Satanism

there was mass hysteria spreading throughout Europe with little to no leadership. It was believed that the Plague was a punishment brought upon them by God, and when they were unable to find any faith that their lord would save them they turned to Satanism. While this was not entirely the fault of the church, they certainly faced the backlash as more and more people began practicing witchcraft in place of faith. In 1380, John Wycliffe became more prominent through his teachings at Oxford…

Shortly after the shoe was seen, one of the boy’s bodies had floated to the surface of the water. After that, the other two bodies were found. It was initially believed by the Chief Inspector that the second-grade boy scouts were murdered due to Satanism, the occult, or a gang. Hours after the bodies were found, two women claimed to have heard a ritual being held in the woods. Rumors began circulating about the ritual that was heard and the town had started to believe that was the reason the…

Imagine a little boy riding his bike down a gravel road. He takes a turn too sharp and takes a really bad fall and scrapes up the entire left side of his face. His cheek stings; he touches it, and sees blood on his hand. The boy screams and runs frantically into his house. When his mother finds him she is completely horrified, seeing her child bloodied and crying. Her first reaction is to scold him and demand her to tell her | what happened. She immediately feels remorse for her sudden…

Moral panics are when a sort of tipping point in society that the sense of threat reaches a breaking point. The conditions that can decide if a situation or objects are a moral panic are if they have diversity of agencies and interest groups, comprehensible story, kernel of truth, media magnification, politico-moral entrepreneurs, professional interest groups, and historical context of conflict. Some examples of moral panics includes comic books, video games, and the Satanic Panic. The moral…

After reading the Devil’s Knot written by Mara Leveritt and watching the trial in class and analyzing all the evidence in the case I’m sure a lot will agree with me that in this case the evidence was very poor. The sentence was not justified or supported with enough evidence. In a case with this magnitude in which minors were involved people would think that the jury would take a close look at the evidence and lead the decision from there which in my opinion did not happen. Most people were…

One of the most scandalous and deranged serial killers is staring directly into the face of death. In just minutes, he will soon be put to an excruciating death for committing inhumane crimes to innocent people. Before he is completely engulfed by the demise of his stability, he is asked the simple, existential question: “Why did you do it?” Being pushed to the brink of distress and forced to question his own insanity, he claims unsentimentally that his actions were solely based on his emotions,…

Although the Walt Disney company seems innocent in American society, it is actually a facade hiding the ugly true purpose of the organization. For more than ninety years, Disney has been hiding subliminal messages and Satanic symbols in its productions. Not only are these messages racist, sexual, and Satanic, but they are also poisoning children and taking away their innocence. Who would think twice about America’s favorite multi-billion dollar industry geared for teaching children “pure and…

the downfall of the Nazi force. He dives further into the explanation when he describes Germany’s struggles to eliminate the Christian faith, the way that the Nazis employed extreme racism to their foreign policies, and the relationships between Satanism and Nazism. Through the reasoning and explanation of the Christian Church Mr. Krzesinski is able to explain the rise, life-span, and eventual end to the Nazi regime. The question is how exactly was this done? The first half of National…

images of cute children, cultural symbols and incomprehensible and alarming images. Ryden chooses themes that carry cultural connotations. He is interested in what different people and cultures consider sacred. His paintings often contain symbols of Satanism, Freemasonry, alchemy, numerology, different religions, and ideologies, as well as depictions of animals and young children with big eyes. By using symbolism in his paintings Mark Ryden gives hints to the viewer…

A Pentacle is very similar to a pentagram. A pentagram is a five-pointed star, each point representing one of the five elements, earth, air, fire, water, and akasha also known as spirit. A pentacle is a pentagram encased in another shape; most commonly a circle but it can any shape, a pentagon, a triangle, or another star. The word its self is broken down into two pieces, “penta” meaning five sided, and “cle” referencing the circle. It is a symbol cloaked in history and dripping with meaning.…