Leila Waddell

Leila Ida Nerissa Bathurst Waddell, also known as Laylah,, born Leila Ida Bathurst Waddell, was a violinist who became a famed Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley, and a powerful historical figure in magick and Thelema in her own right. While biographer Toby Creswell posited that Leila was part-Maori, he provides no evidence of this; in fact NSW birth deaths and marriages records show she was the granddaughter of John Crane and Janet McKenzie and John Waddell and Elizabeth McAnally.