Zoe Wassilko from Serecki
Countess Zoe Wassilko von Serecki (also Zoë Wassilko von Serecki , Wassilko von Serecki Zoé ) (born July 11, 1897 in Czernowitz ; † November 26, 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian parapsychologist and astrologer , long-time Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of the Sciences and President of the Austrian Astrological Society. She came from the high aristocratic family Wassilko von Serecki .
Life
Zoe was the daughter of Stephan Wassilko von Serecki and Rosa nee Freiin von Krauss . She never attended a public school, but received private tuition, grew up bilingual (German, Romanian) and received foreign language lessons in English and French as early as 1908. In 1910 she began a private study of astronomy, in 1911 that of high school mathematics and geometry. She finished both courses in 1917.
During the war from 1914 to 1918 she was also involved in the hospital of Archduchess Maria Josepha in the Augartenpalais , for which Zoe was awarded the Medal for Services to the Red Cross .
After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy, she stayed in Vienna with her parents.
From 1922 Zoë Wassilko von Serecki turned to the fields of parapsychology and astrology. From 1925 onwards she gave numerous lectures on these areas and made many trips abroad. She also wrote numerous books and articles.
Parapsychology
The countess became known for her research into parapsychological phenomena. Her prime case was the uncovering and research of the haunted case of Eleonora Zugun from Talpa (1925–1927), a Romanian peasant girl who was allegedly possessed by the devil, who suddenly developed clearly swelling scratches and then disappeared again without a trace. Furthermore, she was attested to have psychokinetic properties. She also portrayed the "Dracu", as she called him and who allegedly did this to her, in drawings. In 1926, at the invitation of Harry Price , Zoe traveled with the girl to London , where he examined her abilities and the number of times she performed. There is a film about this by Emelka with Eleonora, Zoe and the two leading German parapsychologists at the time, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich and Rudolf Tischner , which was shot in Munich in 1927 at the end of the study.
After several unsuccessful attempts, she founded the “Austrian Society for Psychological Research” in Vienna on December 2, 1927 with the physicist Hans Thirring . For 38 years she was the general secretary of this society (which did not exist during the Nazi era, but was re-established in 1946) and wrote numerous publications in the specialist journals for parapsychology of the time. The society still exists today under the name of the Austrian Society for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Science .
Countess Wassilko also introduced psychoanalytic aspects into the Zugun haunted case; her later published “Parents” book is written on a psychoanalytic basis.
astrology
She later turned to astrology. Zoe was Vice President of the Austrian Astrological Society (ÖAG) even before the Second World War. During the Nazi era, both companies were banned, after the war she re-founded the ÖAG - together with Wilhelm Knappich - and became its president in 1949. She held this office until 1974 when she resigned due to illness.
She was a committed advocate of traditional astrology, which claims that precise astrological forecasts are possible, and rejected both cosmobiology and psychological astrology.
In 1955 she submitted a protocol on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling .
Zoe Wassilko was a great animal lover. She kept cats all her life and was also active for a while in the Vienna Animal Welfare Association.
She is buried in the family grave in Vienna at the Grinzing cemetery.
Her pupil Sandor Belcsak, who was President of the Society from 1977 until his death in 1999, handed over numerous documents from the estate to Count Michael Wassilko von Serecki , a nephew, son of her cousin Georg, who continued astrology in her sense.
Fonts
- Der Spuk von Talpa, Beyer Verlag, Leipzig-Zurich-Vienna 1926, 62 pp.
- The trigonometric calculation of the house cusps according to Regiomontanus, Campanus and Placidus, Zenit, 1st cent. 1930
- Parents as they should be, Beyer Verlag, Munich, 1933
- Hints for the horoscope interpretation based on 21 examples (with loose insert: 21 example horoscopes recorded according to Placidus), Astrological Verlag Wilhelm Becker, Berlin-Steglitz, 1936;
- Nature and basis of the astrological forecast. Series "Astrological Study Books" of the Kosmobiosophische Gesellschaft e. V. Hamburg (ed.) 1953
- Why is the world changing? Baumgartner Verlag, Warpke / Billerbeck, 1957
- The pendulum in astrology, Baumgartner Verlag, Warpke / Billerbeck (Hanover), 1956.
- Astrological considerations on cancer, Baumgartner Verlag Warpke - Billerbeck (Hanover), 1956
- Tradition and progress in classical astrology, Austrian Astrological Society, Vienna, 1956
- Astrological Wisdom - A book of classical astrology for today's thinking people, Baumgartner Verlag, Warpke - Billerbeck (Hanover), without a year
literature
- Quality of Time, publication by the Austrian Astrological Society, Vienna 1987
- Peter Mulacz, Eleonore Zugun: the Re-Evaluation of a Historic RSPK Case , Journal of Parapsychology , 1999, 63/1: 15–45
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses Part B, 114th year, p. 536, 1941
- ↑ http://www.wegbegleiter.ch/wegbeg/elezugun.htm#bild01
- ^ Zoe Countess Wassilko von Serecki, Origin and Fate of Count Wassilko von Serecki in Quality of Time, publication by the Austrian Astrological Society, Vienna 1987
- ↑ The Haunted Case Eleonore Zugun (The »Spook of Talpa«) .
- ↑ Harry Price, "The Spukmedium Eleonore Zugun and his phenomena", Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie, No. 1, 1927, pp. 8-26.
- ↑ Harry Price, “Report on telekinetic and other phenomena in Eleonore Zugun”, Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie, H. 9, 1927, pp 540–559
- ↑ Peter Mulacz: History of Parapsychology in Austria
- ↑ Austrian Society for Parapsychology | Society
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Full text of the Wassilko Protocol at http://www.mayerling.de/arch_wassilko.htm
- ↑ cf. her privately owned portrait of E. Attems, where she is pictured with her cats
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wassilko von Serecki, Zoe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wassilko von, Zoë; Wassilko von Serecki, Zoé |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian parapsychologist and astrologer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1978 |
| Place of death | Vienna |