{Monsters: Evangelical Christians and the New Age}[15th September 1990]

[Redbook7:297-306][19900916:2115]{Monsters: Evangelical Christians and the New Age}[15th September 1990]

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‘A list of “satanic indicators” was sent by Ms. Klein* to help social workers. Classic signs and symptoms are said to include an unusual pre-occupation with urine and faeces, fear of ghosts and monsters, aggressive play, and the child being “clingy”, reciting nursery rhymes with indecent overtones, suffering from nightmares and bed wetting, preoccupation with “passing gas”, using mouth to make “gas sounds” and wild laughter when the child or someone else “passes gas”.**

I wonder how many parents of young children would not recognise these characteristics in their own offspring?

*an ‘American expert on child abuse’ [per next fn=**, presumably]

**– [The] Ind[ependent] 19900916:3 ‘Satanic cults: how the hysteria swept Britain’, by Rosie Waterhouse

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