By William Cole For Mailonline
Published: 20:14 BST, 15 April 2019 | Updated: 20:39 BST, 15 April 2019
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The ruined former-home of a real-life 'Wicker Man' and a legendary guitarist has been put for sale - for more than £500,000.
Boleskine House in Foyers on the banks of Loch Ness, Highlands, would prove to be ultimate renovation project after it was severely damaged by a fire four years ago.
The imposing Loch-side manor used to be owned by Aleister Crowley, who is said to have practiced black magic at the property between 1899 and 1933.
Boleskine House in Foyers on the banks of Loch Ness, which has been put up for sale, along with the surrounding estate, for £510,000
The home as it looked before it was ravaged by a fire in 2015
Born in Royal Leamingston Spa, Warwickshire in 1875, Crowley was an occultist, writer and mountaineer who rejected Christian doctrine and established Thelema.
Calling himself a prophet, he said he would be the one to guide humanity into the so-called 'Aeon of Horus' - an age of spiritual interest and self-realisation.
He died at the age of 72 in Hastings, East Sussex in 1947.
Some 23 year after his death, the home was
