The incredible return of Satanism in the United States in 1983 … nearly three centuries of Salem witches!

The case of the witches of Salem (1692 to 1693) was not enough.

The accusations of witchcraft launched by two hysterical teenagers, Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams, were heard in 150 counties, 150 innocent people were arrested and, one year later, two courts sentenced to death "by sorcery" bench: fourteen women and five men.

The wave of demonism (Adoration of Belcebú) was used only under the rope to hide personal hatreds and economic struggles.

But also for the art: Arthur Miller based in this case his luminous play "The Witches of Salem": metaphor against the persecution of alleged enemies in the United States by witch hunter Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI forever.

Almost three centuries later, believe it to go!in the 1980s, under the presidency of Ronald Reagan – from November 1981 to January 1989-, an episode ARS (satanic ritual abuse) opened the door of the phenomenon called "moral panic".
This, sprawling, has embraced the whole country and crossed the seas to other nations of the world …

In 1980, while Reagan was testing the chair in the oval room where he was about to arrive, Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder published the book "Michelle remembers: a true story of Satanism"…, and opened the tiger cage.

Michelle Smith It was his patient, his lover and finally his wife.
According to Pazder, in 1976, she went to her office.

"He was suffering from severe depression," the psychiatrist revealed, "apparently caused by a miscarriage".

He opted for the hypnotic regression method, with results often false or vague, and seconded by a battery of psychotropic drugs.
According to him, "recovery of memory".

A not insignificant detail: Pazder was a man more than just looking at the occult …
Finally, her conclusion was commensurate with her belief: "Apparently Michelle, a child, was forced to attend secret ceremonies by her parents, Jack and Virginia Proby, between 1954 and 1955, at age five! worship Satan"

And that was not all: the report swore that during this ritual the girl was raped several times, saw murders and was bathed in human blood and guts, "in a coven of fifty-five days, interrupted by the appearance of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the Archangel".

A horror movie … with a happy ending.

Adapted to a bestseller and his collection.

And suddenly, the badtail "Satanic ritual abuse"he used with imagination in all the bars of the country …, in competition with the bourbon Kentucky Straight and His Majesty the Dry Martini with two olives.

The wave was already driven by a hurricane …

The second mecha was lit by Geraldo Rivera (Geraldo, the popular TV presenter), who warned mondo, lirondo and national reach:
–The United States has more than a million Satanists!
Of course, Ronald Reagan, highly voted by evangelical churches, was trapped and heard desperate voices:
-The twenty-first century will come with the signs of revelation!
He is born "Satanic panic"

This has come to delirium. In 1990, denunciations against diabolical sects – and their substitutes – exceeded one thousand.

Meanwhile, Pazder, only in Italy, he had almost charged a million and a half euros for the sale of your bookor, in addition to the baggage in his new office: adviser in the investigations of unholy sects, tried to meet the high prelates of the Vatican – another kick for, but the shot is far from the baton.
However, the incredible stories unfolded like a ball in the World Finals.

Men and women with white-painted faces, dresses up to their feet, and some … hooded, who stabbed a baby and smeared themselves with blood, and who also stabbed the girls' daggers, pulling in his belly an inverted cross …

The attack did not take long to fall Metal music and the belief that their notes and letters, deciphered, contained subliminal satanic messages that drove suicide.

So much so that the leaders of some gangs went to court, although there was never any evidence.

However, how to forget the case of traction?
In 1982, private detective Patricia Pulling, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, was on the verge of madness. His son,Lee Irving Pulling was shot in the chest with his mother's gun.

A death announced. The young man killed animals (his mother's rabbits and neighbors' cats) and, on moonlit nights, screamed in the patio of his house.

The detective rejected the rational and adopted the fantasy:

-My son is shot after the spell that was thrown at him by a partner in a game of "Dungeons and Dragons"

And that did not stop there. He founded an badociation against games that "are tools of satanic sects to recruit bodies and souls".

Among speeches, pamphlets, radio and television broadcasts with a wide audience, he managed to form a legion of electronic preachers, journalists, candidates for the post of prosecutor, psychic fraud and even Jack Chick, the bad designer of the far right religious.
The last cross without a cross at the front …

But there was always the last and endless chapter.

Year: 1983. Scenario: The McMartin Nursery. A daycare in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles.

Large population, was founded and ruled by three generations of McMartin without shade.

But suddenly, Judy Johnson, the mother of one of the children, accused guard Ray Buckley:

Wick turned on for the detonation of the scandal. And aggravating: the accused was the son of Peggy McMartin, the administrator and grandson of Virginia McMartin, founder and owner.

The suspicion, like a dense black coat, fell on all the staff.
According to the applicant – died of alcoholism three years later and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia –
-The carer and his companions They sodomized and tortured my son. They dig around the house: it is full of tunnels for those who took the children in their rituals.

The lawsuit against the McMartins … lasted seven years! One of the longest in the history of the country.

One of the children, during tests, pointed out the actor Chuck Norris as one of the witnesses of satanic ceremonies!

As a result, of the 400 children, 360 said that Buckley and his companions raped them and used them for satanic ceremonies. But none showed signs of badual badault or torture.

Like three centuries ago, the witch tam-tam of Salem has been repeated: although without hardships, it does not shut down completely before three years, in nurseries and similar centers of the four cardinal points of the country.

Without proof … but Ray Buckley spent seven years behind barsthe nursery did not reopen and they demolished it.

The family lost until the last dollar.

It was, it is said, the end of the "satanic panic".

But what began as a drama ended in comedy … or in grotesque.

Year 2015. There is a little time …

Suddenly, in Detroit, instead of exposing a four-wheeled gem worthy of the legend of his great models …, it was announced the presentation of a sculpture of the devil.

The ceremony, reserved for people over 18 for "a night of chaos, noise and debauchery", was communicated in secret, by mail and against payment.

They had it in a secret place. An industrial building next to the Detroit River.
Material: bronze Height: 2.95 meters. Weight: one and a half tons. Description: torso of muscular man, legs and goat head, beards, horns and wings. On the forehead, a pentagram. In the womb, the stick of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. Point to the sky with the index finger and the main fingers of the right hand. They also call it Baphomet.
Lucien Greaves, a staff member of the sect, knew little about marketing.

He tried to present it in a restaurant, but the guests – about fifty – threw it to the stone!

Sad weekend for devotees: They ended up screaming ¡Viva Satan! in the corner of a suburb.

And it was useless to look for one's own fixed abode. Several states have rejected it and, after years of litigation, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has declared: "The State Constitution prohibits the use of property from the property. State in favor of a religion. "

With the horns elsewhere …

But these regressions of modern times make us doubt anything.
More like chapters from an old and famous 60s book: "Natural history of disparate", from the American writer Bergen Evans.

Like the immortal Ray Bradbury.