About the book: 2013 / History does not just keep many secrets. These secrets can sometimes, without exaggeration, be called terrible, because behind them is the blood shed by both the rulers and those who claimed the “title” of a sorcerer or magician; Quite often it was the blood of innocent people, slandered... The author of this book will help you understand (or, in any case, form your own opinion) in the history of the mysteriously disappeared “Templar gold” and the Flying Dutchman, Faust and Mussolini, the Inquisition and the oprichnina, which, according to a number of researchers, it was created as a kind of secret order... Sign of information products 16+ This book is not about the secrets of esoteric teachings and not about the history of witchcraft. Journalist Vitaly Germanovich Smirnov managed to find in the intricate labyrinths of historical information such stories that, without exaggeration, can be called “terrible secrets,” since they often turned into the shed blood of innocent people. The very diverse stories included in this book are united by one circumstance, which in itself is intriguing and fantastic: all of their heroes, who possessed real power, or who established themselves as sorcerers in the eyes of a gullible public, were corrupt politicians, executioners, maniacs hungry for blood - they all lived in “parallel worlds”. The hitherto unsolved mystery of the murder of Tsarevich Dimitri in Uglich, stories about vampires in Transylvania and African-American sorcerers in Haiti, even maritime folklore born in the vastness of the elements hostile to man - all this, according to the author, can be somehow understood only by recognizing the frightening reality " beyond the line of everyday life.