Thanks to Justin Insanity for drawing our attention to this intriguing tome.
‘Evil Incarnate: Rumours of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History’
by Dr. David Frankfurter
Check out the blurb and tell me this doesn’t sound familiar:
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 centres, 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.
Spine-tingling stuff, isn’t it. It’s jaw-dropping that there are still some people who buy into this crap and are prepared to deliberately wreck lives – and perpetuate abuse – as a result. This should act as a warning as to the tragic events that can come about as a result of SRA hoaxes and ram home why it is so important to stamp them out. As a society, it’s time to wake up and learn something from our past mistakes and stop the crazies from making them again.
Thank you 🙂
HOAXTEAD RESEARCH 
Off to the library. That sounds interesting
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Has anyone checked out the long-since- discredited ‘Michelle Remembers’, written by a shrink about his patient-cum-wife’s completely fabricated SRAdventures? (His last name was Pazder.) It was initially taken very seriously, so much so that it was instrumental in prompting/fuelling a great deal of the ‘satanic panic’ of the 80s- 90s. I imagine it can now be found in the ‘Comedy’ ( and 90% discounted) sections of bookstores/libraries…
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Indeed I have. Thanks for mentioning it – it was a major influence on modern SRA hysteria, which in turn is rather indicative of truthers’ tendency to blur the lines between fact and fiction. Much of their bizarre theories are based on totally fictitious movies/TV shows, e.g. ‘They Live’, ‘The Da Vinci Code’, ‘V’, ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’, ‘Enemy of the State’…
There’s a lot about ‘Michelle Remembers’ in Keelan ‘WideShut’ Balderson’s videos and blogs, the links to which can be found here:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/satanic-ritual-abuse
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I would say, don’t forget The Illuminatus! Trilogy, but most truthers wouldn’t be bothered to read such a long book. I think the TV series and films are probably their main influence.
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