Someone I knew moved to Prague for a while and came back with disturbing skills in cursing and afflicting people. Back then I didn't know about the occult, so I had figured he just had a bad experience that changed his personality for the worse, making contact with him toxic. Only in hindsight have I realized that he probably went to Prague specifically to train in some kind of black magic.

A few days ago I watched a film about Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, a Prague occultist during the wars who was very learned and very into black magic. That left me wondering whether Prague is known as a center for occult teachings? The Western focus in the West and the English-speaking bias in the English-speaking world have provided me with very little information about Eastern European or Slavic occult traditions. Do you know whether Prague was ever a major hub of occult activity?

Do you know if Prague now has the kind of reputation for dark sorcery that could have enticed a profoundly disturbed American to move there in search of some sort of apprenticeship or initiation? Whatever caused it, he came back from that sojourn so toxic that I stopped all interaction with him, so I can't exactly ask him if he went to study demonolatry or something. Plus, asking him would surely draw his hateful attention back on me, which is not something I ever want to have to experience again!

— Christophe