Question by LabGrrl is out of hospital: British Diabolism, ca 1985-book suggestions?
Britsh Diabolism, ca:1985…book suggestions….?
I’ve a cousin writing about British Diabolism (especially in the 1980s and 1990s) for an anthropology class, and since anthropology was one of my majors, she asked me for some book suggestions, especially “rated PG-13” ones.
Other than “The Velvet Glove” I am totally clueless about the subject….this is so not my field…..
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Footy- It’s not being a report monkey when someone creates new accounts to stalk you and you report them. If you let the bad guys be the only one who use the report button you let them win. I am not afraid to report actual violations, and I’m not going to be pressured into not doing so because i’m afraid you’ll call me a name.
Thanks for those who gave me the stuff on Satanism. Apparently they are very different things, but now I know that. Hehe.
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Answer by mommanuke
I would go to a site like Amazon and put British Diabolism in the search box.
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I know there was a mass scare in the 1980s over allegations of satanic child abuse in a village in Britain; dozens if not hundreds of children were taken into social care on pretexts like they’d made an inverted crucifix out of two cross lollipop sticks. Social workers asked them all manner of leading questions which built up into a case which sounded like some mass coven. The whole spiralled out of control and it was eventually realised they had no evidence whatsoever and these kids had been seperated from their families for no reason.
I don’t know if that’s quite what you’re looking for, but it’s certainly fascinating from an anthropological view; mass hysteria, scare tactics and fabricated evidence without either questioner or interviewee realising. Links to some of the details and a book suggestion by Amazon.
Perhaps no such tome exists, or can be found under a different search such as ‘devil worship’. If people behave like jerks, I say report them until their ears pop.
I found this:
http://www2.ull.es/congresos/conmirel/JENKINS.htm
http://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca/no11/devil.PDF
The impression I get is that there wasn’t really anything going on, but that fundies were trying to drive the discovery of the phenomenon.
Since I know something about the workings of Masonry, I know these folks are capable of inventing a lot of stuff out of whole cloth and they have a ready audience that will accept it as true, even though it’s not.
Don’t fall for their lies.