Satanic Ritual Cases

As an avid fan of Criminal Minds, I had heard of Morgellons disease before in a rather horrific episode where a delusional (and thankfully fake) serial killer trapped his victims in large containers full of cockaroaches so that they could understand how he felt suffering with this disease. If there is anything that has helped increase the spread of mass hysteria, it is the wonderful tool of the Internet. If only one person felt this weird pain and itchiness, no one would care. But if you can gather thousands of people together and get the media involved, you’ll star on Oprah, CNN, and have elected officials listen. The unfortunate irony between the Morgellons disease story and the Satanic rituals case was that by creating such a frenzy, they

In the Satanic ritual cases, they point a lot of blame to the parents of the little girl or the psychologist who encouraged her wild stories of abuse. But the bigger problem with these cases is the, like the article state, almost literal witch hunt across the country to point blame at child-care centers. In the Salem witch trials, people were eager to call anyone, from a weird old lady, to a rude neighbor you wanted to get rid of, a witch. The jury was also eager to convict people of this crime. Such was the case for all of the so-called Satan worshipping child-care centers. Had the mass population taken a step back and asked themselves the rationale behind thinking all of these people could have “quietly” abused children all these years and it is just now resurfacing all at once, perhaps the unfortunate cases of Frances and Dan could have been avoided. However, this mentally reminds me a great deal of the way many Americans regard Muslims or immigrants. The idea that everyone coming in from certain countries or practitioners of one of the largest faiths in the world could be a terrorist or is coming to undermine American beliefs is rather ludicrous. Yet this security threat was one of the most prominent features of the 2016 election cycle. It is hard to see how people draw the line, thousands of people screaming witch back in the 17th century is a fanatical notion,