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• Blood Libels: First the Jews, then The Pagans
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• Christian Homophobia Harper's obsession with Lesbians and Gays
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• Harper's Dissolute Early Life
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• Harper: One woman Crime Wave. How she killed a baby in the womb.
  
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• Complete Lack of Detail in Harper's Tall Tales of Witchcraft.
  
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• Harper's false allegations of child-abuse in Witchcraft
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• Harper's Fantasies about desecrating churches

• Harper's fabrications about Witches defiling Graveyards.
  

• At last. The Truth about The Baby Harper watched being  killed.
  
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• Baby not in the early stories - was tacked on later to suit SRA
  
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• Copy Cat Harper?  Doreen Irvine said it first.
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• Full text of Chapter 5. The sacrifice of the non-existent baby.
  
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• Harper dreams of the Highgate Vampire
  
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• How Harper Joined Up With the 5 Star Players in the 1990 Satan Myth.
  
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• The Modern History of Paganism Harper wants to hide from view.
  
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• Doreen Irvine - the world's first  Satanic Victim imposter?
  
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•  The Devil and The Jews: How early Christians invented the Blood Libel to persecute Jews.
  
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• Full initiation rite from the Gardenerian Book of Shadows: What witches actually do!
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Audrey Harper's DANCE WITH THE DEVIL is a pack of Sectarian Lies

We dismantle the wickedest fundie book of the 20th Century.

Next to this is the vile text from Dance With The Devil where Harper makes up this despicable Sectarian lie:  

"It was a baby girl nine days old, she lay on the altar without making a sound, as if she was drugged or something..... The Warlock picked up the dagger while muttering a sort of ritualist speech, something like, 'We offer this sacrifice and hope it pleases you'. Then with no more emotion than a butcher  shows when he's slicing off a steak, he cut the baby's throat.  I thought I was going to pass out I just stood there and turned absolutely numb,  I watched him take the chalice and catch the blood as it gushed from the gaping wound.... The Warlock raised the chalice to his lips and drank the still warm blood. He then moved around from behind the atlar and  handed the chalice to the witches in the circle, she passed it to the next witch and so on round the circle. " (page 54)

'The Devil And The Jews' ) .  Theobald probably made that up to out-Christianise the Christians he was now dependent on.  His invented tale of this imagined conclave of Jewry was over 800 years later worked up into the Zionist New World Order Myth of the  Protocols of The Elders of Zion and so Theobald's  irresponsible inventiveness which probably didn't seem so radical at the time, ended up causing millions of deaths in the 20th century.  Converts to any religion are often more extreme than the religion itself, take another Jewish convert to Christianity, Torquemada, who originated the Inquisition and was responsible for over 2,000 executions for heresy. The Inquisition went on to kill hundreds of thousands more. 

The Blood Libel against Jews is so ancient that civilised people often consider it an aberration from the past but that is not so, it is always with us. The cutting on the right shows that in the middle of the 1990 Satanic Panic far-right groups were publishing Sectarian Lies and distributing them freely in Britain.   If you click on the image it will open up to larger format so you can read it but one part says: 

'Jewish Tributes to our Child Martyrs'
and refers to the anniversary of the massacre of 150 Jewish men women and children at Clifford's Tower in York in 1190. The pamphlet describes the atrocity as 'an act of atonement by today's Jewish community in memory of Christian children who were crucified, tortured and bled to death all over Europe in mediaeval times to satisfy Jewish religious rituals'

When she first made her baby-killing accusations on TV the police immediately started an investigation and  found NO evidence that what she was saying was true.

'I could not give them names and addresses, times and dates, phone numbers and car registrations, - the nitty gritty details needed for a successful police investigation'... next time a child is reported missing or next time the body of a baby is found the police might look towards Witchcraft as a possible cause. (page 14)

So Harper's intention, to smear another religion in order to

  'Drop Christians to their knees in prayer'.

Travelling Satanic Sideshow

Another Anti-Semitic Christian Like Luther

Christian Homophobia

To Audrey Gay people are both evil and child abusers.  Lesbianism is a product of the Devil.   In an interview she gave in the infamous Cook Report Special 'The Devil's Work' in 1989 she said:

' (Witchcraft ) attracts homosexuals they attract Lesbians they attract paedophiles because they can get away with it'

You can see by the way that Harper's eyes move that she's dissembling, that she has no evidence, that she's spouting fears and not reality. It is pure bigotry in action.  Listen to a short clip and watch her Sectarian Lies  pour out by clicking on the photo (right).  Roger Cook should have cut this deplorable accusation ( for which he had no proof ) out of the programme but he didn't because what else did he have to prove his Hoax about SRA?
Nothing as, 30 years later, it can now be seen that every one of 21 cases of SRA he alluded to in that programme had failed in the courts. 

Harper's false link between Gay/Lesbian people and child abuse was attacked by viewers who phoned in to complain. The TV TIMES magazine printed a letter from a viewer about  that programme which pointed out that it  is not a qualification of homosexuality to indulge in witchcraft or child-abuse, whereupon a spokesperson for Central TV apologised  in general to the gay community.  (Ed: if you want to see the full show, the most despicable Trial by TV in Media History which sold the British public an absolute lie, then it is here )

On page 65 of Dance with the Devil Harper says:

"...many of the witches were hugging and kissing, there is a lot of Lesbianism in witchcraft, I think many women join covens because the female predominance means they will find others of the same sexual inclination."

But as I point out elsewhere Audrey Harper is fabricating to suit her own prejudices. There is no predominance of women in witchcraft, it is one of the rules of the Craft that each Coven is 'balanced' sexually, that is, has equal men to women.  I have never noticed a predominance of Lesbians in Witchcraft and I know a lot more about it than Audrey does.  Here Harper is simply inventing to suit the narrative of fundamentalist Christians for whom her book is exclusively intended.   In fact there are no less than 8 derogatory references to Lesbians in Dance with The Devil - I think she must be obsessed with it as the following extracts prove.

On page 65 Harper speaks of a desecration she took part in at a graveyard and says:

People were drinking quite heavily, including me and many of the witches were hugging and kissing. There is a lot of Lesbianism in Witchcraft - I think many women join the covens because the female predominance means they will find others of the same sexual inclination.

The drinks, I suspect, were spiked with some drug, probably LSD, that soon took effect. The youngsters began pawing each other. And the witches who were there, obviously Lesbians, homed in on the young girls.

I witnessed horrible sights as those evil people, spurred on by the warlock and witches, abused those children.  There were dreadful Lesbian scenes where some of the women used contraptions to sexually interfere with little girls.
 

".... if God tells you to do something you've got to go and do it regardless of cost".  

Harper's Dissolute Early Life:

To understand why one person making completely unsubstantiated claims about the sacrifice of a baby in a Witchcraft/Pagan ceremony could be taken seriously and, furthermore, how that false claim  was used by the Media and other fundamentalists to wrongly extrapolate that ALL Witches and Pagans and Satanists were by qualification abusing, torturing and killing children because it was demanded in their rites, we will have to look into  the Biographical details in Audrey Harper's book:

Harper was born on 25th December 1939 in a two room rented flat above an opticians in Crewe.   Her father had died three months before the birth.  In those days it was not uncommon for mothers, trying to make ends meet without a man in work,  to send younger members of a family to charitable institutions because they could not look after them properly. They could not work and keep themselves and look after toddlers.  

Harper and her three year old sister were packed off to the Dr Barnardo's home at Farm Hill in Kelvden, Essex.  The image to the right shows some of the attendees at Kelvden. If you click on it you will see a short video of how happy and well fed and cared for they were.  Ironically from the 1970s Barnardos was hit by a number of scandals related to forcible emigration of children for adoption but as you will see from this clip Harper had as good if not better childhood than she probably would have got in Crewe.

Harper admits to hating her mother for dumping her in Barnardo's, though, in lesser circumstances she later gave up two of her own illegitimate babies to others with little qualm.  Even so Harper, like many of her type, was looking for someone to blame for her lot in life and in the early days it was her mother whom she found at fault.   In fact in 1966 Harper was in such a state from taking heroin and other drugs that she was sectioned in Severals Hospital in Colchester for eight months. During this time she attempted suicide with a plastic dinner knife. More a cry for help, the wrist cuts didn't need stitches but when she recovered Harper hatched a plan to murder her mother, blaming her for everything that had befallen her.

 'Once the baby was born my mental illness vanished. With the devil's child nestling in my womb I had become deranged.'  (page 85)

I Told him (the warlock) that I was needing drugs more and more and I needed money to pay for them, and I was in a mess. He said ' As long as you keep coming here, and working for us, we will provide drugs for you.'  He gave me a small sachet of white powder. It looked like talc but it was heroin.  I had taken most other drugs before, but never heroin. .....  The warlock was given me enough for a couple of fixes (page 96)  

This was just a small quantity, enough to tide me over until the next meeting' (page 98).

AUDREY'S ONE-WOMAN CRIME WAVE:

• Harper failed to report the fatal drug overdose of her friend Marylin, leaving her dead on the floor ( page159)
• Harper solicited and attempted an abortion from a back street abortionist whom she was bedding and dodged police questioning about him in hospital because she was 'too ill'. (page 83)
• Harper recruited young run-aways for child-abuse parties and attended them herself. (page 71)
• Harper Failed to report the child abuse parties to the police even though she says she was revolted by them.
• Harper confesses to vandalising many churches but did not report the damage to the police. (page 105)
• She failed to report the murder of the baby in the supposed Satanic Sacrifice to the police. 

 Dirth of Detail In Her Tall Tales of Witchcraft:

We append some examples of how the pearl-clutching Christian fundamentalists received and reviewed Dance With the Devil below, the example on the right shows what the Tabloid Press did with it. They took Harper's imagined account and added further falsification to it.  The artists impression of the 'chilling moment Audrey became Satan's sex slave' is completely fictitious going by the description given in DWTD but what does fact matter?

Most Christians swallow the constant mediaeval black-propaganda on Witches/Pagans which lies at the base of Audrey Harper's stories.  They do not understand that Paganism is as complex and well defined religion as Christianity is.   Fundies are therefore quite willing to accept Sectarian Lies that Harper puts out.  For instance,  Harper continually and purposefully confuses Satanism with Paganism.   Only as a final adjunct to her book does she in her penultimate chapter

Thus her target is neither Satanism or Witchcraft but the mediaeval stereotype of the Devil Worshipper. 

'supposedly the fallen half of Lucifer' (page 53).

'there are four main witchcraft festivals - February 2 (Candlemass), May Eve (Roodmass), August 1st Lammas, and November Eve (All Hallows eve)'

In British law, a witch is 'a person who hath conference with the devil to consult with him or do some act'.  

Paganism aims to offer a way to recognise and attune oneself with the manifold forces of Nature, which already exist within and without us, and which are vital to our survival, fulfilment and evolution. By celebrating the seasons and becoming one with other living creatures, Pagans synchronise intimately with the planet, and liberate their personalities and magnify their perceptions and talents, in the interests of themselves, their groups and communities, and humankind as a whole .

Beltaine is witches new year's day. (page66) 

"A Coven and a Satanic Temple are similar, but there are technical differences. The coven tends to be the more secretive, more protective, more cautious about who they invite to join them, and then they are attended only by members who have been initiated.  The Satanic Temple is more open. They often have a building where meetings are held regularly. They hold masses at the temples using the Satanic Bible, and they have a form of communion.  But at both Covens and Temples the main objective is to worship Satan, (Page 102).

Audrey Harper gets so many things wrong it shows that she's never met any real witches let alone attended any of their rites.

CHURCH DESECRATIONS:

On page 105 Harper launches into another untrue account of how Witches and Pagans make it their job to defile Christian churches and graveyards.  As we have pointed out above, Pagans are simply not interested in what Christians do.  Why would they want to do such a disgusting thing?   Trying to find a motive to back up her story about them  attacking churches she works-up the fact that many old churches occupy the sites of earlier Pagan sacred sites.

There is truth in some of this, probably one of the few truths in her book.  When Christianity came to the British Isles in the 7th century Christian missionaries worked WITH the beliefs of the local Pagans in order to win them over, and because gods and goddess are paralleled throughout all ancient civilisations they found it expedient to hi-jack local pagan deities.  For instance the Celtic Mother-Goddess Bridget  was equated with The Virgin Mary.   As Mary herself was a symbol that the early Christian church had appropriated from the even earlier Ancient Egyptian pantheon (see image of Isis feeding Osiris on the right) you can see how this religious appropriation worked throughout history.

The early church cooperated with Pagans and built multiple-use churches on Pagan sites. Often these early 10th century churches had two altars. A main Christian altar and a side-altar to the local Pagan deity, with a separate access door (later given the pejorative name of The Devil's Door).  Once Christianity had become politically powerful they dispensed with this cooperation and attempted to suppress the Old Religion of Paganism.   So the idea that Pagan's might want their sacred sites back would be logical, but for two facts:  According to Harper the Coven drove for 15 minutes to get to the church to desecrate it.  That is about a ten mile radius. Within a ten mile area of Virginia Water there are no churches built on ancient sacred sites.

All the village churches in that area were built much later.   So sectarian untruther Audrey Harper's first motivation for desecration is false. Pagans do not attack churches,whether they are on pagan sacred sites or not.  There are no cases of this ever happening.  She is left therefore with the second Sectarian Lie about Witches wanting to 'defile' churches to abominate God.  

The difficulty with this is that there has not been one instance of Pagans defiling churches in modern times.   The idea is a retelling of the legends of when the Vikings pillaged Britain in the 8th century beginning with looting Lindisfarne Abbey of its gold in 793.   Because the Vikings had not been Christianised they became the 'Satanists' of the day and were bad-mouthed by Christian chroniclers.  All they were really after was the gold.  Of course the Christians blame their actions on them being Pagan, conveniently forgetting about all the looting and rapine that was carried out by pious Christian Crusaders in the Holy Wars of the Middle Ages.  Or indeed the defacing of Catholic Icons and Churches during the Reformation.  Fundies like Harper are always very selective about the stories they tell.

Sadly many churches are indeed vandalised and of course lead and copper stripped from their roofs. Occasionally glue-sniffers and wayward kids may spray-paint pentagrams on headstones or break a few windows and some enterprising teenagers go the extra mile in surprising fashion (see story in image right- click on it for a larger version to read ) which all adds to the false idea that Witches and Pagans have a disposition to attack Churches when they never do.

But Witches and Pagans have no need to attack Christianity and as they do not believe in Christian symbols and icons why on earth would they be bothered to?    What would they get out of it?   Harper tries to convey a feeling of euphoria after tearing up bibles and stamping on crosses.   Weird if you ask me.  You gotta be rather twisted to get a high from that, but there's a lot of other contradictory nonsense in her desecration stories, all of which denoting that they are imagined. 

For instance: on page 106 the 'Warlock Master', walks into the church to begin the process of sullying the church.  How did he get past the lock on the door?   Even in the 1960s churches were locked at night.  Harper says that the Coven chose 'isolated' churches.  There are no isolated churches.  They are all placed squarely within the Hamlets they serve.  The sight and sounds of several car loads of 'Witches' turning up to desecrate a church, parking, slamming doors, turning on lights in the church, breaking glass, stamping on brass crucifixes and chanting would wake the entire neighbourhood,  but perhaps the loudest noise would be trying to break down the big oak deadlocked church doors!  That is nigh on impossible.  It's actually unbelievable. It's unbelievable because it is not true.

Harper cannot name any of these churches. She is always blindfolded or the night is always too dark to see, or there is some other impediment to avoid her having to identify those churches she claims were desecrated. Most churches are quite different inside and have something notable in the type of font, hangings, rood-screen etc. but Harper never notices anything.   Her geography is so poor she can't even remember the direction they went off in and doesn't know which way they came back.  It really is too much.  It is too much because it is untrue.

'The Warlock took the communion chalice and urinated into it. The first witch in the line stepped forward, spat at the cross, then knelt and took a sip from the chalice....Somebody nudged me and I went forward...'   

I spat at the cross but nothing came out of my mouth it was dry with fear. 

The Warlock offered me a plate. I couldn't see in the dim light what was on it, but I picked it up and put it in my mouth. It was faeces.  We were eating faeces and drinking urine in a horrible mockery of the Christian communion service. It made me feel sick but I somehow had to stop myself vomiting (page 108).

"These (parties) were when we became involved with the paedophiles who abused young children.  That happened more than once when we raided churches. Youngsters who were drugged so they wouldn't make a noise, were brought along and used in hideous ceremonies to show our reverence for Satan. 

I remember a little boy, who cannot have been more than six or seven, being tied naked to the inverted cross in one church and, while the circle of witches chanted, some of the men who had come along sexually abused that youngster.  I tried to  hide when these awful things were going on. I hid behind the lectern or would find a pillar to hide behind but I knew they were going on and it sickened me. 

'As well as our raids on churches, sometimes we went to Satanic Temples. The activities of these temples were quite different from the covens. The covens did more powerful and evil things.'  (P 113)

'they even say the Lord's Prayer backwards. ' 

Defiling Graveyards and Christian Sacred Places

"Graveyards are frequently attacked....We did however make use of graveyards and I'm sure witches still do, for a purpose more sinister than silly vandalism.  A grave is the perfect place to hide a body. The baby who was sacrificed at my initiation ceremony  was just nine days old and all the evidence that it had ever lived and of its awful death was destroyed by burning the tiny body.   But I had heard tales of older children sometimes adults, being sacrificed. Their bones do not disintegrate so easily in a fire.

The favourite way of disposing of such bodies was in a graveyard.  A grave would be carefully dug up and the coffin opened and the new body placed beside the mouldering corpse.   It is my belief that some of the hundreds of children and adults who go missing every year end up being sacrificed on the altars of the scores of covens which are flourishing today in English towns and cities. and I'm sure that if the police were able to make a search of our graveyards they would find many of those missing people sharing coffins with the official dead."   

AT LAST WE GET TO IT.  THE STORY OF THE SACRIFICED BABY:

The whole purpose of Dance With The Devil is to provide 'evidence' that Witches, Pagans and Satanists kill children because their religion demands it.  A review of DWTD  shown in the image (right) was part of an anti-Halloween church propaganda leaflet published at Halloween 1990.  DWTD was published in October 1990 and this preview of her book was advance advertising it to fundamentalist Christians.   Harper declares that Dance With The Devil is a polemic to "Drive Christians to Their Knees In Prayer."  This is just one of similar 'previews' set up by the Christian propaganda machine, another (see right, below) from Christian Family magazine, headed DELIVERANCE, gives the book a two full page spread' There are many other examples in SAFF files. In short this was a concerted campaign within Christianity to establish as a fact the very doubtful words of a crusading fundamentalist Christian to push completely unproven Sectarian Lies.  In the review headed 'Deliverance' (a term used by fundies which means deliverance from Satan in an exorcism) Harper says:

"The Church fell asleep and that gave witchcraft the chance to grow....but if God tells you to do something you've got to go and do it regardless of cost".  

Presumably that means that doing God's work to counteract the growing popularity of Witchcraft/Paganism comes before everything, including Truth and Honesty?

Later in the Deliverance article the magazine reports that

' Audrey has suffered two strokes - which she attributes to satanic origin.'

Another absolutely unprovable and irrational untruth from the mouth of Audrey Harper.  It reminds one of the innocent old women burned at the stake in the 15c for causing a cow's milk to dry up!   It all makes disgusting reading but if you click on the images on this page they will open up so you can read the evil words in full.

 We have seen how these historic Blood Libels were first falsely levelled by Christians at the Jews 800 years ago, and how that transferred in the fundamentalist mind to other 'heretics'.  Many old women executed as 'witches' during the Reformation, were in fact recusant Catholics, as the Protestants began a witch-hunt against then forbidden Catholicism.   The Lancashire Witches was a case in point when 10 women were executed for practising witchcraft in and around Pendle in 1612 who are now thought to have been, not witches, but  recusant Catholics.   The religious mania increased as Catholic and Protestant enmity grew, it was vitally important to feign piousness, declare oneself Protestant and go to church frequently to avoid being caught up in the witch-hunt and killed.  It's more or less the same in NI today.

Baby Sacrifice Claims Tacked on Later   

The SAFF's research shows that  Harper worked-up her claims of Baby Sacrifice AFTER she jumped on the SRA bandwagon.  This important article pictured right, I Was Satan's Virgin Sacrifice,  published by the Sunday Sport on 13th  March 1988, is the earliest known publication of Audrey Harper's story of her initiation into the Virginia Water coven.  It is all here from start to finish and accords almost identically to the ceremony outlined in her book Dance With the Devil, which was published 31 months later at the height of the 1990 Satanic Ritual Abuse Scare, except for one thing.  THERE IS NO KILLING OF A BABY. The only thing sacrificed is a cockerel!

THERE IS NO KILLING OF A BABY. The only thing sacrificed is a cockerel!

Note that the earliest ever press coverage of Audrey Harper touting her Witchcraft experiences, occurred a month before this in an article in Chat magazine in February 1988.   Here she hid behind the pseudonym of Black Anna and was shown in Silhouette.  Again no claims of Baby sacrifice were made. 

Harper then joined the Reachout Trust and becomes one of the Gang of Five who foisted the SRA Myth onto Britain in the 1990s.

After finding God and being baptised in 1986 Harper started to become evangelically active, and a 'counsellor' to people who imagined they had been involved in occultism (e.g. frightened themselves by using a Ouija board)  Through the fundie network she joined with the Reachout Trust, a key player in foisting the SRA myth onto Britain in 1987.  The Reachout Trust had gained massive coverage and promotion of the idea of SRA in the British Media on the strength of the first UK claimed SRA case, the Broxtowe, case in Nottingham  See here:.  That case was officially ruled to have had no SRA content at all, but whilst the controversy about it was ongoing it enabled Reachout Trust to work with fundie Social Workers and give lectures posing as 'occult experts', to inflame the situation.  

Harper held her first public hallelujah meeting for Reachout Trust during March 1988 to an audience of 400 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.  (page 208 of DWTD ).  She gave the audience her history of depravity in the Virginia Water Coven but did not mention human or baby sacrifice.

Local newspaper reports featured claims at the meeting that children were being 'trapped by the lure of the unknown' but these child-abuse allegations were still embryonic and Reachout had not yet honed their propaganda shock-tactics, complaining not of SRA but of Ouija Boards, Fantasy Games, Rock Music Tarot Cards, and Astrology magazines.   There were no claims of human or baby sacrifice until ten months later when Audrey Harper caused a sensation by claiming to have witnessed a baby sacrifice when she was interviewed live on The Time And The Place TV show in December 1988.  This was the very first time she had publicly made that Sectarian Lie.  

Harper the Copy-Cat?

However, The text in Dance With The Devil was not unique. When reading it I thought 'I've heard this somewhere before'.   And then it hit me, the exact same claims about Harper's initiation ritual were made 17 years earlier in a lesser known work by another fundamentalist named Doreen Irvine.  Irvine was the very first British Occult Victim Imposter.  Her book, From Witchcraft To Christ contained almost verbatim, the same allegations, which appeared in Harper's DWTD in 1990.    Look at this extract, written by Caitlin Morris. Morris was writing for She Magazine and rounded up Irvine's book in this way:  (N.B. we have underlined in blue the duplicate statements matching in Irvine's 1973 book and Harper's 1990 book.)

" Doreen Irvine was a prostitute at 14,. then a heroin addict and night club. stripper.
A conversation overheard one night in the strip club had aroused her curiosity. 
Satanism was being talked about by two other strippers.
"l was ripe for it," she told me. "I’d tried everything else.
And there were no warnings then, nothing about it in the papers. I was gullible, I was  lonely and looking for a sense of belonging."
Doreen was taken ` to a satanists‘ temple for a meeting- blindfolded
because of the need for complete secrecy.
She found herself in a large hall with with about 500 people who were worshipping the Chief Satanist 
in a ritual involving strange chanting and
the sacrifice of a cockerel.
Doreen was aware of the Chief Satanist`s eyes on her and she was afraid.
‘I saw the most dreadful evil acts that night.
But some power I couldn‘t explain made me ask to be taken to the next meeting."
She learnt that there is no class distinction in satanism.
"There were some of the highest ranks of professional people at those meetings, and there were shopkeepers and prostitutes." Their common bond is the worship of Satan."
The Chief Satanist had recognised Doreen`s openness and
he made her his mistress, and ensured her supply of heroin.
She learnt to believe in the warping of truth, that sin was to be condoned and freely committed.
The more she became entrenched in evil, the more her psychic powers developed, so that she too
could get into other people`s minds.
Dressed in a black robe, she was ceremonially sworn in as a child of Satan.  
Her arm was cut and her blood mixed in a silver cup
with that of the sacrificed cockerel.
She drank the blood
and also used it to sign a parchment selling her soul to the devil.
She joined a coven of black witches.
"They have great power and should never be taken lightly," said Doreen.
"They are able to call up powers to help them in their evil deeds"
They often exhume fresh graves and offer the bodies in sacrifice to Satan.
They desecrate churches and holy ground,
leaving behind a witch‘s mark.
They are so evil many of them go insane." 

Irvine does not  make any accusations of human sacrifice, baby killing or child sexual abuse in from Witchcraft To Christ.

'Caroline Marchant claimed to have been a victim of satanic abuse, but there is strong evidence that she was making the story up. In the end, it may have been the pressure to sustain the fiction that drove her to suicide'.

Christian Fundamentalist Liars Abound

The Christian magazine Cornerstone, exposed Wilson's tale as a complete and utter fabrication.

"Satanism, was, he told Lauren, the ultimate path to power and sexual gratification.
At first he forced her to attend satanic rituals where he and others sexually abused her.
Then he demanded she participate in a child sacrifice ritual.
She refused and underwent brainwashing and torture for an unspecified period of time.
Finally Victor threatened he would ritually kill a baby each week that she continued to refuse.
After holding out for four weeks, she was locked in a metal drum with the dead bodies of four babies who had been sacrified. She finally gave in and evidently participated in an infant sacrifice ritual on Halloween night. She says, “It was the last time I ever participated in a satanic ritual.”

Yup, same shit.   

In February 1990, the gaff was up and Wilson's publishers withdrew the book from sale.
It had encouraged many false allegations against innocent parents. 
The publishers were open to writs and killed this and another similar book they had published by Wilson.
Wilson was an out and out LIAR.
All those fundies who had used Satan's Underground as 'proof' of Satanic Ritual Abuse went quiet and said nothing.  Some didn't even bother taking it off their recommended reading lists!
They acted, as they usually do, as though nothing had happened.
They ignored the Truth because they wanted the Sectarian Lies to be true.
The Truth was that they had been made a fool of by a liar who told them what they wanted to hear.
  
Unforgivably,  you can still obtain new copies of Satan's Underground on Amazon in ebook form. 
Yes that's right, you can obtain copies of an utter hoax, which hundreds of thousands of stupid people still believe is real today, even though Wilson herself did a bunk when she was found out and made no attempt to justify her position because she'd been caught bang-to-rights.

There are hundreds of reader reviews on Satan's Underground across the internet, all lauding its praises as though it actually happened, written by self-righteous fundies who want to keep the moral panic going. 
Most of these reviews occurred AFTER the book was proven a hoax!  
Some Christian fundamentalists would appear to be either very dim or very deceitful.

Carl 'Nick' Beech Leads The Police A Merry Dance

5:

So Harper's tall tale of a Sacrificed Baby comes from the above fundie mind-set.   Even though this baby sacrifice is central to the book, the actual Baby Killing crime is detailed in just one ten page chapter, chapter 5, the rest of the book is supplementary waffle. 

We have reproduced that chapter hereunder along with more SAFF research that shows it cannot possibly be true. 

The Highgate Cemetery Desecration: 

Chapter 6, Page 64

Having dispensed with any semblance of reality to Harper's sacrificed baby story there are one or two other Sectarian Lies which she intersperses in Dance with The Devil which show how Harper wove her story in retrospect.   That is, 'remembered' things to suit 27 years after the event.    To 'prove' her accusations about desecration of Graveyards  Harper quotes a big get-together event where her Coven met with other Witches at Highgate Cemetery in North London.   This is notable because it is the ONLY accusation of criminal desecration which Audrey Harper actually identifies by name.  All the other 'crimes' which her coven commits  in Dance With The Devil are in places she cannot identify with people she does not know, at locations she cannot remember.

But why would a Coven based in Virginia Water want to travel an hour and a half through the centre of London  to get to Highgate Cemetery?   Well now, there's a story here:

Today the Highgate/Hampstead area has been gentrified and many well to do people live there but in the 1960s Highgate cemetery was a dump.  The Victorian cemetery at Highgate (The Western Cemetery) had been more or less abandoned to nature by the local authority.  It was thoroughly overgrown and nature was taking the area back.  Trees and bushes had grown between the graves and had upturned gravestones and pushed off the tops of tomb-slabs. Vandals had assisted the general air of dereliction. In some parts of the cemetery mausoleums had been broken into and coffins containing corpses were freely to be seen. It was a place few people frequented.

In the 1960s the interest in Horror and Vampire movies had exploded. 
From 1966 to 1974 the Hammer film company had produced no less than TEN very successful vampire films and many other film companies had produced movies with a vampire slant to catch the same market. 
All of these movies were what is known as Victorian Gothic Horror and Highgate was the epitome of Gothic Horror with it's creepy mausoleums, symbolic figures, broken crosses and broken tombs. It soon became the centre of interest for ghost and vampire hunters. 

At Halloween in 1968 (remember that Harper wroe that she had severed ties with her Virginia Water coven two years earlier in 1966)  officials discovered a strange occurrence at the cemetery. A tomb had been broken open and an iron 'cross' (actually an iron railing) had been driven into the chest of the corpse in true Vampire Fashion.  This created MASSIVE nationwide publicity and made the cemetery a honeypot for Vampire-hunters.

In 1969 two local occult publicity-seekers, Sean Manchester and David Farrant, maximised this publicity for themselves in a flamboyant attempt to find and destroy the so-called 'Highgate Vampire'.  Publicity about Vampires, Ghosts and Witches was a regular occurrence throughout the early 1970s.

In one instance Farrant said he had seen a 'grey phantom' in the cemetery. In another Manchester, using a psychic to divine the Highgate Vampire's whereabouts, had laced a tomb with garlic and performed a banishing spell on it.  

Soon the local newspapers were full of letters from locals who wrote giving their personal experiences of seeing ghoulish things in Highgate cemetery.   For his part Manchester announced he would hold an exorcism for the Highgate Vampire on March 13th 1970 .  This was covered by ITV news.  Within an hour of broadcast a mob of vampire hunters had descended on Highgate cemetery from all over London.  The police could not control them and they swarmed all over the cemetery.  The ensuing publicity was immense. 

 In late August 1970 Farrant was found by police near the cemetery carrying a crucifix and a wooden stake. He was arrested and charged with desecration.  Manchester and Farrant then 'faced off' in 'magical battles' and other promotional stunts, all of which created banner headlines.

You had to be there to see just how much coverage these incident caused. Acres of column inches across local and national newspapers.  There was no-one living in London during the late 1960s and 1970s who did not know about the Highgate Vampire.  It became part of the folklore of the fundies of those days who also jumped on the bandwagon.  However, there was absolutely no genuine Witchcraft, Pagan or Satanic Connection to ANY of it.   

How the Highgate Vampire was woven into tall tales of Satanic Abuse

Fast forward twenty years to 24th April 1988 and we find Geoffrey Dickens MP, who was part of the Gang of Five trying to foist false accusations of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse onto Britain,  making unproven allegations to the Sunday Times about Witches robbing graves and 'abusing skeletons' in cemeteries. 

Where did Dickens get this information from?   We know that Dickens, a fundie himself, collated rumours and false accusations from other fundies which he accepted as fact without any attempt to investigate the claims. so the legend could have come from anywhere but someone had told him that Witches had dis-entombed corpses from graves and sexually abused the skeletons.  It was barmy but the ONLY incidence of anything remotely like this happening which we can find is linked to the Highgate Vampire scare and is firmly fixed in the fundie mindset, as well as having its own entry on Wikipedia.   

How Geoffrey Dickens and Audrey Harper got acquainted - the genesis of the sacrificed baby.

Audrey Harper says (page 205)  that she joined Dickens' SRA campaign after a speech he made against Witchcraft in the Commons in April 1988. Her first appearance with him was on May 13th 1988 (a fortnight before he made his wacky Satanists Abuse Skeletons accusation )  Harper sat next to him on Central TVs 'Weekend' discussion programme.  During the discussion Dickens turned to Harper and said

 'Audrey, to your knowledge ,is child sacrifice going on?'
Harper replied: 'To my knowledge, yes.'

This weak opinion did not cause anything like the utter sensation that her appearance on The Time and The Place did later in December 1988 where she claimed she had participated in the killing of a baby; because at this point in their campaign the black propaganda of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse had not gained traction with Social Workers and the Media.   However, earlier on page 205 Harper reveals that she had arranged with Dickens what she should say.  Having told him privately that she had witnessed child sacrifice she said that he said 'We must get this on the programme tonight'. She was worried about her legal position but Dickens assuaged her fears.  

Check the Timeline:  Firstly this 'Weekend' programme went out live and was broadcast on the 13th of May 1988 but according to Hansard, Dickens didn't make his first Commons speech about Witchcraft and child-abuse until 15th of May two days AFTER he had met Harper.  Harper can't have written to introduce herself after his commons announcement  if she had met him prior to the CTV programme two days earlier. We think they were put into contact during February by the Reachout Trust.

This is how Harper got onto the SRA bandwagon.

By 1987 Harper had joined with The Reachout Trust which had been cultivating believers in SRA for some months.  The core of SRA believers in Reachout were Maureen Davies and Reverend Kevin Logan, Davies acted as an 'occult expert', Logan gave the 'official Christian view' in any publicity.  What they were short of was proof of their SRA allegations. What they needed was a victim of SRA and Audrey, claiming to have been present at a baby sacrifice, fitted the bill nicely.

Harper's story was repeated endlessly in literally hundreds of newspaper articles and TV programmes over the next couple of years and ALWAYS together with quotes from Davies, and Logan.  They cannot deny that they were working in concert to suppress Paganism and establish SRA as real. It was a roadshow of SRA allegations. 

In  1987 Logan and Davies were at the same time in touch with Dianne Core, who ran the child-protection charity Childwatch.  Geoffrey Dickens was Childwatch's Parliamentary Representative, he had been working with Core for several years on other campaigns prior to the SRA panic.  Anything related to SRA usually came from Reachout, through Core to Dickens (see the Pennells' case quoted elsewhere in this website).  Reachout was also a founder member of the Evangelical Alliance.   As you can see there's a web of interconnected self-interest in this network.

After becoming born-again in 1986 Harper had appeared at local church halls giving talks on her redemption from Satan but her first move into the big-time was her appearance in  Doorways To Danger in October 1987 (see evil background to this pamphlet here) . 

This infamous fundie tract/leaflet produced by the Evangelical Alliance, contained unfounded stories from other fundie activists on the usual complaints (tarot, ouija boards, astrology etc) and also featured Kevin Logan warning about the 'dangers of the occult'.   Harper's story was detailed as it later appeared in Dance With The Devil but there was no mention of baby sacrifice.   So, a pamphlet produced by the EA which had been inaugurated precisely to deal with perceived threats of Satanic Ritual Abuse and human sacrifice, went to the trouble of publishing a tract warning people against the occult, included Audrey's story, but did not include any claims of human sacrifice.  

In February 1988 Harper appeared in a Chat magazine story which also included an interview with Dianne Core of Childwatch. Core was part of the Gang of Five.  She obtained much of her 'dossier' on occultism from Reverend Kevin Logan whose contributions were often deceitful. He rigged a 'survey' of 300 children to be able to publicise the fact that the majority of them were in the clutches of Occultism when they weren't.  Dickens actually referred to this hoax survey  in his Commons speech about SRA as 'proof' of the threat to children.  There were other instances of Logan claiming that ritual murders had occurred on his home patch when they had not.  That statement, originally made in a radio interview, is important because it caused a police investigation of his claims, and they were proven untrue, just as Audrey Harper's claims of a baby sacrifice would be later in 1988.   The Chat magazine story gave a round up of Audrey's story in Dance With The Devil but again does not include any mention of baby sacrifice. 

Harper says in her book that the first public meeting she did for Reachout Trust was in Colwyn Bay in March 1988 (page 208).   She related her story to the audience of 400 attendees but again did not make any allegations of baby sacrifice. Interestingly part of this crusade meeting involved the exorcism of disturbed people who thought they had been contaminated by exposure to the devil. 

Dianne Core was in close touch with Dickens who was Childwatch's parliamentary representative, therefore we estimate that Harper must have been in touch with Core/Dickens earlier than she stated in her book, probably January/February 1988. 

Appearing on Central Weekend was therefore a kind of set-up, where Dickens gave Audrey a chance to force the issue on her claims of SRA.  However, interestingly this entire programme was more of a setup than we first thought because the Witch who produced a voodoo doll of Geoffrey Dickens and threatened to stick pins in it was one Beth Gurevitch. By doing so she alienated the audience from the other Pagans present. However Gurevitch, a fortune teller and 'headshop' owner from Birmingham, had spent the last month actually liaising with Dickens and Core giving insider information to smear occultism with.  She provided him with information to put in his infamous Satan Dossier which he promised to send to the Home Secretary but never did.   Why was she threatening to stick pins in a doll of Dickens?  Why did Dickens and Gurevitch act like enemies when they were colleagues?  By producing the voodoo doll she nicely 'confirmed' the nastiness of Witchcraft in the public's mind and derailed the arguments of the Genuine pagans in the debate!    Viewers sucked it in.   Not only viewers.  30 years later the granddaughter of Geoffrey Dickens also fell for it at face value and made a fool of herself here.

By 19th Sept 1988 Geoffrey Dickens felt that belief in SRA was so strong in the populace that he was able to claim in British newspapers that 'Children were Being Sacrificed to the Devil'.  We don't know what evidence he based this claim on other than the word of Harper.   All his previous allegations had referred to children being physically and sexually abused in Satanic rites, not killed. This is the first time he accused Satanists of killing children.  

The next astonishing claim of child sacrifice made by one of the Gang of Five occurred on 15th November 1988 less than a month before Harper outed herself on The Time and Place.  When talking to the USA newspaper The New Federalist  Diane Core, Dickens' close confidant,  claimed that  4,000 children a year were being sacrificed in the UK alone in Satanic Rituals.  This was obviously a completely ridiculous and insupportable claim, yet Core probably thought no one in Britain would ever see it.  They did, courtesy of the SAFF, and it ruined her reputation in the social work world.  

So let's recap the Timeline:

1986 Harper is converted to Christianity.
1986 Harper lectures to churches and the fundie network about her redemption.
1987 Harper joins Reachout Trust
1987 October: Harper Appears in Doorways to Danger - No baby sacrifice claimed
1988: February: Harper appeared in a Chat magazine - No baby sacrifice claimed
1988 February:  Harper Makes first contact with Geoffrey Dickens through Core after appearing with her in Chat mag article.
1988: March 13th:  I Was Satan's Virgin Sacrifice' article in the Sunday Sport. Harper gives full story of her initiation as it will later appear in Dance With The Devil - not only is no baby sacrifice claimed, a Cockerel is sacrificed instead. 
1988 March: Harper Speaks to audience of 400 at Colwyn Bay.  No baby sacrifice claimed.
1988 May 13th 1988 Appears on CTV Weekend with Geoffrey Dickens.  Baby sacrifice claims first muted in passing but do not create a sensation.
1988 15th of May Dickens makes first announcement of threat of SRA in House of Commons.
1988 September 19th: Geoffrey Dickens claims in British newspapers that 'Children are Being Sacrificed to the Devil'. 
1988 October:  SHE magazine special Devil Hides Out on SRA interviews Audrey under 'The Witch's Tale' 
        No baby sacrifice claimed.  Here it is a cockerel which is sacrificed instead.
1988 November 15th Dianne Core claims 4,000 children are killed every year in Satanism.
1988 December 1st:  Harper announces she was present at the Sacrifice of a baby on the Time and the Place TV programme.
1988 December 6:  Surrey Police begin investigation, question Harper for 3 hrs and find 'No Case To Answer'.
1988 December 6: The Post prints details of Audrey Harper's  baby sacrifice allegations a 2nd time. When she was asked why she confessed on the Time and the Place programme she replies:

 "I just  found myself telling the presenter...I'm glad that I did, this problem has got to come out".

1988 December:  Surrey police investigation into Harper's story concludes saying there's absolutely no evidence to support Harper's claims. It is utterly ignored by the national and local media, who continue to print SRA allegations from her and others in the Gang of Five regardless.

The result is, dear reader, that today, as you read this, MILLIONS of fundies on the internet believe an outright Sectarian Lie.  Witches DO NOT sacrifice babies, children, adults or animals of any kind and never have done.

Today's self-appointed Witchfinder General,  Wilfred Wong tells MILLIONS of gullible people who trust him

"Satanist covens which committed human sacrifice were in existence in England as far back  as 1961.
So the existence and the extent of SRA that exists today is much bigger than when Audrey joined the coven, back in 1961. And what they were doing is very similar to what the covens do today, "

So, without ANY evidence other than the very dubious tales of Audrey Harper, Wong seeks to Inspire hatred in other Christians against Paganism. This is not only immoral and against the Religious Hatred laws in the UK but it also breaks the Bibles own rules.  Proverbs 6: 16-19 clearly says so. 

Witches DO NOT sacrifice babies, children, adults or animals of any kind and never have done. Anyone who says different is an evil Sectarian Liar who disrupts society and should be shunned in their own community and prosecuted for Religious Hatred.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The Modern History of Fundamentalist Agitation:

'I was on the slippery slope of drugs, fell into prostitution to pay for it, did abominable things (long list of disgusting experiences here) and then just when I thought my life was finished I was saved by Jesus, hallelujah!'

THE REDISCOVERY OF WITCHCRAFT

THE FUNDIES KICK BACK.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WITCHCRAFT/PAGANISM AND SATANISM

NEO-SATANISM REARS ITS HEAD

SATANIC RITUAL CHILD ABUSE IS A MYTH