In the '80's satanic rituals involved children, and they did NOT stand six feet apart.Lin Wood states that during satanic rituals, “they” have to wear masks and stand 6 feet apart. He then asks the audience if this sounds familiar. pic.twitter.com/VEcOdMDFLb
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 20, 2021
Personally, I think he's confusing it with this.
Do your research, people!
(My research, such as it is, indicates all descriptions of "satanic ritual" are made up bullshit flowing out of the flowering of interest in "witchcraft" and "satanism" that in turn flowered from Romanticism giving rise to a) increased interest in folklore (Brothers Grimm, etc.) and b) increased interest in fantasy as literature. Nothing against either, but put them together and you get Gothic (which I also enjoy), and from that pure invention about witches and "magic" and creepies, crawlies, and things that go bump in the night. By which I mean it's not the invention of our ancestors around campfires who didn't know any better, it's an invention of the educated "elites" of the 19th century (mostly in England) who SHOULD have known better. So "satanic ritual" is not an ancient and secret historical practice, it's an invention to gull the rubes. Just like many "medieval torture devices" which are unknown to history before the mid-19th century, when they became a vogue in Victorian England. Which occurred because of Romanticism, a renewed interest in folklore (elves, dwarves, magic) that led to a deep interest in Gothic tales (which are purely a creation of the post-Romantic era in England, a/k/a the Victorian Era. Tower Bridge is the physical monument to this obsession: built during the reign of Victoria, it recreates what 19th century Europe thought "medieval" architecture looked like. It's only comparative structure in Europe is Neuschwanstein, also built in the 19th century, also built to look like a "medieval" castle. But everybody knows it's an elaborate and expensive fake more suited to a Disney movie than to reality.
Sorry, but this "satanic ritual" crap is a conspiracy theory that goes back a couple of centuries, at least. Even Cotton Mather didn't imagine anything as elaborate as what we think is "true" about "satanic worship" now.)
Oh, great. Just what we need, Geraldo doing another TV special and a wave of wackadoodle shrinks and ambitious talentless prosecutors bringing phony charges resulting in the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court not wanting to overturn obviously fake convictions because it would bring the legal system into disrepute.
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