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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: Literature |
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The earliest modern account of Satanic ritual abuse can be found in Freud's letters regarding his therapeutic work with a patient named Emma Eckstein. Eckstein described to Freud experiences similar to the ritual abuse survivors of the last few decades, which included sexual abuse and ritual bloodletting. Freud was so disturbed by these disclosures that he theorised "we may have before us a residue of a primaeval sexual cult".
A more recent account of ritual Satanic torture was the book Michelle Remembers, written by Michelle Smith and her psychiatrist (and later husband) Lawrence Pazder and published in 1980. It was accompanied by features in People magazine and the National Enquirer, as well as numerous appearances on radio and television. Smith claims to have memories of seeing ritual human sacrifice, various forms of torture, and contact with supernatural beings. She has not produced corroborating evidence of these allegations, and both of Michelle's sisters and her father have denied everything in her book.
This book was followed in 1987 by Nightmare: uncovering the strange 56 personalities of Nancy Lynn Gooch authored in collaboration by Gooch, Emily Peterson and Lucy Freeman; and in 1989 by Suffer the Child by psychologist Judith Spencer, who described a patient with similar memories. Both of these books were best-sellers.
Lauren Stratford's 1988 Satan's Underground, which detailed her supposed childhood Satanic abuse, was the first book (aside from the 1965 novel Rosemary's Baby) to describe in detail allegations that cultists force young women to serve as "breeders" of babies raised for sacrificial purposes.
Stratford's account is one of the more thoroughly investigated claims of such abuse. Lauren claimed to have given birth to three children in her teens and early twenties. Yet, none of her friends, relatives, or teachers recalled these births or ever seeing her pregnant. However, they did recall her engaging in self-mutilation, while Lauren claimed that her scars were the product of her torture at the hands of Satanists. The year of her father's death was also inconsistently reported: Stratford claimed it was 1983 while the official record and all other testimony pointed to 1965 as the correct date. The team of journalists who discovered these inconsistencies published them in Cornerstone magazine as Satan's Sideshow in 1990. Satan's Underground was subsequently withdrawn from print by its publishers.
In her book Ghost Girl (1991), child psychologist Torey Hayden writes about a girl named "Jadie" who attended her class for mentally ill children. Jadie repeatedly spoke about participating in events which may have been either satanic ritual abuse, or a series of films about same in which she had taken part. The book's focus is not ritual abuse, but rather the difficulty professionals have in interpreting bizarre or unusual behavior. Authorities never discovered the truth about Jadie's claims, but she was eventually taken away from her parents and placed in a foster home. The book was a source in a case of false accusations of incest and ritual murder in Sweden in 1999.
A 1995 German book Vier Jahre Hölle und Zurück (Four Years of Hell and Back), by an author using the pseudonym "Lukas", describes purported first-hand experiences of a teenager who inadvertently became a member of a Satanist sect and later escaped. He wrote that he was subjected to various forms of torture and was forced to commit crimes. |
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Aiden
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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There is no satan, so where are these dark people drawing their power from??? |
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bitterbuck1 Moderator
Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3963 Location: Arizona, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Aiden wrote: | There is no satan, so where are these dark people drawing their power from??? |
I do believe there is a devil\satan. |
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Aiden
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:35 am Post subject: |
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bitterbuck1 wrote: | Aiden wrote: | There is no satan, so where are these dark people drawing their power from??? |
I do believe there is a devil\satan. |
That's cool. Not I though. It would be very agitating to have some fallen angel at your side always trying to scare you off. |
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Tana
Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 70 Location: Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: |
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well surely even if they is no satan ( in some peoples opinions ) they is still dark energy around because of all the bad people that pass on etc ... im just guessing ! |
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bitterbuck1 Moderator
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Cool avatar Tana! |
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Tana
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks :)
i found it on photobucket |
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bitterbuck1 Moderator
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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