Scientific Knowledge/ claims

  • Did the witch trials ( hunts ) end in 1700’s

    • no


  • Modern Day Sequel

    • satanic day care cases of 1980 and early 1990

    • claim: devil worshippers had set up daycare centers across the country and were allegegly:

      • raping/ sodomizing children, practicing ritual sacrifice, sheding their cloths, drinking blood/ eating feces

    • devil in nursery, margaret talbot writing for new york times


  • Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA): Modern day witch hunt

    • happened between 1984-1985    

    • 185 adults were charged with ritual abuse

    • 113 were convicted

    • many of the conviction were overturned

    • several stayed in jail for years


  • Fran & Dan Keller

    • Austin, TX , early 90s, imprisoned 1992

    • had day care ran out of their home and property

    • took in children that were not welcome at other facilities

    • children were usually had emotional trauma

    • Fran gave kids play clothes and would wash their clothes (washing away evidence)

    • Dan made toys for kids ( drums he made were used to summon Satan)

    • 1 accuser started the investigation


  • Dan/ Fran keller 20 years later

    • 2015 may, court of criminal aappeals

    • Judge cheryl johnson- admitted NO crime had in fact occurred ( was a witch hunt from beginning )

    • This was limited ruling: left the kellers in legal limbo ( permamnently accused- but not cleared and never to be tried

    • Kellers were cleared of charges 2017(25 years later)

    • recieved compensation from state 2018


Southwest of salem: P story of san antonio 4

  • video 1- initial case

  • video 2 after case


  • other cases from around the world

    • 2006 - west bengal : anita mandal and 2 year old daughter were drowned in River ganga after a village exorcist convinced her relative that she and her child were witches

    • 2012- villagers at daru tangara toli, india, lynched 2 elderly people, including a woman on charges of witchcraft

    • 2012- sir lanka, a woman beheaded for allegedly casting a spell on 13 year old girl

      • the girl’s father claimed she suddenly started acting in on abnormal way, happened after she came close to the sri lankan woman


  • Papa New Guinea :2013 feb 8

    • accusation: sorcery

    • evidence

    • obtained though torture

    • outcome: 20 year old mother stripped tortured and burned alive


  • Other interesting world beliefs

    • in Tanzania, albino children have been attacked- and had limbs cut off

    • witch doctors in region believe that their bones are magic