Cornell Prof Accidentally Summons Satan
In what is now being termed "a freakish accident" an associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at Cornell inadvertently summoned the Prince of Darkness to make a rare appearance over the weekend. The incident occurred at an unknown location on campus during the course of a departmental Halloween party. Personnel from the Cornell campus police, IPD and IFD were called to the scene to deal with the 'disturbance.'
"I had come across, you know, this old manuscript in the course of researching devil worship in early medieval Europe. It was written in a very archaic form of Hungarian but we finally broke it down." Prof. Wikingtoad explained in an interview from his campus office this afternoon. "It has something to do with an incantation of some sort. Calling Beelzebub back from his centuries' long sleep, something like that. Hey, how did I know? I thought it would be a goof to pretend to be serious and recite this chant during the party -- just to freak out the graduate assistants. "
Observers at the party recall witnessing a sudden burst of fire and smoke in one corner, and a foul,overpowering odor like 'brimstone' permeating the room. Prof. Wikingtoad continued, "Suddenly there's this huge seven foot tall daffy looking fellow standing there, staring at us. At first we thought it was one of the new teaching assistants trying to show off with a clever costume. But then we realized that this character smelled like --well, you know like a backed up toilet. And he was talking in a language and no one in the room had a clue to what he was saying. Have you ever seen the movie The Exorcist? When the little girl on the bed, Linda Blair, starts babbling in like some ancient Babylonian dialect? That's what this guy sounded like. It's at that point when we realized we might have a problem on our hands."
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