Synthesizing the evidence for magic and witchcraft in 16th-century Scotland, this book profiles unpublished manuscripts, 19th- and early-20th-century transcriptions, and passing remarks in the histories of shires and boroughs. Preliminary suggestions are made about how these sources can be interpreted, so that nature scholars of Scottish witchcraft in particular will be able to more easily construct their theories with the analyses provided.

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.

NEW BOOK: THE SATANIC CONSPIRACY: THE SPECTER HAUNTING MANKIND CONTACT THE AUTHOR: (617) 291-5044 / [email protected] A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness is a Rabbinic saying derived from the Talmud and this applied to the identification and exposure of Satan and the satanic influence both within each of us and in our societies. Veteran radio host and author Charles Moscowitz describes this influence as a satanic conspiracy which, he claims, lurks within the shadows of history from ancient times until the present. Satanism is a rejection of God and creation and, as such, a rejection of that which is good, natural, moral and real. Just as mob syndicates form secret criminal societies, the satanic conspiracy thrives within various secret societies which advance unnatural and satanic political and social agendas. Such societies, which form informal interlocking relationships with each other in a web that stretches across the globe and which consist of both conscious and unwitting elites in politics, business, culture and even in religion, have reached a critical mass today due to technology and an international and interlocking concentration of wealth. The Satanic Conspiracy untangles the satanic web, the conspiracy of gentlemen, by identifying the satanic influence within each of us and within the organizations and societies that we establish. Moscowitz utilizes a simple mathematical formula to prove the existence of God and how humanity might have a chance at identifying and checking the enemy of God and truth, the satanic influence.

"A best-seller, Michelle Remembers was the first book written on the subject of satanic ritual abuse and is an important part of the controversies beginning in the 1980s regarding satanic ritual abuse and "recovered" memory. The book has subsequently been discredited by several investigations which found no corroboration of the book's events, and that the events described in the book were extremely unlikely and in some cases impossible. ... Soon after the book's publication, Pazder was forced to withdraw his assertion that it was the Church of Satan that had abused Smith when Anton LaVey (who founded the church years after the alleged events of Michelle Remembers) threatened to sue for libel"--Wikipedia.

Arguing that existing perspectives on contemporary Iran have not fully grasped the significant role of culture in Iran, this book examines modern culture and media in Iran through a wide range of topics.