In a small southern town, the godfearing churchgoers have a terrible secret. They are the followers of Satan, whose rituals prey on the poor, the weak, and the young. This is the true story of Joe Warren, the High Priest who reigned in the town of Lathrop for over 30 years, and who devoutly continued the legacy of torture, murder, and sexual abuse ...
A belief in fairies mixes with 19th-Century Anglo-Irish politics in this study of the death by burning of a woman believed to be possessed and the subsequent trial of her husband and others involved in the act. The event was used to stir up Anti-Irish sentiment and to argue against independence.
The first comprehensive recovery book to address the issues surrounding satanic cult ritual abuse--what it is, what the signs are, how to recover from it, and what is being done to combat this growing problem.
A journalist and a lawyer team up to explore ritual-abuse cases, tracing the development of theories about sexual abuse, giving examples such as the McMartin preschool case, to show the deficiencies in social services and police work that provide a "ritual-abuse industry." The authors offer specific recommendations, as well as delineating their ...
On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil, which involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ...
This text provides insights into the experiences of ritual abuse survivors and their efforts to find healing through psychological treatment. It offers revelations about existing cults, and attention is given to the diagnoses dissociative identity disorder often found among ritual abuse survivors.
Based on extensive research, interviews, and her own personal experiences as a ritual abuse survivor, Oksana has written a compassionate and comprehensive healing guide that fully explains what ritual abuse is, confronts its long-term effects, and helps readers through the recovery process.
Ritual abuse, perpetrated by secretive cults within groups as diverse as Christian sects, Satanic worshipers, and even day-care providers, often involves the drugging, torture, rape, and exposure of children to animal or human sacrifice. Smith's courageous work offers clear insights and hard facts about this most underestimated form of child abuse.
This text looks at extent of satanic cults and asks if there is a correlation between satanism and child abuse. The authors bring together researchers in forensic psychiatry, multiple personality and dissociative disorders, traumatic stress, and religious studies, as well as an FBI agent and two ritual abuse survivors, to offer a balanced view.
In the 1980's, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to ...
This fascinating discussion of modern demonology focuses on our ability to differentiate the physical world, with its mechanical laws, from the inherently less predictable psychological realm of thoughts and beliefs. McGrath points out that this ability was a hard-won historical development, and today must be learned in childhood through education ...
In a small southern town, the godfearing churchgoers have a terrible secret. They are the followers of Satan, whose rituals prey on the poor, the weak, and the young. This is the true story of Joe Warren, the High Priest who reigned in the town of Lathrop for over 30 years, and who devoutly continued the legacy of torture, murder, and sexual abuse ...
Five-year-old Allison is one of a group of children who are abused and subjected to horrible rituals at a perverse day care center, but with therapy and her parents' love she begins the healing process.
Explains how sexuality and blood sacrifice have been used in both religious ritual and ritual abuse. Using a number of victims' stories to illustrate his conclusions, Lockwood draws the connection between ritual abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder as well as offering readers the resources needed to handle the problems associated with it.
Sergeant Thomas O'Neil - fearless and unbeatable fighter pilot, deadly spy and ruthless killer. Lieutenant Rick Shaw - leader of an elite anti-terrorist unit, he is a tactical specialist with intensive training in high-powered weapons and jets. But Thomas and Rick hid an amazing secret - they were really Cheryl and Lynn Hersha, two sisters taken ...
Allegations of satanic child abuse became widespread in North America in the 1980s. Shortly afterwards, there were similar reports in Britain of sexual abuse, torture and murder, associated with worship of the Devil. Professor Jean La Fontaine, a senior British anthropologist, conducted a two year research project into these allegations, which ...
Present the shocking true story of the murder of fifteen-year-old Elyse Pahler by three classmates, who drugged, raped, tortured, and stabbed her to death as a human sacrifice in the name of Satan. Original.
The legalities of particular religious practices depend on many factors, such as the type of occult or religious activity, the current laws, and the intention of the individual practitioner. Written by the director of the Institute for the Research of Organized and Ritual Violence, Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes is the ...
Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home-cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. HUMAN SACRIFICE investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and ritual killings. Jimmy Lee Shreeve draws on police ...
The "Politics and Experience of Ritual Abuse" offers insight into why ritual abuse has become such a contested issue, while enabling the reader to explore the meaning of 'ritual abuse' through the accounts of those who claim direct experience. Drawing on her research with adults, who identified themselves as survivors, the author argues that the ...
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