‘Folkloric’; a slightly gawky adjective and perhaps one that exudes too much n aroma of musty libraries and still mustier academics who browse in them. But, a convenient adjective for all that. Can mean more or less what you want it to mean. What I want it to mean when I’m writing on satanic child abuse – and what I don’t want it to mean – goes like this:
A few months ago the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) endorsed stories of satanic abuse in a press conference highly publicised in the national press (a position from which it appears to be trying to back down). Such claims were featured prominently at a national conference on child abuse held this summer, attended by police, psychiatrists and social workers.
It is twenty years since I began my association with MUFOB/Magonia. Looking back at some of my comments in my very first article Apocalyptophilia written as 1970 turned into 1971, I get a vague sense of deja-vu… or was it precognition? In it I wrote: “It seems like the rational universe described by 19th century positivism … is fading. Horrors long buried in the recesses of the mind surge out, obliterating all reasonable critical faculties.