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50 Witchcraft, Magic and Satanism

Witchcraft, Magic

and Satanism

Continued from Page 31

In the middle of the 17th century an opposition
movement began to surface, particularly in
urban centres.
The intellectual class which was
basically philosophers, writers and doctors
found these punishments to be excessive. It was
pointed out that people would confess to
practically anything being under torture, so, how
valid were their confessions?
In 1692, the most famous witch trial of
all was held in Salem, Massachusetts, in the
United State where twenty women were
executed following a speedy trial.
Very early in the morning, April 12th In the middle ages and during the Renaissance
The case came to a close in the fall of
1984, a prowler broke into the luxurious home period, these types of crime were rare indeed.
1692 when the accused admitted, under torture,
of Arthur Irwin in Scarborough, Ontario. The twentieth century changes that.
that they had participated in Black Masses also
The intruder crept silently into each Since the 1970s Satanic crimes have
attended by the Governor’s wife, a woman
room pocketing trinkets here and there along the been on the rise At an alarming rate. According
above reproach.
way. When he got to the basement, he found to books written on the subject, these killers are
Seeds of doubt became to be planted.
Irwin’s shotgun . He loaded it with ammunition on the top of police Wanted Lists, even above
The confessions which seemed highly
and went back upstairs, where he shot Joyce and the terrorist threat.
unlikely put an end to the witch hunt.
Arthur Irwin in the head. According to John Robert Colombo, a
That trial of Salem witches had a huge
Their daughter didn’t get off any easier. Canadian author and anthologist, “’Michelle
impact both in America and Europe.
She received a shot in the chest. Remembers’ which was published in 1980, is a
More and more people began to wonder
The intruder then returned to the master fascinating memoir of a woman who claims that
how real the all edged devilish behaviours
bedroom and cut off Arthur Irwin’s head. she observed and was abused by devil
actually were.
Much later that day, the local police worshippers. This came out because a woman
In the first half of the 18th century,
received a phone call from a woman. Her went to see a prominent west coast psychiatrist
legislators reviewed the laws that made
teenage son had told her that earlier in the day, named Lawrence Pazder, and Dr, Padzer
witchcraft a crime.
one of his friends, Scott Mathers, had invited regressed her hypnotically to discover what her
Most of the 1,604 articles in effect in
him on a gruesome tour of a house in problems might be, maybe if she had some
England and North America were reviewed and
Scarborough where they had seen three dead memory of them, and she recalled no end of
replaced by less repressive measures.
bodies, including a man who had been torture in the hands of Satanists and devil
The great witch-hunt was finally coming
decapitated. worshippers, circles drawn in the sand,
to an end.
When detectives arrived at the Irwin laminated curses, of suffering as a result of this,
It was the age of enlightenment and the
home, they were horrified at what they found. images of upside down crucifixes, and so on.”
civilized world sought to redefine itself through
At that point, the victims had been dead Professor Stephen Kent from the
philosophy and reason.
for about 15 hours. University of Alberta said, “In many ways, those
The big question, of course, is how many
The detectives went to Mathers stories became the basis for much of the modern
people were actually executed during the witch
apartment to arrest the 15-year-old murderer. so-called ‘Satanic Panic.’ Subsequently, Dr
hunt?
While he was being questioned, the Pazder married his client and people raised some
In his novel, :”The Da Vinci Code,” Dan
young man volunteered the fact he had gone to a eyebrows about that and some independent
Brown estimates that 9 million women were
shopping mall after the murders to get his ears individuals investigated aspects of the story that
burned at the stake.
pierced. He admitted that he worshipped the Michelle had claimed that appeared in the book
We have to keep in mind that this was a
devil and “Eddie” the mascot for the rock group, and concluded that those events could not have
novel. Nowadays, huge figures like that just
“Iron Maiden.” happened. It was impossible that the events were
don’t hold water.
During the course of the criminal just incorrect.”
Specialists have been working from one
investigation, it was discovered that Mathers The publication of “Michelle
region to the next and have been able to
was also studying the Satanic Bible by Anton Remembers” resulted in a “Satanic Panic.”
determine how many people were burned at the
LaVey and had once carved a pentacle on his The cults gruesome rituals were
stake. Nowadays most specialists agree that
oven abdomen. considered a hidden danger and rumors spread
about 110,000 people were brought to trial and
Mathers claimed that he did not know as if they were the truth.
about 60,000 were burned at the stake.
the victims and did not have any intention of According to Professor Kent, in
That’s a pretty high number when you
killing them but once he was inside the Irwin the 1980s and into the 1990s, there were
consider the fact that the population was a lot
house, he was afraid of getting caught in the act. multiple allegations around the western world
smaller than it is today and naturally, the
That was when he decided to kill the entire about ritual crimes being committed in the name
majority of individuals accused of being a witch
family and cut off Arthurs head to please the of Satan and these crimes involved allegations
were women.
devil. including cannibalism, child molestation, sexual
Although the end of the witch trials
In the famous witch hunts crimes assaults, the eating of feces, urine drinking and
marked the return of order to a society gone
committed in the name of the devil were far animal mutilation and killing of animals.
astray, it did not eliminate the presence of the
more imaginary than real, but there was nothing
devil.
imaginary about the Scott Mathers case.
Satan continued to pray on the mind of
Crimes are unfortunately quite real and (Continued on Page 51)
people in other ways, pushing them to commit
fall into the distinct category of Satanic Crimes.
the most abominable acts.