Ep. 45: Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic, pt. 1
Episode description
Hold onto your butts, because this ride is WILD. In part one of this insane two-part series, Hannah takes Katy back to the 1980's when fundamentalist Christianity revived a centuries-old bias and incited a panic around Satanic ritual abuse. Did you know that the devil only speaks in Dr. Suess-esque rhymes and in order to summon him you have to three-legged race with a child and then use said child as a compass?
Hear about Michelle, and her extraordinary "memories" of hanging out in a Satanic cult, drawing crosses on people in blood, accidentally ruining a good orgasm, and shaking snakes at people, all while ruining perfectly good devil-summoning rituals.
There was too much for just one episode, so make sure to listen next week for the thrilling conclusion to this modern moral panic!
Sources:
https://archive.org/stream/michelleremember00smit#page/292/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers
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