liddell also claimed that the prominent occultist aleister crowley had been initiated into one of these nine covens as a young man. according to this account, crowley had been introduced to the coven in 1899 or 1900 by his magical mentor, allan bennett. liddell asserted that crowley was subsequently ejected from the coven for his misbehaviour. as evidence for these claims, he stated that his own grandfather had been present on three occasions at which bennett and crowley met with pickingill, and that he had seen a photograph in which the three figures are together. when asked to present this photograph for public scrutiny in 1977, liddell claimed that it was "not available"; when independently asked again in 1983, he asserted that it had been stolen by "interested parties".