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psychology of witchcraft --- witch trials --- Joe McCarthy --- hysteria --- Satanic cults --- child abuse --- witch-hunts --- Salem --- Europe

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Satanism --- the Satanic underground --- crime --- Satanic crimes --- religion --- ritual violence --- students --- Satanic cults --- psychology --- belief

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This book will interest those who have already made some study of the subject of witchcraft but will also intrigue the educated non-specialist. Closely reasoned, it is also written with a rare wit, which makes it difficult to put down.

Witchcraft. --- Devil. --- Beelzebub --- Beelzebul --- Lucifer --- Satan --- Satanael --- Satanail --- Demonology --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Witchcraft --- Satanism --- History. --- Black Mass --- Devil-worship --- Satanic cults --- Worship of Satan --- Cults --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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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 found that they were without foundation. Her detailed analysis of a number of specific cases, and an extensive review of the literature, revealed no evidence of devil-worship. She concludes that the child witnesses come to believe that they are describing what actually happened to them, but that adults are manipulating the accusations. She draws parallels with classic instances of witchcraft accusations and witch-hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe, and shows that beneath the hysteria there is a social movement, which is fostered by a climate of social and economic insecurity. Persuasively argued, this is an authoritative and scholarly account of an emotive issue.

Ritual abuse --- Satanism --- Violence rituelle --- Satanisme --- Occult crime investigation --- Occult crime --- Great Britain --- Ritual abuse - Great Britain. --- Satanism - Great Britain. --- Occult crime - Great Britain. --- Occult crime investigation - Great Britain. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Criminal investigation --- Crime --- Black Mass --- Devil-worship --- Satanic cults --- Worship of Satan --- Cults --- Occultism --- Abuse, Ritual --- Ritual crime --- Satanic ritual abuse --- Offenses against the person --- Rituals

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demonic conspiracy --- abuse --- history --- the 1980s --- America --- satanic cults --- conspiracy theories --- child abuse --- history of religion --- the early Christian world --- early modern Europe --- postcolonial Africa --- myths --- demonology --- demons --- temples --- prophets --- exorcists --- witches --- possession --- secularism --- religiousness --- Satanic conspiracy --- maleficent religion --- rituals --- evil rites --- perversion --- mimetic performance