Apparently, David Bowie wasn’t exactly all there during the late 70’s, and turned to witchcraft as a remedy for his near psychotic breakdown.
Author Marc Spitz alleges in his new book entitled Bowie: A Biography, that the Thin White Duke wholeheartedly believed supernatural forces were out to get him, and boned up on the subject in search of answers to his paranormal dilemma.
“Bowie would sit in the house with a pile of high-quality cocaine atop the glass coffee table, a sketch pad and a stack of books,” Spitz wrote. “…Using this and more arcane books on witchcraft, white magic and its malevolent counterpart, black magic, as rough guides to his own rapidly fragmenting psyche, Bowie began drawing protective pentagrams on every surface.”
According to Spitz, an overly paranoid Bowie sunk deep into depression and suffered from hallucinations.
“Increasingly Bowie was convinced there were witches after his semen,” he wrote. “They were intent on using it to make a child to sacrifice to the devil, essentially the plot to Roman Polanski’s 1968 supernatural classic Rosemary’s Baby.”
Concerned he would be milked for his precious bodily fluid by sex-crazed harlots (I’m fairly certain he never complained in the past), Bowie visited Walli Elmlark, a prominent figure in the Wiccan community.
“Elmark wrote a series of spells and incantations out for Bowie as he continued to wrestle with the forces of darkness,” Spitz wrote.
