netta would find symbolism in just about anything, and her belief in fate/destiny/karma would have been acutely strong. Hence her air of fatalism at this moment. When MacLean and MacNiven say she was between the loch and the " Machar", I'm going to proceed on the assumption that they used the Gaelic word machair, which means "... the dune grassland unique to Western Scotland and north-west Ireland. In Scotland, some Gaelic speakers use machair as a general term for the whole dune system, including the dune ridge, while others restrict its use to the extensive flat grasslands inland of the dune ridge." So, I'll interpret that to mean that Fornario was found somewhere between the beach/grass area to the south, and the loch to the north. Google Earth gives the distance between the southernmmost tip of the loch, and the sea edge of the south- and easternmost beach (just below and left of the word "Image"), as 970 yards.Netta became interested in the island of Iona after reading a story by her favorite author, William Sharp, which described the area around Loch Staonaig as one where the fairies roam free. Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.