Clipping list for Witchcraft Articles Rowan Moonstone P. O. Box 1842 Colorado Springs, CO
Clipping list for Witchcraft Articles
Rowan Moonstone
P. O. Box 1842
Colorado Springs, CO 80901-1842
1970
5-5-70 - "Witchcraft Bubbles, Boils. Old Black Magic Casting New
Spell," by Bill Harlett, Los Angeles Times, Positive. 5 pp.
l972
7/27/72 - "A Bewitching Look at Covens" John Godwin, Chicago
Tribune (UA) positive
1974
3/6/74 - "Witchcraft Defended" Doug Domeier, Dallas Morning News,
2 pp. (UA) positive
5/19/74 - "Shadows of 'Old Religion' Looms Large Against Reality
of Today's Society", Emma Livingstone, Richmond (Va.) Times
Dispatch (UA) positive
12-5-74 - "Not Satanists. Witch Fighting for Better Public Image"
Los Angeles Times, positive.
1975
4/20/75 - "Witchcraft, It's Message For Today" San Francisco
Examiner, 2 pp. (UA) positive
10-31-75 - "It's the Witches Day to Howl. Halloween is New Years
for Practitioners." by Russell Chandler. Los Angeles Times,
positive, 2 pp.
1976
1/25/76 - "Witches Embroiled" Wes Hills, Dayton (Ohio) Daily News
(UA) neutral
2/10/76 - "An Old American Custom" Linda Bernier, L.A. Times
Herald, (UA) positive
8/23/76 - "Parents Proud Of Witch Daughter" S.F. Chronicle (UA)
neutral to negative
10-31-76 - "Real Witch in Demand For This Time of Year",
Bismarck Tribune, positive (CRF)
1977
5-77 - "The Adams Family and the Grail Tradition" by Andrew E.
Rothovius East-West Magazine, positive
8-77 - "The Dragon Tradition on the New World" by Andrew E.
Rothovius, East-West Magazine, positive
1978
6/5/78 - "Group That's Preparing For Witch War" S. F. Chronicle
(UA) negative
10-15-78 - "Bad Press Plagued Witches" Beverly Narum, Kansas City
(Mo) Star (UA) positive
10/27-78 - "Ghosts of Halloween" Darci Vanderhoff, Dallas Morning
News (IHP) neutral
1979
2-9-79 - "The Legend(s) of John Todd" Editorial, Christianity
Today, (S. Crocker) neutral to positive
9&10/79 - "Halloween? God Has A Better Idea" Ted Roberts, Virtue
Magazine (IHP) negative
1980
8-8-80 - "Seperation of Church and Witch" by W. Harold Fuller,
Christianity Today, negative
9/28/80 - "A Convention of Witches is Viewed Darkly by Some in
Amarillo", William K. Stevens, N.Y. Times (UA) neutral
10-13-80 - "No evil potions for modern witches" by Chuck Nowlen,
Milwaukee Sentinel, positive (LH)
10/18/80 - "Witches Unwittingly Cast Prayer Spell on Amarillo"
Richard A. Abrams, Austin American Statesman, (UA) neutral
10/19/80 - "Bomb Threat Interrupts Witches' Seminar in Texas"
William K. Stevens, N.Y. Times, (UA) positive
10/19/80 - "Witches Dispersed by Bomb Threat" Associated Press,
New Orleans Times Picayune, (UA) positive
10/19/80 - "Witches' Toil Interrupted by Bomb Threat Trouble"
Richard A. Abrams, Austin American-Statesman, (UA) positive
10/20/80 - "The Witches Talk, The Christians Sing", William K.
Stevens, N. Y. Times, (UA) positive
10-20-80 - "Texas Hexes Witches' Group" Associated Press, Chicago
Tribune, (UA) positive
10-20-80 - "Witches Say Amarillo 'Violent,Unfriendly'" (AP), New
Orleans Times-Picayune, (UA) positive
10-20-80 - "Some Enchanted Evening" Kent Biffle, Dallas Morning
News, (UA) positive
10-27-80 - "A Treat (No Trick): Even Witches Can Be Good" Georgie
Anne Geyer, L.A.Times (UA) positive
10-31-80 - "Mother of Seven Studies Nightly to Become A Witch"
Stephanie Sansom, Daily Californian, (UA) positive
1981
1981 - "Forensic Sciences Aspects of Santeria , A Religious cult
of African Origin,"C.V.Wetli & R. Martinez. Journal of Forensic
Sciences, (CAN) neutral to negative
2-18-81 - "Dungeons and Dragons, The Occult Goes to School" by
Bob Elmer, Olympia News, Olympia Wash, BADD, negative
5-10-81 - "High Priestess Seldom Leaves Mythic Domain" Gloria
Ohland, Dallas Times Herald (IHP) negative
6-81 - "Witchcraft In America" Us Magazine, 3 pp. (BE) positive
9-27-81 - "Ways of the Covens Fluorishing in Secret" by Bill
Lazarus, New Haven Register, (UA) positive
10-31-81 - "A Spirited Subject, Tracing the Religious, Secular
Roots of Halloween." Pat Zajac, Ft. Worth Star Telegraph, (IHP)
neutral
1982
2-14-82 - "Witch Who can read your body like the palm of your
hand", by Cynthis Raymond, Los Angeles Times, positive 2 pp.
6-14-82 - "Victoria Police Hunt Reported Satanic Baby Sacrifice"
by Barbara McLintock, Vancouver Sun positive (KC)
6-15-82 - "Satanic Rumors, Baby Sacrifice Alert Out " Vancouver
Sun, positive (KC)
6-17-82 - "Satanist Alert An Error" Victoria Sun, positive (KC)
8-1-82 - "Bedeviled by a wild rumor, they fight back" by Terry
Bivens, Philadelphia Inquirer, positive
10-20-82 - "An Evangelical Feminist Confronts The Goddess"
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott,Ph.D., Christian Century (UA)
neutral
10-31-82 - "A house is Not A Home, but The Dogs Are The Pits"
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
1983
3-3-83 - "Fiscal Woes Hex Witches Convention" Dallas Morning
News, (IHP) neutral
6-24-83 - "Law Allows Casting Spells If You Do It For Free"
Dallas Morning News, (IHP) neutral
7-11-83 - "Sacrifices, Spirits Part of Miami Life" by Barry
Bearak, neutral. 2 pp.
8-83 - "Brujeria: Manifestations of Palo Mayombe in South
Florida", C.V. Wetli & Robert Martinez, Journal of the Fla. Med.
Assn. (CAN) neutral to negative
10-12-83 - "Witchcraft: A Real But Controversial Way of Life"
Edna Boone Johnson, Birmingham Ala. News, 2 pp. (UA) neutral
10-13-83 - "Kidnap Threat At Hospital Boosts Security", Vancouver
Sun, positive (KC)
10-21-83 - "Witchcraft: An Inside View", J. Gordon Melton,
Christianity Today, 2 pp., positive
10-29-83 - "Bad Image, Witches Haunted By History" by Scott
Smith, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Leisuretime Magazine,
positive (GLB) 2 pp.
11-5-83 - "Witches, Paganists Eschew Satanism Study Says"
John Dart, L.A. Times, (UA) positive
11-7-83 - "Americans Spend Millions on Occultism" Cindy Skrzycki,
Dallas Morning News, (IHP) negative
11-7-83 - "The Occult Blossoms into Big Business", by Cindy
Skrzycki, U.S. News and World Report, (neutral)
1984
1-14-84 - "Youth Claims Cult Gave Him Body of Baby", Cindy
Rugeley, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
1-14-84 - "Drug Raid Turns up Baby's Bones", Anne Reifenberg,
Dallas Morning News, (IHP) negative
Spring 84 - "Ultrafundamentalist Sects and Child-Abuse" by Lowell
D. Streiker, Free Inquiry, positive, 7 pp.
3-9-84 - "She Sees Witchcraft In Loss of College Job" John Crust
& L.W. McGarry, L.A. Times, (UA) positive
3-23-84 - "The Devil and Colorado's Young", by Leslie Petrovski,
Up The Creek, negative (CuCO) 2 pp.
4-22-84 - "Lucas Says Cult Inspired Killings" Gayle Reaves, Ft.
Worth Star Telegram, (C.A.N.) negative
4-23-84 - "Murders in the Name of the Devil" Sacramento Union
5-22-84 - "Satan Worship Uplifted on NBC", NFD Journal, (IHP)
negative
6-1984 - "Satan worship Rituals on the Increase", Battle Cry
Publications
6-22-84 - "Police Raid Religious Commune" Ft. Wayne News-
Sentinel, (C.A.N) negative
6-24-84 - "Ex-Warlock fights the satanism cults" by Wynne Bilby,
Sunday Denver Post, negative, (CuCo)
6-24-84 - "Witches, women leave everyday routines to honor
sisterhood, the Craft" by Wynne Bilby, Denver Post, positive,
2 pp.
6-24-84 - "Priestess bewitched but not bothered, bewildered" by
Wynne Bilby, Denver Post, positive, 2 pp.
7-8-84 - "Youth Arrested in 'Cult' Murder Takes Own Life" Newport
Daily Press, Newport News, Va, (B.A.D.D.) negative
7-8-84 - "Youth in Devil Cult Is Found Hanged" Ft. Worth Star-
Telegram, (IHP) negative
7-8-84 - "6 Fetuses Found in fire Rubble", Sacramento Union
7-9-84 - "Teen's Cult Leaves Sinister Scar on City", Margaret
Hornblower, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
7-15-84 - "Drugs Changed Life of Teen Charged in Satanic Killing"
Pat Milton, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
7-15-84 - "Voodoo In Brazil: A Way of Life" Stephen G. Bloom,
Dallas Life Magazine (IHP) neutral
7-18-84 - "Shock Waves of Teen's Death Shake Long Island Suburb"
Michael Coakley, Ft. Wayne News- Sentinel, (CAN) negative
8-17-84 - "Hamlet In England Gives Witch The Devil Over Plans For
Coven", Elizabeth Grice, Dallas Morning News, (IHP) neutral
8-17-84 - "Yorkshire In Devil of a Row Over Witches Coven Moving
In", Elizabeth Grice, L.A. Times, (UA) neutral
8-23-84 - "Nine are Apprehended in area Cult Setting" Centralia
Sentinel, BADD negative
9-16-84 - "Matter of Mind Control", Ron Hutchinson, Ft. Worth
Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
10-84 - "The Witches of Berkeley" by Nancy Churnin Demac" San
Francisco, positive 7 pp.
11-4-84 - "Game Suspected as Factor in Boys Deaths" Dallas
Morning News, (IHP) negative
11-10-84 - "Hazardous Horoscopes? Scientists Ask Papers For Dis-
claimer to Warn Gullible Stargazer" (IHP) negative
11-15-84 - "It's a Rare Medium Who is Well Done" Letters to Anne
Landers, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, (IHP) negative
11-22-84 - "Kids In the Dark" by David Breskin, Rolling Stone
Magazine , neutral to negative, 14 pp.
1985
1-85 - "Satanists Vandalize Churches", Christian Enquirer
1-19-85 - "Arlington Teen Kills Himself in Front of Class",
Lorraine Ianello, Dallas Times-Herald, (IHP) negative
1-31-85 - "Is Dungeons and Dragons Game a Macabre Influence on
Teens?" Howard Witt, Dallas Morning News, (IHP) negative
2-85 - "Magic: A Deadly Solution", Denver Magazine, negative
(CuCo) 6 pp.
3-15-85 - "Rock'n'Roll Sermon Nets Listeners,Doubters", Marlene
Perrin,Iowa City Press Citizen, (CAN) neutral
4-17-85 - "Satanist Gathering Suspected", Courier, Findlay, Ohio,
(CAN) negative
4-18-85 - "Rumor Bedevils Proctor & Gamble", Margot Hornblower,
Washington Post, neutral
4-25-85 - "P&G Drops Logo: Cites Satan Rumors: Man in Moon Loses
a Job", Sandra Salmans, New York Times, neutral
5-19-85 - "Occult Took Me To Brink of Death, Priest Tells" by
Peter Haran, Sunday Mail, Australia, BADD, negative
5-29-85 - "Wise Guys - And Newspapers - Still Bedevil P&G About
it's Infamous Corporate Logo" by John Bussey, Wall Street
Journal, humorous
6-18-85 - "Portsmouth Family victim of Gruesome Vandalism" by
George Shadroui, Virginian Pilot
6-28-85 - "Strange Case - Quartet Guilty of Child Molestation" by
Charles Postell, Albany (Ga) Herald, (BADD) negative
7 & 8-85 - "By the Power Invested in Me" by Scott James , Liberty
Magazine (JH) positive
7-8-85 - "Satanic Bible In Public Libraries" Rev. Roger Hudson,
Update Magazine (WATCH) negative
*7-8-85 - "Satanic Cult" (AP) negative
7-13-85 - "Satanic Cults Termed "Present Danger", Marjorie
Rommel, Chicago Sun-Times, (CAN) negative
*7-14-85 - "Satanic Slaying" San Francisco (AP) negative
7-29-85 - "Satanism Haunts Tales of Child Sex Abuse", John
Crewdson, Chicago Tribune, 7-29-85 (BADD) negative
8-23-85 - "Children allege animal Sacrifices" by Anne Pifine,
Nevada Appeal, Carson city, Nev. (BADD) negative
8-27-85 - "Drug Agents Arrest 3, Seize Satanic Material in Weld"
Rocky Mountain News, neutral
9-2-85 - "Satanic Killing" (AP) negative
9-15-85 - "They Turn To Magic, Not Satan", George Flynn, San
Diego Union, (UA) positive
9-15-85 - "Devil Worship: What's Behind It?" Mary Flood, Houston
Post, (BADD) negative
9-15-85 - "Satanists Blend into Society" Houston Post (BADD)
negative
9-16-85 - "Night Stalker" People Magazine, 3 pp., (IHP) negative
9-16-85 - "Parents vs. Rock" by Stephen Dougherty, People
Magazine, negative, 8 pp.
9-19-85 - "Witch Says She is Victim of Job Bias", George Flynn,
San Diego Union, (UA) positive
9-22-85 - "Cult Movement Growing; Outcome Bears Watching" by
Georgie Anne Geyer, El Paso Times BADD, negative
9-24-85 - "Satanism, Cult of the 1980's", Georgie Anne Geyer,
Dallas Morning News, (IHP) negative
10-11-85 - "Pentagram Not Evil" Letter to the Editor, Lurline
Jennings, L.A. Herald Examiner (LJ) positive
10-15-85 - "Obstacles Don't Deter Witches' Worship", Gayle White,
Atlanta Journal, 2 pp., (UA) positive
10-23-85 - "A Natural Rite" by Mary Mashburn, Colorado Springs
Sun, (GLB) positive 2 pp.
10-25-85 - "Man Charged in Stalker Murder", USA Today, BADD,
negative
10-31-85 - "Witches Aren't Flying Very High In Today's Culture",
Lucretia Steiger, San Diego Union, (UA) neutral to positive
10-31-85 - "What a Halloween haul! Snickers, an apple and the New
Testament" by Dale D. Buss, Wall Street Journal, neutral
10-31-85 - "There's Trouble Brewing For Witches This Halloween",
Jan Lindstrom, San Gabriel Valley, L.A. Herald-Examiner (LJ),
neutral to positive
11-13-85 - "A New Broom" Oklahoma Gazette, positive
11-23-85 - "Sex Slave Keeper Receives 104 Years", Ft. Worth Star
Telegram, (IHP) negative
11-28-85 - "Tax Exemption for Witches Haunts Congress", Paula
Fisher, Wanderer, 2 pp., (IHP) positive
12-1-85 - "Horse Owner Fears Cult at Blame in Mutilation", Dallas
Morning News, (IHP) negative
12-17-85 - "Cult Member Lacks Remorse for Turture Death of Thimm"
Wyoming State Tribune (BADD) negative
12-31-85 - "Brazil Clergy Tacitly Approves Cult Worship", Bryna
Brennan, Dallas Times Herald, (IHP) neutral
1986
1-86 - "Witches, ACLU Foil Helms, Casting Off His Evil Curse" by
Rebecca Pitman, Washingtonian, positive
1-3-86 - "Satan Cult Site Found" by Debbie Stone, Montgomery
Journal, BADD, negative
1-8-86 - "Devil Worship Prompts Arrest", Newport News (VA) Daily
Press
1-86 - "The Devil Made Me Do It", Dr. Joel Norris & Jerry Allen
Patter, Penthouse, 9 pp. (CAN) (VOICES) negative
1-86 - "The Teacher Hurt Me, Mommy" by Joanne Michaels, Redbook,
neutral 4 pp (VOICES)
1-16-86 - "Waverly News" negative (WBBBS)
1-26-86 - "Lure of New Age philosophy has biblical scholar
worried", by Bill Husted,Rocky Mountain News. negative (CuCo)
2-4-86 - "Letter To Mike Warnke Ministries" by Lt. Larry M. Jones
(IHP) negative
2-16-86 - "Fad or Fanatic Cult? Diana Washington, El Paso Times
(BADD) negative
2-16-86 - "Some Call it a Cult; Others A Religion", Diana
Washington, El Paso Times (BADD) negative
2-16-86 - "WATCH Network Keeps Eye On Occult", Diana Washington,
El Paso Times (BADD) negative
2-16-86 - "El Paso Area Is Dotted With Apparent Ritual Sites",
Diana Washington, El Paso Times (BADD) negative
2-16-86 - "Selfishness is the Point of Satanism", Diana
Washington, El Paso Times, (BADD) negative
2-17-86 - "The World of Dark Rock" by Rob Lamp, The New American,
negative 5pp (DG)
2-20-86 - "Monroe Officials Link Teen Death To Satanism" by Joe
Swickard, Detroit Free Press (BADD) negative
2-20-86 - "'Sacrificial' Death" Denver Post, negative
2-25-86 - "Prosecutor To Seek Death in Devil Worship Killings"
Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune, (CAN) negative
2-26-86 - "Angel of Satan On Trial" Northwest Herald, Crystal
Lake, IL, (CAN) negative
2-27-86 - "Teen Guilty in Ax Murder" Northwest Herald, Crystal
Lake, IL, (CAN) negative
*3-3-86 - "Kern Molest" (AP-CMBBS) San Francisco, Ca. negative
* 3-3-86 - "Finders" (AP-CMBBS) neutral
* 3-7-86 - "Canbriefs" (AP-CMBBS) Calgary, Alberta
*3-17-86 - "Satanic Farm Field" Greeley Colo. AP Negative
3-19-86 - "Library Refuses to Ban Book On Witches", Connie Petty,
Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald (ED) neutral to positive
3-20-86 - "Pickets Protest Book On Witches", Carter Wood, Albany
(OR) Democrat-Herald, (ED) neutral to positive
* 3-20-86 - "Prank Graves" (AP-CMBBS) Yontis, TX, weird
*3-28-86 - "Chef Murder" Flemington, N.J. (AP) negative
4-2-86 - "Letter To Warnke Ministries" Glenn Gibbs (IHP) negative
*4-3-86 - "Son of Sam" (AP-CMBBS) negative
*4-14-86 - "Grave Robbers" Pottsville, AK (AP-CMBBS) negative
4-18-86 - "Putting Satan's Work into Perspective" by Randy Frame,
Christianity Today, (neutral) 2 pp.
*4-20-86 - "Satanic Rumor" (AP-CMBBS) Huntsville, AL, negative
4-22-86 - "Boy 14, Accused in Satan Assault" Andrew Herman,
Chicago Sun-Times, (CAN) negative
4-22-86 - "Spell of Unemployment" by Egan, Woman's World Weekly,
(UA) positive
*4-22-86 - "Teenage Satanism" (AP-CMBBS) Salt Lake City, UT
negative
*4-23-86 - "Sex Trial" by Woody Baird Memphis, Tenn. (AP-CMBBS)
negative
4-22-86 - "Satan Bible Feud Linked to Slaying" by Susanne Burks,
Albuquerque Journal (BADD) negative
4-22-86 - "Cults: Growing Problem Among Nevadans", by Dorothy
Kosich, Carson City Nevada Appeal (BADD) negative
*4-24-86 - "Night Stalker" by Sun Manning, L.A. Times (AP-CMBBS)
negative
*4-24-86 - "Sex Trial" by Woody Baird, Memphis, TN (AP-CMBBS)
negative
*4-25-86 - "Sex Trial II" by Woody Baird, Memphis, TN (AP-CMBBS)
negative
4-27-86 - "Satan Worship Called Dangerous, Growing", Eric Zorn,
Chicago Tribune, (IHP) negative
* 5-4-86 - "Satanic Cults" (AP-CMBBS) Chattanooga, TN, negative
5-4-86 - "Devil Did It! A British Man Nets $313,000" ,by Joseph
Lelyveld. New York Times Sunday, neutral
5-7-86 - "Teenagers, Rock'n'roll and Satan" by Judith Graffam
Press Enterprise , Riverside, CA (BADD) negative
5-7-86 - "Cults Are Dangerous, says Vatican document" Denver
Catholic Register, negative (CuCo)
5-13-86 - "Teen To Stand Trial As Adult in 3 Deaths", Nolan Clay,
Daily Oklahoman, negative
* 5-13-86 - "Vandalism" (AP-CMBBS) Ft. Collins, Colo.
5-20-86 - "Charleston Rector Quits Says He's Been Bewitched"
Charlotte Observer, (JM) neutral to strange
* 5-24-86 - "Party Death"- (AP CMBBS) E. Lansing, Mich
5-29-86 - "Witchcraft Issue Heats Up School Censorship Battle"
Fred Grimm, Charlotte Observer, (JM) negative
6-86 - "Violent Ritualistic Victimization: An Attack on the Mind,
Body, and Spirit" by Florangel M. Mendez, NCASA News, BADD,
negative
*6-1-86 - "Child Sex" (AP-CMBBS)
6-5-86 - "The Noble Search For Devil Worshippers And Other
Godless Commies, Q&A with Deputy Sherrif Dave Gaerin, San Diego
Reader, 12 pp., (UA) negative
6-6-86 - "Witchcraft: A Persecuted Religion" Letter to the Ed.
Adrian Russell, Charlotte Observer, (JM) positive
6-7-86 - "2 Ex-Va. Students Quizzed in London About Stabbing
Deaths" by Tom Sharwood, Washington Post,BADD, negative
*6-7-86 - "Voodoo Incident" Dallas Tx. AP (CMBBS) negative
6-10-86 - "Meet a Witch Plan Brews up Parent Protest" Los Angeles
Times, positive.
6-11-86 - "Reader Warns Against Lies of Metaphysics" Letter to
Ed. Don Watson, Oklahoma Gazette, negative
6-12-86 - "Pagans By God" Letter to the Editor, Patrick
Mckinnion, San Diego Reader (UA) positive
6-17-86 - "Groups Unite to Fight Growing Teen Satanism", by Susan
Allen, USA Today (BADD) negative
6-24-86 - "Sex Crimes Lead To Guilty Plea" Nolan Clay, Daily
Oklahoman, negative
6-25-86 - "Each of us Holds Potential of God As His Children"
letter to Ed. Denise Rodgers, Okla. Gazette, positive
6-25-86 - "Picketing Coven" Oklahoma Gazette, positive
6-26-86 - "View Both Sides of Mind Control" Letter to Ed., Keith
Gibson (OK) Gazette, negative
7-86 - "Let Us Prey" Stephen J. Parker, Newlook, 4 pp., (UA)
negative & VERY strange
*7-7-86 - "Satanic Slaying" San Francisco, (AP-CMBBS) negative
7-9-86 - "Study of Metaphysics Can Be Frightening" Letter to Ed.,
TMB, Okla. Gazette, negative
7-9-86 - "Pomona College Witch studying Wicca Ways." by Dick
Roraback, Los Angeles Times. Positive, 4 pp.
7-17-86 - "Christian Parents Blast 'The Wizard of Oz' At Trial"
Daily Oklahoman, neutral
7-23-86 - "Ex-Cityan Charged In Death" Nolan Clay, Daily
Oklahoman, negative
*7-23-86 - "Sex Trial" by Woody Baird, Memphis Tenn. negative
(CMBBS)
*7-25-86 - "Satanic Crime"- (AP-CMBBS) Macon, Ga.
7-25-86 - "Pleas Bargain Denied in Lafayette Sex Case" by Charlie
Brennan, Rocky Mountain News, neutral
*7-26-86 - "Preschool Molest" by Linde Deutsch, L.A. (AP),
negative
*7-26-86 - "Strange Slaying," Bunnel, Fla. AP (CMBBS) negative
8-9&10-86 - "Is Satanism linked to crimes" by Thomas D. Elias,
St. Louis Globe Democrat, negative, 4 pp. (WBBBS)
8-26-86 - "Not Even In Whispers" Letter to the Editor, B.J.
Stenberg-Portland Oregonian (ED) positive
8-27-886 - "We don't worship Satan, witchcraft priestess says" by
Chris Martell, Wisconsin State Journal, positive (LH)
9-86 - "Isis Has Devil of a Time With Network Television", Isis
Newsletter, positive
9-86 - "Bewitching Salem" National Geographic Traveler, positive
*9-2-86 - "Satanic Killing" (AP-CMBBS) negative
*9-2-86 - "Satanic Cult" (AP-CMBBS) North Carolina, negative
9-22-86 - "Satanism Influenced Teen, Defense Says" Nolan Clay,
Daily Oklahoman, negative
9-23-86 - "Trial Expected to Include Testimony About Satanism"
Nolan Clay, Daily Oklahoman, negative
9-25-86 - "Teen Drew Pictures In Blood, Former Co-Worker
Testifies", Nolan Clay, Daily Oklahoman, negative
9-27-86 - "Suspect Reported Seeing Demons Fly", Nolan Clay, Daily
Oklahoman, negative
9-30-86 - "Macy, Attorney Argue In Murder Trial", Nolan Clay,
Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-86 - "America's Best Kept Secret", John Frattarola, Passport
Magazine, 12 pp., (WATCH), VERY NEGATIVE
10-86 - "Demon Possession" Raul Ries, Passport Magazine, (WN)
negative
10-86 - "Cults: Organized, Armed & Protected by the First
Amendment, by Kim Remesch-Allnutt, The Police Product News,
negative 5pp (DG)
10-1-86 - "Testimony of Psychologists Conflicts", Nolan Clay,
Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-2-86 - "Teen Guilty of Killings, Jury Rules", Nolan Clay,
Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-3-86 - "Teen Killer Gets Death" Nolan Clay, Daily Oklahoman,
negative
10-5-86 - "Teen Ager's Murder Trial Presented Basics of Satanism"
Nolan Clay, Sunday Oklahoman, negative
10-7-86 - "Fantasy Game Victim of Undeserved Attack" Letter to
Ed., Kerry Tolan, Daily Oklahoman, positive
10-10-86 - "Expert: Voodoo Chicken Disease Could Threaten Other
Poultry", Tallahassee Democrat, (CAN) neutral to negative
10-12-86 - "A Devilish Choice Noted" Letter to the Editor, R.
Lynn Green, Daily Oklahoman, neutral
10-12-86 - "Modern witches Try To Improve Ancient Image", Jenkin
Lloyd-Jones, Daily Oklahoman, positive
10-15-86 - "Game Harmless" Letter to the Editor KDH, Daily
Oklahoman, positive
10-16-86 - "Evil One Plotting Against America" Letter to Ed., S.
Smith, Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-25-86 - "Dungeons and Dragons Devilish Game" Letter to Editor,
PJP, Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-26-86 - "In League With the Devil", Glenn Gibbons, Jr,
Portland Oregonian, (ED), negative
10-30-86 - "Lawmen Tire of Haunting Rumor" Chris Kinyon, Daily
Oklahoman, neutral
*10-30-86 - "Satan Worship" Levelland, Tex. (AP-BBS)
*11-6-86 - "Devil Worshippers" (AP-CMBBS)
11-12-86 - "Fantasy Games, Deadly Fun?" by Patricia Hillyer,
Denver Catholic Register, negative (CuCo) 3 pp.
11-14-86 - "Rezoning For Wiccans Denied", Wisconsin State Journal
(CNN) neutral
11-14-86 - "Wiccan Priestess To Fight Ban By Iowa county Board"
Gene Conrad, Capital Times, Madison, (WI) (CNN) neutral
*11-14-86 - "Mysterious Remains" (CMBBS) negative
11-23-86 - Letters to the Editor, Portland Oregonian Re:
"In League With the Devil", positive
"Panning Pan"- Michael Dion, positive
"Benevolent Gathering"- Norma Joyce, positive
"Takeoff on Tabloids"- Mark Van Dyke, positive
"No Devil Devotion"- The Rev. Nestor Perala, positive
"Hopkins Hardly Holy"- Frank C. Johnson, positive
*11-24-86 - "Grave Robbing" Brownburg, Ind. (AP-CMBBS)
*11-27-86 - "Child Sex" Memphis, Tenn. AP (CMBBS) negative
12-86 - "The Rules, the Roles, The Risks of Dungeons and Dragons"
Richard White, Standard (Va. Beach, VA) (BADD) negative
12-8-86 - "Church Bomb" AP (WBBBS)
*12-12-86 - "Cistern Death"- Carthage Mo. (AP-CMBBS)
*12-18-86 - "Cult Abuse" by Ric Leyva, L.A. (AP-CMBBS)
12-9-86 - "A Boy's Love of Satan Ends In Murder, a Death
Sentence, and Grisly Memories", Michelle Green, People Magazine
(IHP) negative
12-11-86 - "Satanic Probe" (AP-CMBBS) Lincoln City, Ore.
1987
1-23-87 - "Kern Drops Satanism case" by Steve E. Swenson,
Bakersfield Californian , neutral
1-25-87 - "Salem's Official Witch, Laurie Cabot, Finds Grave
Errors in Eastwick" by Cable Neuhaus, People Magazine, positive
2 pp.
1-27-87 - "Shirley MacLaine Movie Called a Fraud" Letters to the
Ed. Don Watson, Daily Oklahoman, negative
2-87 - "Children of Yoruba", Rod Davis, Southern Magazine, 11
pp., (JM) neutral to positive
2-87 - "Satanism: The Law Enforcement Response", Robert J. Barry,
National Sherrif, 4 pp., (CAN), negative
2-87 - "Crimes of the Occult", Carole Allen w/ Pat Metoyer,
Police Magazine, 13 pp., (WLPA), negative
2-7-87 - "Cult Link Seen in Case of Unidentified Children" by Jon
Nordheimer, York Times National News, neutral
2-8-87 - "Maclaine Failed In Search for God" Letter to the
Editor, Jo Anne Coleman, Daily Oklahoman, negative
2-8-87 - Letters to the Editor Re:"Out on a Limb"
"Don't Condemn", R. Scott Taylor, positive
"Satan Fooling People", Greta Nikkel, negative
"Stop Arguing", Karem Kemler, positive
2-8=87 - "Telephone Threats to Children Put Fla. Police on Armed
Alert." Sunday Oklahoman, neutral
2-13-87 - "Double Whammy, 13th, Full Moon", Eldon Barrett &
Maureen McDonald, USA Today, neutral to positive
2-13-87 - "Fla. Child Abuse Probe Minimizes Satanism Link",
Timothy McQuay, USA Today, neutral to positive
*2-15-87 - "Satanic worship" (AP-CMBBS)
*3-4-87 - "Cult Calls" (AP-CMBBS) San Jose, CA, neutral to
negative
3-4-87 - "Party line invited teens to dial number on Satanism,
occult" by Michael Oricchio, San Jose Mercury News, neutral to
negative, 2 pp.
3-5-87 - "Expert witness denies defense's claim of a 'cult'
slaying" by Nancy Montgomery, neutral, 2 pp.
3-5-87 - "Fryman: 'They had no evidence against me'" by Bob
Musselman, negative, 2 pp.
*3-7-87 - "Margo McKee " By S.J. Guffey, Moses Lake, Wash. (AP-
CMBBS) negative
3-13-87 - "Rumors of devil worshippers in area set county on
edge" by Lesia J. Shannon, Sun-News (Myrtle Beach, SC) neutral
3-14-87 - "Cult Rumors Rattle South Carolina", by John Collins,
State (Columbia, SC) neutral
*3-14-87 - "Cult Probe", Deming, NM (AP-CMBBS)
*3-14-87 - "Cult", Deming, NM (AP-CMBBS) negative
3-14-87 - "Prank prompts statewide concern" by Elizabeth Fortner,
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, negative 2 pp.
3-14-87 - "Public fascination and fear grow over the topic of
devil worship" by Jim DeBrosse, Cincinnati Enquirer, negative,
3 pp.
*3-15-87 - "High School Principal Says Allegations of Satanic
Cult Overblown" Deming, NM (AP-CMBBS)
3-15-87 - "Police Battling Satan's evil shadow" by Charlie
Brennan, Rocky Mountain News, negative (CuCo)
3-15-87 - "Satanic gang rears its head with graffiti" by Charlie
Brennan, Rocky Mountain News, negative (CuCo)
3-15-88 - "Area rates as inferno for occult" by Charlie Brennan
Rocky Mountain News, negative (CuCo)
3-15-87 - "Police probing reports of satanic cult in N.M." (AP)
Rocky Mountain News, negative (CuCo)
3-16-87 - "Killer blames Satan for turn to crime" by Charlie
Brennan, Rocky Mountain News, negative, (CuCo) 2 pp.
3-16-87 - "Adolescents susceptible to Satanism," by Rocky
Mountain News Staff, Rocky Mountain News, negative (CuCo)
3-16-87 - "Evidence points to satanic crimes in state" Rocky
Mountain news staff, Rocky Mountain News, negative, (CuCO)
*3-16-87 - "Colorado Satanism" Denver, CO (AP-CMBBS) negative
*3-21-87 - "Finders" by Ed. Birk (AP-CMBBS)
*3-21-87 - "Jury Reccommends Death for Cult Slayer" by Susan
Kuczka, Wheaton, Ill. AP (CMBBS) negative
3-22-87 - "Old mine shaft draws satanists, police treat
gatherings seriously" by Gracie L. Lawson and James E. Smith,
Oakland Press (Pontiac, MI) negative, 3 pp.
3-22-87 - "Satanic mysteries intrigue youngsters" by Gracie L.
Lawson and James L. Smith, Oakland Press (Pontiac, MI) negative
3-22-87 - "The Witches Among Us" by Sally Norman, Cleveland (OH)
Plain Dealer, positive 4 pp.
*3-23-87 - "Manson Followers Run Prison"
3-24-87 - "Into the Dark" Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Daily, neutral to
negative
3-24-87 - "Oxford police seal mine linked to demon worship" by
Robert Ourlian, Detroit News, negative
3-26-87 - "Clarification re: Into the Dark" Letter to the Editor
Bob Bursick, Oklahoma Daily, neutral
*3-26-87 - "Canadian Witch" (AP-CMBBS) positive
*3-28-87 - "Chef Murder" Flemington N.J. (AP-CMBBS) negative
*3-30-87 - "Satanic Signs"- Oxford, MI (AP-CMBBS)
4-87 - "Which Is Witch" Letter to Police Magazine, A.J. Monaghan
& C. Allen Reed, positive
*4-2-87 - "Watson Unremorseful for Manson Family Killings,
psychiatrists say" by Michael Malinski, San Louis Obispo, (CMBBS)
negative
4-2-87 - "Prayer Session Turns Into A Devil Of a Time", Albany
(OR) Democrat, (ED) neutral to positive
4-5-87 - "Minister:Dabbling in occult dangerous" by Barry Kawa,
Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, negative 2 pp.
4-12-87 - "Children who turn to the Devil" by Judith Graffam,
Riverside CA Press-Enterprise, neutral 4 pp.
*4-13-87 - "Music Protest " by Joel Williams, Dallas Tx. (AP-
CMBBS) negative
4-15-87 - "Brewing Pagan Political Magic", Ellie Kirzner, Now
Magazine, 2 pp., (ED), positive
4-16-87 - "Little House of Horrors" by Terry E. Johnson, Newsweek
4-20-87 - "Slain baby case remains unsolved " by Genevieve
Reilly, Bridgeport (CT) Post, neutral to negative
4-26-87 - "Rock & Religion, The sounds often aren't sweet as
sides clash on viewpoints concerning music and morality", by
Shawn Ryan, Birmingham News, negative, 5 pp.
4-26-87 - "Rock music can be detrimental but won't drive you mad
all by itself" by Shawn Ryan, Birmingham News, neutral 2 pp.
4-26-87 - "What the songs really say: a look at some of rock's
stronger lyrics" by Shawn Ryan, Birmingham News, negative, 2 pp.
5-1-87 - "Are the Children Lying?" by Debra Cassens Moss, ABA
Journal, neutral 4 pp (VOICES)
*5-3-87 - "Satanic Cults" (AP-CMBBS)
*5-4-87 - "Grave Robbing" Westminster, Md. (AP-CMBBS) negative
*5-5-87 - "Wyo. Satanic Worship" Riverton, Wyo. (CMBBS) negative
5-6-87 - "Occult Crimes"Jim Bryant, Police Magazine, 5 pp. (WLPA)
negative
* 5-6-87 - "Ma-I'm no Warlock" by Dana Kennedy (AP-CMBBS) neutral
*5-6-87 - "Priest Charges" (AP-CMBBS) negative
*5-7-87 - "Ritualistic Abuse" by Roy Formanek (AP) Chicago,
negative
5-9-87 - "Salem Has The Nation ,Media Spellbound", Mark
Pillsbury, Salem (MA) News (WLPA), positive
5-10-87 - "Cults Legal, but can be dangerous" by Harry
Saltzgraver, Pueblo (CO) Chieftan, (CuCo) negative
5-10-87 - "Signs of Satanism Concern Officials" by Roger Burr,
Farmington (NM) Daily Times, neutral to negative, 2 pp.
5-10-87 - "Church may be way for youth to express rebellion" by
Roger Burr, Farmington (NM) Daily Times, neutral 2 pp.
5-11-87 - "Two Teens Testify In Sexual Attack Case", Daily
Oklahoman, negative
*5-11-87 - "Voodoo Thieves " by Linda Jones, Detroit News
negative (CMBBS)
*5-12-87 - "Satanic Sheets" Laguna Niguel, Ca. (CMBBS) AP silly
5-13-87 - "Arkansas Man Held In Attack On His Parents", Daily
Oklahoman, negative
5-13-87 - "A Political Potion.'Witch'Cabot In Mayoral Run", Mark
Pillsbury-Salem, (MA) News, (WLPA) negative
*5-14-87 - "Manson Disciple" San Louis Obispo AP (CMBBS) negative
5-21-87 - "Prison's Chaplaincy Program Needs More Counseling
Staff" Bismarck Tribune (PW), neutral to positive
*5-25-87 - "Satanic Worship" Michigan City, Ind. (AP-CMBBS)
negative
*5-28-87 - "Witch Mayor" (AP-CMBBS) positive
5-29-87 - "Witch Casts Spell On Race", Mark Pillsbury, Salem News
(WLPA), positive
*5-30-87 - "Devilish Invitations", Jeffersonville, IN (AP) silly
6-87 - "Crimes of the Occult Not A Witch Hunt: Editorial", Gregg
A Payne, Police Magazinekl, (WLPA) neutral to negative
6-4-87 - "Writers Find Salvo's Remarks Offensive To Witches",
Letters to the Editor, Salem Evening News,
"No Passing Fad" , Christine Dumas, positive
"Apology Due", Claudia Dremann,positive
"Here To Stay, B.J. Stenberg,positive
"Hatred Perpetuated", Tina Sciola,positive
"Never Again",Jo and James Dixon,positive
"Long Lasting Fad",Cathy Beer,positive
6-8-87 - "Inside the Circle of Witches Modern" by Derk Kinnane
Roelfsma, Washington Times, Insight, positived 3 pp.
6-10-87 - "Sacrifice" AP (WBBBS)
6-14-87 - "Satanistic discoveries questioned" by Nancy
Montgomery, Anchorage Daily News, negative, 2 pp.
6-20-87 - "Witches Gather" (AP-CMBBS) Lake Tawakoni, TX, positive
6-30-87 - "Satanic ritual rumors investigated" by Emily M. Smith,
Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier, neutral, 2 pp.
6-30-87 - "Official:Worship itself is legal" by Emily M. Smith,
neutral
7-3-87 - "Detective wonders how black is the magick in Oswego" by
Casey Gilmore, Binghamton (NY) Press and Sunday Bulletin,
negative
7-4-87 - "Rainbow Nation : 60's Live Again", Mike Foley, Gastonia
Gazette, neutral to negative
7-4-87 - "Counterculture Tribes Townspeople Co-Existing", Mike
Foley,Gastonia Gazette, neutral to negative
7-5-87 - "The Witches of New York" by Susanne Lingemann, New York
Daily News, positive, 2 pp.
7-12-87 - "Witches: here, but not harmful" by Steve Brewer,
Albuquerque Journal, positive, 2 pp.
7-17-87 - "Devil Worship" AP Salem, Mass, (CMBBS) negative
7-24-87 - Letters to the Editor, Prince George's Journal,
"Questions Authority to Pray to 'Our Mother'" by Rodgers Gore
(CS) negative
8-1-87 - Letters to the Editor, Prince George's Journal,
"Religious Tolerance Respect Urged" by Cybele Selene, positive
(CS)
8-87 - "Unplugging the New Age" Tim Minnery, Focus on the Family
Magazine, neutral
8-22-87 - "Reputation Undeserved, Practicing Witch Claims",
Letter to Ann Landers, Daily Oklahoman, positive
10-31-87 - "Privileged disinformation" and "The King is Dead",
Prediction Magazine, positive and neutral (AF)
9-87 - "Witchcraft" Joan Scobey, 5 pp., positive
"Altered States of Mind", Joan Scobey, positive
"One witch's Story", Lois Bourne, positive - New Woman Magazine
9-5-87 - "Witchcraft Connection Not True" Letter to Dear Abby,
Daily Oklahoman, positive
9-8-87 - "Folk Sayings Can Help You Predict the Weather", Cliff
Barr, National Enquirer, neutral to positive
9-27-87 - "Police expert warns of Satanism" by Kevin Diaz,
Minneapolis Star and Tribune, negative 2 pp.
9-27-87 - "Exorcism Performed in Home for Retarded" by Roger
Talbot , Manchester (NH) Union Leader, neutral
10-2-87,"Halloween Opponents Get School to Ban Boos", Buffalo
News, (BE), neutral to negative
10-11-87 - "When Demons Preyed pt. 1. " by Edward Baumann and
John O'Brien. Chicago Trubune, negative 2 pp.
10-12-87 - "When Demons Preyed, pt. 2." by Edward Baumann and
John O'Brien. Chicago Tribune, negative. 2 pp.
10-17-87 - "The Brigade of Light" Jerome Klein, Creative Loafing,
neutral
10-19-87 - "Professor sets record straight on movies' voodoo
caricature" by Peter A. Katz, Beverly (MA) Times, positive
10-25-87,"Witches or Wimps? You Make the Call" Alex Heard,
Washington Post Magazine
10-25-87 - "Worshipping the Goddesses" by Jim Spencer, Chicago
Tribune, positive, 4 pp.
10-26-87 - "Witches, Pagans Cast Aside Shroud of Secrecy" by
Grant Willis, Air Force Times, positive
10-26-87 - "Adherents' Motto :"If It Harms None, Do As You Will "
by Grant Willis, positive 2pp
10-28-87,"Felines Placed on Hold", Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-29-87 - "Feminism of the soul" by Margaret Trimer, Detroit
Free Press, positive, 2 pp.
10-29-87 - "Satanic" by Tom Bowman, Harrisburg (PA) Patriot,
negative
10-30-87 - "Real-Life Witch Calls Coven Home", Kevan Goff Majors,
Daily Oklahoman, positive
10-30-87 - "Halloween Big Night for Witches", Kevan Goff-Majors,
Daily Oklahoman, positive
10-30-87 - "Don't Deny Children the Fun of Halloween", USA Today,
positive
10-30-87 - "Protect out children from Evil of Halloween", Ralph
P. Forbes, USA Today, negative
10-30-87 - "More Fun For Kids than Mothers", Sherry Roberts, USA
Today, neutral
10-30-87 - "The Halloween Sadist,Bogyman for Our Time", Joel
Best, USA Today, negative
10-30-87 - "Witches a Persecuted Minority", Leo Louis Martello,
USA Today, positive
10-30-87 - "Voices From Across The USA, How Do You Feel About the
Celebration of Halloween?" USA Today , positive & negative
10-30-87 - "Some Christians find no treat in ovservance of
Halloween" by Russ White, Orlando Sentinel, negative, 2 pp.
10-31-87 - "Bewitching: Covens of the '80s Don't Match Lore
Stirred by Tales Of Halloween Past" by Carol McGraw, Los Angeles
Times, positive (WLPA)
10-31-87 - "Halloween: the sinister and the saintly, Occult
practices embrace variety of beliefs, rituals" by Julia Duin,
Houston Chronicle, positive & negative, 3 pp.
10-31-87 - "Deliverance and exorcism explained" by Julia Duin,
Houston Chronicle, negative, 2 pp.
10-31-87 - "How one Houston church marches away from ghouls" by
Cecile Holmes White, Houston Chronicle, negative
10-31-87 - The Lives and Times of Modern Witches" by Catherine
Warren, Hartford (CT) Courant, positive, 2 pp.
10-31-87 - The Good Witch" by Angela Carbone, Holyoke, Mass.
Transcript-Telegram, positive, 3 pp.
10-31-87 - Christians Decry Halloween Paganism" by Richard C.
Dujardin, Providence Journal, neutral to negative, 2 pp.
10-31-87 - "Halloween: from God to Goblin" by Jeanne Pugh, St.
Petersburg Times, neutral to negative, 2 pp.
10-31-87 - "Pastor bemoans absence of spirit" by Ted Delaney,
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, negative, 2 pp.
11-1-87 - "Satanism facts are vital for parents" by John Wilcox ,
South Bend Tribune, neutral
*11-2-87 - "Wyo. Satanic Rituals" Rawlings, Wyo. (CMBBS) negative
*11-3-87 - "Satanism"- (AP-CMBBS) San Francisco, CA, negative
* 11-7-87 - "Double Homicide" (AP-CMBBS) Rockford, IL
11-7-87 - "Satanic Material Linked to Thefts in Nichols Hills",
R. L. Smith, Daily Oklahoman, negative
11-8-87 - "Soldier calls probe a witch hunt" by Linda Goldston,
San Jose Mercury News, neutral, 2 pp.
* 11-11-87 - "Devil Worship" by Dennis Oliver, (AP-CMBBS)
Hawyard, CA, negative
11-12-87 - "Records Center Colonel Heads Satanic Religion" by
Philip Dine, St. Louis Post Dispatch, neutral, 2 pp.
11-17-87 - Letters to the Editor, Daily Oklahoman
"Witch Articles Glorify the Occult", John & Helen Crawford,
negative
"Witch Badly Needs God", Mark James, negative
11-20-87 - "Suspects' Occultism Doubted" by Paul Shell, Daily
klahoman, neutral
*11-20-87 - "Satanic claim" (AP-CMBBS) San Francisco, Ca.
negative
11-21-87 - "Cult Rumors Stir up Main towns", by John S. Day,
Bangor Daily News, negative, 2 pp.
11-22-87 - "Southeast's 'Witches' dismiss occult rumors", by
Sharon Hamric, Wichita Eagle-Beacon, neutral to negative (LL)
11-22-87 - "Satanic altars arouse fears" by John Impemba, Boston
Herald, negative, 2 pp.
11-27-87 - "Witches in U.S. Military Forces Seeking Recognition
of Religion" (AP) Daily Oklahoman, positive
11-30-87 - Letters to the Editor, Daily Oklahoman "Lady Lathina
Deserves Praise" by Rick Holland, positive
12-1-87 - "Probing the Psyches of Devil Worshippers" by Jamie
Talan, (Long Island NY) Newsday, negative, 2 pp.
12-13-87 - "Sex charges unravel Spiral of Friends" by Laura
Misch, Rocky Mountain News, neutral to negative
* 12-18-87 - "Unknown Children" (AP-CMBBS)
12-28-87 - "Police probe reports of Satan worship" by Zillah
Bahar, Dispatch (Gilroy, CA) extremely negative 2 pp.
12-28-87 - "Counselor: Band of teen-age girls tried to halt
confession by Gilroy student" by Zillah Bahar, Dispatch (Gilroy,
CA) EXTREMELY negative 2 pp.
1988
1-5-88 - "Ceremonial Blessing", Daily Oklahoman, positive
1-7-88 - "For this Detective, Staking Out Graves Is Just Part of
the Job", by Alex Kotlowitz, Wall Street Journal, negative
(WLPA)
1-8-88 - "Callers Back Courses In Supernatural" by Ron Davis
Springfield (MO) News-Leader, neutral to positive (WLPA)
1-10-88 - Letters to the Editor, Insight Magazine, Springfield
(MO) News-Leader," Springfield's Fundamentalists Seem to be on
Witch Hunt" by Lee Prosser, positive (WLPA)
1-11-88 - "Teen Kills Mom, Then Self", Gastonia Gazette (RW)
negative
1-12-88 - "Devil Worshipper Holds Sensitive Army Post and Top
Brass Say 'No Problem'" by Chris Fuller, National Enquirer,
negative
1-13-88 - "Study Leads to Tragedy", Daily Oklahoman negative
1-13-88 - "Courses in Supernatural May Arise From Dead" by Ron
Davis, Springfield Mo. News Leader, neutral to positive, (WLPA)
1-17-88 - "Reincarnation Belief Cited in Boy's Burning", Daily
Oklahoman by Paul Shell, negative
1-17-88 - Letters to the Editor, Springfield (MO) News-Leader
"Oppose Repression by Writing School Officials" by Nora Jennings,
negative (PW)
"Prejudice ,Ignorance Stifle Courses in Occult" by Jim Kelley,
positive (PW)
"Witchcraft Courses Lure Unwary to Devil's Work" by Rev. James
Mills, negative (PW)
2-1-88 - "The Dawn of Religion" by Sharon Begley w/ Elizabeth
Jones, Newsweek, historical (WLPA)
2-88 - "Satanism and Crime" Criminal Intelligence Report,
negative (WLPA) 5 pp.
2-10-88 - Letters to the Editor, Oklahoma Gazette,"Another Hoax
is Trotted Out" by Don Watson, negative
2-17-88 - "Satanists Focus on Bored, Curoius Teens, by Denise
Linke, Voice (Elk Grove, IL), neutral, 2pp (VOICES)
2-18-88 - "Devils Work" by John Pifer, The Province, negative
(PW)
2-21-88 - "Sympathy for the Devil, Students, Satanism, and
suicide" by Lisa Levitt Ryckman, Arkansas Democrat, negative, 3
pp.
2-21-88 - "Heavy metal music: Sound of Satanism?" by Lisa Levitt
Ryckman, The Arkansas Democrat, negative, 2 pp.
2-28-88 - "Discovery of Body May Rewrite European History" Fargo
N.D. Forum., historical background (WLPA)
3-88 - "Which is General witch?" Criminal Intelligence Report,
positive (WLPA)
3-88 - "Witchcraft in America" Criminal Intelligence Report",
EXCELLENT article, very negative follow up. (WLPA) 10 pp.
3-9-88 - "Sheriff Seeks Library List on Occult" (AP), St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, negative (BH)
3-12-88 - "Incidents Spark Fear of Rise in Teen Cults" by Renate
Robey, Denver Post, negative
3-18-88 - "School Deviled by Rumors" (AP) Daily Oklahoman,
negative
3-20-88 - "Parents,teacher urge action against Satanism" by
Rosanne Simborski, Fort Collins Coloradoan, neutral to negative,
2 pp.
3-20-88 - "Conversation with a Witch" by Jean Pfleiderer, Boulder
(CO) Daily Camera, positive, 2 pp.
3-21-88 - "Witchcraft and worship welcome spring" by Catherine
Warren, Hartford (CT) Courant, positive
3-24-88 - "Ultimate Evil, Ultimate Victory", By Laurie Jamis,
Bismarck Tribune, negative (PW)
3-24-88 - "Vandals Start Fires, Paint School", Bismarck Tribune,
negative (PW)
3-26-88 - "Satanic Crime Increasing? Police, Therapists Alarmed",
by Melissa Berg, Kansas City Times (BW) negative
3-26-88 - "Therapists Unlock Horrors of Cult Abuse" by Melissa
Berg, Kansas City Times, negative (BW)
3-26-88 - "Satanists Classified by Police" by Melissa Berg,
Kansas City Times, negative (BW)
3-26-88 - "Fascination With Occult Spans Centuries"- by Melissa
Berg, Kansas City Times, negative (BW)
3-26-88 - "Children may become targets of satanic torture" by
Cara Neth, Fort Collins Coloradoan, negative
4-2-88 - "Priest Sought in Connection With Mafia Narcotics Ring"
by Alex Michelini and Patrice O'Shaughnessy, New York Daily News
(PW)
4-2-88 - "Police source says most Satanists join cult to be in
its orgies" by John Maines, Jackson (MI) Clarion Ledger, neutral
to positive
3-14-88 - "Haunted by dark suspicions, an Indiana Lawman digs
into a mystery of empty graves" by Alan Richman, People Magazine,
neutral, 3 pp.
4-15-88 - "British Lawmaker Urges Outlawing of Witchcraft", AP
Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald, negative (WLPA)
4-17-88 - "State Trooper Charged With Sex Assaults", Bismarck
Tribune, negative (PW)
4-20-88 - "Crimes in the name of Satan" by Lee Hancock, Dallas
Morning News, neutral to negative, 3 pp.
4-20-88 - "Occultism: the fad of the '80's?", by Lee Hancock,
Dallas Morning News, negative, 2 pp.
4-25-88 - "Satanism" by Warren Bates, Las Vegas (NV) Review
Journal, negative, 2 pp.
5-1-88 - "Pagans, worshippers take up alternative to today's
organized religions" by Melinda Huddleston, Arkansas Democrat,
positive
5-1-88 - "Rumor of satanic cult ritual spooks McComb , children
kept home" by John Maines, Jackson (MI) Clarion-Ledger, neutral
to positive 2 pp.
5-4-88 - "Christians join in prayer against Satanic cults" by
Chip Rowe, Boise (ID) Statesman, negative, 2 pp.
5-5-88 - "Satanism reports concern local officials" by Daniel
Rice, Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, neutral to negative
5-5-88 - "Local police say Satanism on the rise" by Sharon
Curtis-Flair, Nashville (TN) Banner, negative, 2 pp.
5-6-88 - "Officer quits in dispute over grave robberies" by Beth
L. Rosenberg, Indianapolis Star, neutral to positive
5-8-88 - "Canada's most visible Witch seeks acceptance of
beliefs" by Jeff Bradley, Lawrence Journal World, positive (WLPA)
5-8-88 - "Some criminals drawn to Satanism" by Mark Skertic, Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette, negative, 2 pp.
5-8-88 - "Police learn to identify Satanism" by Darrell Dunn,
Dallas Times Herald, negative
5-13-88 - "Witch is it to be?" News Services, positive (KC)
5-15-88 - "Police mull charges against "cultists'"by John
Impemba, Boston Herald, neutral to negative.
5-16-88 - "Witches' Fight Brewing in Election of King" London
Observer Service, Bismarck Tribune, positive (PW)
5-16-88 - "Unholy Smoke!" by News Services, The Province,
negative (KC)
5-22-88 - "Satanism feared in eastern Colo. child-abuse case" by
Paul Hutchinson, Denver Post, negative, (CuCo) 3 pp.
5-22-88 - "4-year-old tells horrifying story of ritualistic
abuse" by Paul Hutchinson, Denver Post, negative, (CuCo) 2 pp.
5-25-88 - "Mutilations raise specter of Satanism" by Erin Emery,
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, negative, 2 pp.
5-29-88 - "Experts say sheriff needs help on akron abuse case" by
Paul Hutchinson, Denver Post, negative, 2 pp., (CuCo)
5-29-88 - "Johns failed to file charges on seperate occasion,
suit says", Paul Hutchinson, Denver Post, negative (CuCo)
5 & 6 -88 - "Satanism and its relationship to crime" Police and
Security News, negative (WLPA) 2 pp.
5& 6- 88 - "Satanic Groups Updated" by Herbert Peterson, Police
Marksman, negative, (WLPA) 2 pp.
5-8-88 - "Witches - The Lawrence-based Web of Oz network fights
'bad witch' stereotypes" Topeka Capital-Journal Accent, positive
(WLPA) 3 pp.
6-1-88 - "Parson Urges Christians to Bedevil Satan" by Mary
Miller, Salem Evening News, negative (WLPA)
6-2-88 - "Salem witches : We are NOT Satan Followers, Group
responds to Spiritual Warfare" by Mary Miller, Salem Evening
News, positive (WLPA)
6-7-88 - "They Sat in Nude Group" by Barbara Mc Lintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
6-8-88 - "Borrowed Rituals" by Barbara McLintock, The Province,
neutral (KC)
6-9-88 - "Ritual Kisses" by Barbara McLintock, The Province,
neutral (KC)
6-10-88 - "Marijuana Used 'as sacrament'" by Barbara McLintock,
The Province, neutral (KC)
6-11-88 - "Cult 'was really fun'" by staff reporter, The
Province, neutral (KC)
6-12-88 - "Catholic priest says satanism on rise in U.S., Denver
at center" by Virginia Culver, Denver Post, negative
6-12-88 - "'Witch show' casts a spell" by Barbara McLintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
6-14-88 - "Witch Spurns Devil Worship" by Barbara McLintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
6-16-88 - "Satanic'reminders'" by Barbara McLintock, The Province
neutral, (KC)
6-17-88 - "Pace Church Members Consign Immoral Toys to Trash
Bin.", by Allison Smith. Pensacola, Fla. News Journal. negative
(WLPA)
6-17-88 - "Evil May be Child's Play, author Says", by Dave
Goodwin,Pensacola News Journal. negative, (WLPA) 2 pp.
6-21-88 - "Amazing Witch Makes Shorties Grow and Sun Shine" by
Jack Pleasant, Examiner, positive
6-21-88 - "Ban Urged on Religious Sacrificing, Maiming of
Animals" by Scott Harris, L.A. Times, negative, 2 pp.
6-22-88 - "Witch accuser ousted" by John Trethewey, The Province,
positive, (KC)
6-22-88 - "Definitely Not Boy scouts" by Rev. Michael Marren,
Interior News, negative (KC)
6-23-88 - "Holy War?", The Province, positive (KC)
6-23-88 - "Coven god 'is Christ'" by Barbara McLintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
6-24-88 - "'They'd Kill Jesus'" staff reporter, The Province,
neutral (KC)
6-29-88 - "He Listens to the Devil" by Barbara McLintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
7-3-88 - "Spellbinding Trial" by Barbara Maclintock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
7-3-88 - "Symbols Tied to Satan" by Barbara MacLIntock, The
Province, neutral (KC)
7-5-88 - "She Thought She Was Going to Die" by Barbara
MacLintock, The Province, neutral (KC)
7-5-88 - "Searching for secrets in the stars." by alan Bunce,
Christian Science Monitor, negative (CRF) 2 pp.
7-6-88 - "Little Cult on the Prairie?" Twin Cities Reader,
negative, WLPA
7-11-88 - "Age-Old Fear of New Age Concerns." by Derk Kinnane
Roelofsma, Insight magazine, negative (WLPA)
7-11-88 - "Liberians Take Introspective look at endurance of
Witchcraft " by Blaine Harden, Washington Post, negative (CRF) 3
pp.
7-13-88 - "Witch Query Denied" by Don Hauka, The Province,
neutral
7-13-89 - "Astrologer quits county post" Washington Times,
negative (CRF)
7-14-88 - "Two Stillwater Teens Facing Death Charge" by Ellen
Knickmeyer, Daily Oklahoman, neutral
7-15-88 - "Sun a Satanist, defence argues" by Don Hauka, The
Province, neutral (KC)
7-17-88 - "Libel trial seeks naked truth" by Don Hauka, The
Province, neutral (KC)
7-17-88 - "Bismarck's shocking best seller" by Maureen
Willenbring, Bismarck Tribune, negative (PW) 3 pp.
7-20-88 - "Witch Wins Jury says televangelist libelled Lion
Serpent Sun. Sun Was Libelled" by Don Hauka, The Province
neutral (KC)
7-21-88 - "Appeal Mulled" by Don Hauka, The Province, neutral
(KC)
7-21-88 - "Thor's Back!" The Province, positive (KC)
7-21-88 - "Violence on Plane" The Province, negative (KC)
7-21-88 - "Alabama Mayor proclaims "National Voodoo Week" (AP)
Arizona Daily Star, strange (PW)
7-21-88 - "Parent Upset by 'New Age' books in child's school"
Letter to the Editor, by Geri Masters, Prince George's Journal
7-22-88 - "L.A. Investigates Afro-Cuban cult in Animal Killings"
(AP) Arizona Daily Star, neutral (PW)
7-22-88 - "L A animal tortures- killings blamed on sect," San
Francisco Chronicle, negative (WBBBS)
7-24-88 - "Tucson's ram's horns found in home of Calif.
'Survivalist' by Douglas Kreutz, Arizona Daily Star, neutral (PW)
7-26-88 - "Devil Worshiping kids; shocking confession,We killed
chickens, dogs, cats- and a teenage girl- to please Satan!"
by Jack Alexander, Weekly World News, negative
7-26-88 - "Ex-cult leader gives bloodcurdling account of evil
rite,I saw a virgin sacrificed - in the name of Satan." by Dick
Donovan, Weekly World News, negative.
7-28-88 - "God's government or zodiac signs?" Christian Science
Monitor, negative (CRF)
8-88 - "DPS Keeping Tabs on Metaphysical Groups" Omega New Age
Directory, negative
8-3-88 - "Dog's Death Creates Outrage" by Marc Conrad, Bismarck
tribune, negative (PW)
8-6-88 - "Dukakis Action Could Come Back to Haunt Him" by Glen
Johnson and Andrew Brengle, Salem (MA) Evening News, negative
8-7-88 - "Devil Worship Hits the Coastal Bend" by Shelley Emling,
Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-7-88 - "Satanism 'sucked in' local boy" by Shelley Emling,
Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-8-88 - "Teen Satanism alarms area mental-health officials" by
Shelley Emling, Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-8-88 - "Believers in occult found in rural areas" by Diana
Griego, Denver Post, negative, 2 pp.
8-8-88 - "Actual Child Abuse Often Overlooked Amid Public Uproar
Over Satanism" by Katherine Corcoran, Denver Post, neutral 2 pp
(VOICES)
8-9-88 - "Area Citizens report satanism evidence, officials say"
by Shelly Emling, Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-9-88 - "Dealing with Satanism, Personal problems underlie
cultism, health workers say" by Cindy Tumiel with Shelley Emling,
Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-11-88 - "Crisis Services Flooded by Calls on Satanic Cults" by
Dave Ferman, Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-12-88 - "Vandals Batter Carson church, Flasher rectory" by
Maureen Willenbring, Bismarck Tribune, negative (PW)
8-12-88 - "In Search of the Finders" by Joh cohe, City Paper,
neutral (WLPA) 15 pp.
8-14-88 - "Demonic Possession" by Shelley Emling, Corpus Christi
Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-14-88 - "History Matches Evil Spirits with Good Ones" by
Rosemary Barnes, Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
8-21-88 - "Pupils Return to Class After Satanic Rumor" (AP)
Washington Times, negative (BF)
8-28-88 - "Questions and Answers", Parade, Sunday News Magazine,
neutral (PW)
8-29-88 - "Born-Again Pagans by Rosemary Sawyer, Start and
Stripes, positive (WLPA)
9-88 - "Dukakis Names Official Salem Witch" by David Balsinger,
negative (WIN)
9-5-88 - "Experts Explain Lure of Cult Telltale Signs of
Practitioners" by John Christoffersen, Elizabeth (NJ) Daily
Journal, negative (CRF)
9-5-88 - "Satan worship concerns police throughout country" by
John Christofferson, Elizabeth (NJ) Daily Journal, neutral, 2 pp.
9-6-88 - "Counselors say Satanism draws teens with problems" by
John Christofferson, Elizabeth (NJ) Daily Journal, neutral (CRF)
9-25-88 - "Satanic" by Andy Mead, Lexington (KY) Herald Leader,
neutral to positive, 2 pp.
9-30-88 - "Cult rumors lead to exodus from school", by Curtis
Austin, Charleston (WV) Gazette, neutral 2 pp.
9/10-1988- "Satanism spreading" Venturing Inward, negative.
9&10-1988 - "The Weird and the Unknown" by Joseph Melnichak,
Police Marksman, negative WLPA 3 pp.
10-88 - "A Growing Darkness: Satanism in America" by Carl
Raschke, Eternity, negative 3 pp. (CARIS)
10-1-88 - "Comedian Evangelist Schedules Concert Here" Bismarck
Tribune neutral (PW)
10-2-88 - "Missing Kids all too often a myth" by Scott McKeen,
Edmonton Journal, positive (KC) 2 pp.
10-2-88 - "Therapists stunned as patients tell of satanic
rituals" by Alfred Lubrano, Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer,
negative, 3 pp.
10-3-88 - "Children's tales of satanic cults hard to ignore" by
Alfred Lubrano, Clevelend (OH) Plain Dealer, negative 2 pp.
10-4-88 - "Devil Rumors Force Photographer From Town (AP)
positive (PW)
10-7-88 - "Satanic rumors unfounded but still causing anguish" by
Frank Hutchins, Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, neutral 2 pp.
10-8-88 - "Witches of Theodore Share Beliefs" by Kathy Jumper,
Mobile (AL) Press Register, negative (CM)
10-10-88 - "Police More Aware of Cults" (AP) Bismarck Tribune,
negative (PW)
10-18-88 - "Community Residents Worried About Series of Cat
Mutilations" by Patrick Casey, Daily Oklahoman, negative,
2 pp.
10-18-88 - "Religious Cults Still Form, Researcher-Author Says"
by John Dart, Santa Rosa, Ca. Press Democrat, neutral (CRF)
10-18-88 - "Expert says satanic rites on increase" by Dorothy
Lewis, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press-Dispatch, negative 2 pp.
10-19-88 - "Satanists Trail, Dead Pets to a Human Sacrifice" by
Tamara Jones, negative 4 pp.
10-20-88 - "Halloween Welcomed Back to Two Agea School districts"
by Rebecca Cantwell, Rocky Mountain News, positive (BF)
10-20-88 - "'Fun' Killers Now Paying Devil's Dues" by Tamara
Jones, L.A. Times, negative, 5 pp.
10-21-88 - "Alleged Satanic practices probed in Chinook" by
Gordon Gregory, Great Falls (MT) Tribune, neutral 2 pp.
10-23-88 - "Satanism garnering large following thanks to pop
culture, lecturer says" by C. Eugene Emery Jr. neutral 2 pp.
10-24-88 - "Witchcraft doesn't always spell evil" by Tim
Hrenchir, Topeka (KS) Capital-Journal, positive 3 pp.
10-26-88 - "Satan's Children A cult rises in central Illinois" by
Marnie Mead, Peoria (IL) Journal Star, negative
10-26-88 - "Police officials given pointers on recognising
satanic crimes" by Lawrence Muhammad, Louisville (KY) Courier-
Journal, neutral
10-26-88 - "Devil Worship spreads in U.S." by Marnie Mead, Peoria
(IL) Journal Star, negative
10-27-88 - "Suspect in wife's Death Saw Show on Satanism" (AP)
Daily Oklahoman, negative
10-27-88 - "The rituals of Satanism: too bizarre to be fiction"
by Marnie Mead, Peoria (IL) Journal Star, negative 2 pp.
10-27-88 - "I felt I had a dark secret" by Maija Penlkis,
Appleton (WI) Post-Crescent, negative
10-28-88 - "Satanism is new way to 'get a buzz'" by Marnie Mead,
Journal Star (Peoria, IL), negative 2 pp.
10-30-88 - "Satanism Growing Police Worry" by Roger Talbot,
Manchester (NH) Sunday News, neutral to negative, 2 pp.
10-30-88 - "Witch-trial defendants' kin face resistance over
statue" New York Times Service , San Antonio Sunday Express-News,
positive (BW)
10-30-88 - "Apartment Managers Act To Halt Cat Maimers"
by Isabel Valle, San Antonio Sunday Express-News, negative (BW)
10-30-88 - "S. Texas Witches Decry Persecution" (lead story) by
Thomas Edwards, San Antonio Express-News, positive, 3 pp.
10-30-88 - "The Business of Witchcraft" by Manchester (NH) Sunday
News, positive 3 pp.
10-31-88 - "Real witches Today Don't Stew Newts, Not in
Wisconsin" by Scott McMurray, Wall Street Journal, positive, 3
pp.
10-31-88 - "Teen Interest in Cult Grows Over Years" by Karen
Haymon Long, Tribune Religion Editor, Tampa Tribune, negative
(CRF) 4 pp.
10-31-88 - "It's Only Witchcraft" by Debbie Mckinney, Anchorage
Daily News, positive (WLPA) 3 pp.
10-31-88 - "Believers Explain What Draws them to Witchcraft" by
Thomas Edwards (front page), San Antonio Express-News, positive,
2 pp.
10-31-88 - "Sadistic Worm is Slashing Cats" by Roddy Stinson, San
Antonio Express-News, negative (BW)
10-31-88 - "Witches Offer Aid on Occult Crimes" by Thomas Edwards
San Antonio Express-News, positive (CP)
10-31-88 - "Boy Cuts Wrists, Stomach" By Janell Cole, Bismarck
Tribune, negative (PW)
10-31-88 - "Rumors of satanic activity sweep state's north" by
Maryanne Mrowca, Madison (WI) Capital Times. negative, 2 pp.
10-31-88 - "It's Only Witchcraft" by Debbie McKinney, Anchorage
(AK) Daily News, positive, 3 pp.
11-1-88 - "Police tie sacrifice killings to Satanism, but
disagree on exact count involved" by Dick Cockle, Portland (OR)
Oregonian, neutral to negative.
11-1-88 - "Aurora Parents Warned of Satanism" by Angel Hernandez,
Rocky Mountain News, negative (BF)
11-3-88 - "Halloween Sets off Search for Satan" by Vicki Voskuil,
Bismarck Tribune, positive (PW) 2 pp.
11-3-88 - "Geraldo television show led to mom's slaying, teen
says" by J.D. Callaway, negative
11-4-88 - "Beg Your Pardon, No Witchcraft", Bismarck Tribune,
positive (PW)
11-5-88 - "Cross Carved in bound Girl's Head, Man and Four Girls
Facing Charges", Times Colonist, negative (KC)
11-6-88 - "Man, 4 Girls Charged After Teen Assault," Vancouver
Times Colonist, negative (KC)
11-6-88 - "Devilish Torture" by Barbara McLintock,
Province,negative (KC)
11-10-88 - "Victoria Satanism" Province , neutral (KC)
11-13-88 - "Satanic activities in Maine perplex local, state
police" by Linda McRea, Lewiston Auburn Sun-Journal, negative, 2
pp.
11-14-88 - "Halloween is the satanists' holiday" Letter to the
Editor by Rosemarie Sibley, Bismarck Tribune, negative (PW)
11-14-88 - "Locals Think Satanic Items Just a Prank" by Ishmael
Ahmad, Montgomery (AL) Journal and Advertiser, neutral to
negative, 2 pp.
11-16-88 - "Satanism in Juneau: the facts and the fiction" by
Annabel Lund, Juneau Empire, negative, 3 pp.
11-22-88 - "The Devil Made Me Do It" by Claire Safran, Woman's
Day, positive 5 pp.
11-27-88 - "Devil Worship apparently Rising in State" by Lamar
James, Little Rock (AR) Gazette, negative, 2 pp.
11-27-88 - "Daniels sees evidence of satanic movement" by Maija
Penikis, Appleton (WI Post Crescent, neutral to negative 2 pp.
11-27-88 - "Iowa pagans revive ancient rituals" by Veronica
Fowler, Des Moines (IA) Register, positive 2 pp.
11-28-88 - "Search intensifies for 'Satanic'dens" by Beverly
Ford, Boston Herald, neutral to negative
12-1-88 - "Cult Seminar Draws Response" by Susan Castro,
Southwest Advocate (Houston, TX), neutral (CRF)
12-4-88 - "The Satanism Scare" by Phil Jurik, Kansas City (MO)
Star, negative,
12-11-88 - "Troubled teens going to the devil" by Rick Murray,
Atlantic City (NJ) Press, negative 3 pp.
12-11-88 - "Satanism cults worry N.C. Police" by Libby Lewis and
Susan Sawyers, Greensboro (NC) News and Record, neutral to
negative, 2 pp.
12-12-88 - "Satan's musical scions.... or just kids having fun?
by Rick Murray, Atlantic City (NJ) Press, neutral to negative, 2
pp.
12-13-88 - "Smite your brother, is credo of satanists" by Rick
Murray, Atlantic City (NJ) Press, negative.
12-14-88 - "Satanic Assault By Girls" The Province, negative (KC)
12-15-88 - "Teens Called Prime Occult Targets" by Evie Tracy,
Crawfordsville (IN) Daily & Sunday, negative (CRF)
12-15-88 - "Moonie Kidnapping Verdict Weakens all Religions"
Letter to the Editor by Geoffrey Walker, Denver Post, positive
(BF)
12-15-88 - "Satanism and its youngest victims" by David Barry,
L.A. Herald Examiner, negative, 2 pp.
12-18-88 - "Signs of Satanism worry Officials" by A.J. Algier,
Westerly Rhode Island Sun, negative, 2 pp.
12-19-88 - "Dangers of Satanism concealed in gulf between fact,
fantasy" by Robin Brown, Wilmington (DE) Evening Journal, neutral
to negative, 2 pp.
1989
1-89 - "Satanism: Where are the Folklorists?" by Phillips
Stevens, Jr. New York Folklore (Vol.XV,nos.1-2), positive (GO) 12
pp.
1-89 - "A Rumor-Panic About a Dangerous Satanic Cult in Western
New York" by Jeffrey S. Victor, New York Folklore (Vol XV, nos.
1-2), positive (GO) 14 pp.
1-89 - "Cult Expert to Speak at Pax Christi", Courier (Winona,
MN), neutral (CRF)
1-2-89 - "Dabbling in the Occult:Teen Vandals on the Rise" by Joe
Jackson, Virginia Pilot (Norfolk, VA), negative, 4 pp.
1-3-89 - "Letter to the Editor, "Satanic Groups Abuse Pentagram"
by Archie Whitehall, Virginia Pilot (Norfolk, VA), positive
1-3-89 - "Satanism Limited, Pima Detective says," by Dan Huff,
(Tucson) Arizona Daily Star neutral to positive, pp3. (PW)
1-4-89 - "Satanism A Growing concern", Jackson Herald
(Jefferson, GA), front page, negative (CRF) 2 pp.
1-7-89 - "Psychologist to present occult seminar Sunday" by Robin
Schill, Texarkana Gazette, negative (CRF)
1-8-89 - "No Killing" (photo only), positive (BF)
1-8-89 - "Police Investigating Satanic Activities" by James
Flinchum, (Cheyenne) Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, negative
1-15-89 - "Salvation army Violated Religious Rights By Firing
Witch Judge Rules", Rocky Mountain News, positive
1-15-89 - "Reports of Satanism put police here on guard" by anne
Bothwell, Milwaukee Journal, negative 2pp
1-15-89 - "Symposium on Satanism" (front page), Missouri City
(TN) Mirror, negative (CRF)
1-16-89 - "Allegations of Satanism Shock Town" by Carol Morello,
Philadelphia Inquirer, negative 2pp
1-16-89 - "Reports of Satanism, murder plot shake Texas towns",
by Bruce Nichols, Austin American-Statesman, negative (BW)
1-18-89 - "School has talk on occult, Satanism," Whitehall (OH)
News, negative (CRF)
1-19-89 - "Sheriffs Assoc. Seminar" Mid-York Weekly (Syracuse
Market Area), negative (CRF)
1-19-89 - "Satanism: Myth or Reality?", Hubbard City (TX) News,
negative (CRF)
1-19-89 - "Claims Prove False, Authorities say satanic
allegations untrue, costly." by Debby Woodin, Joplin (MO) Globe
News, positive (CRF)
1-20-89 - "Occult Lecture", Crescent News (Defiance, OH),
negative (CRF)
1-20-89 - "Religious Leaders Seminar on Cult Phenomenon", Jewish
Floridian (Miami), negative (CRF)
1-24-89 - "Austin Satanism Limited to Minor Criminal Actions" by
John Harris, Austin American Statesman, positive (CRF)
1-25-89 - "Watch your children, Speakers Warn" by Dan Hester,
(front page), Humble Echo (Channelview, TX), negative (CRF)
1-28-89 - "Hats off to principal for doing what's right" letters
to the editor by Lisa Land Libman, Champaign (IL) News Gazette,
positive (CRF)
2-89 - "The Great Oregon Witch Hunt" by Stephanie Fox, Fate
Magazine, negative, 5 pp.
2-1-89- "Teen Satanism Reportedly Rife" by Carole A. McKelvey
Rocky Mountain News, negative (BF)
2-3-89 - "Satanism: What Parents Should Know" by Scott Ellis,
Pigeon Forge (TN) Weekly Star, negative (CRF)
2-5-89 - "Dangers of Occult Confront Teenagers" by Connie
Mulqueen, (Lawrenceville,GA) Gwinnett Daily News, negative 3pp
2-6-89 - "Satanism & cults courses for police", Albany (NY)
Eagle, negative (CRF)
2-6-89 - "Rise in Satanism Among Teens Alarms Authorities" by
Jeff South, Dallas Times Herald, neutral pp2
2-6-89 - "Cult Victims' calls for help increase," by Virginia
Hahn, Daily Pasadena (TX) Citizen (front page) neutral (CRF)
2-8-89 - "Crowd Hears About Satanic Cults" Anahuac, Tx.
Progress, negative CRF
2-12-89 - "In Harm's Way" by Bill Ruehlmann, the Norfolk VA-
Pilot, negative 3pp
2-12-89 - "Grave sites Desecrated by Vandals" by Barbara
McLintock", negative (KC)
2-12-89 - "How to combat Satan", Waterloo Courier/Cedar Rapids
(IA) Record, negative (CRF)
2-16-89 - "Mississii Brothers Accused in Plot To Kill Judge With
Voodoo Curse" (AP), Daily Oklahoman, negative
2-17-89 - "Store to Halt Anti-Catholic Book Sales" by John Perry,
Daily Oklahoman, positive
2-19-89 - "We Thought Cults Were Gone", Seattle Times, negative
(CRF)
2-19-89 - "A Conspiracy of Evil?", by Carey Quan Gelernter,
Seattle Times, positive 4pp
2-19-89 - "Tracing Satan Through the Ages" by Carey Quan
Gelernter, Seattle Times, neutral (historical)
2-20-89 - "Searching for Evidence" by Carey Quan Gelernter,
Seattle Times, positive 2pp
2-21-89 - "Skeptics Cite Various REasons for Cult Stories" by
Carey Quan Gelernter, Seattle Times, positive pp3
2-21-89 - "Modern-day witch walks a fine line" by Cynthia R.
Benjamins, Prince George's Journal, Lanham, MD, positive (BF)
2-21-89 - "Witchcraft Labeled 'largely innocuous'" by Cynthia
Benjamins, Prince George's Journal, positive (BF)
2-21-89 - "Satanism and Juveniles: Serious Threat of a Fad?" by
Carey Quan Gelernter, Seattle Times, positive pp2
2-21-89 - "Tales From the Dark Side" by Martha Szalo, (Peoria)
Journal Star, negative
2-22-89 - "Assistant DA Wants to talk to cult expert", Humble
Echo, (Channelview TX) (front page), positive (CRF)
2-22-89 - "Cult Expert Shares Insights on Topic" by Gaylon
Vickers, Uer Arlington News (Columbus, OH), neutral (CRF)
2-22-89 - "Expert:Cult involvment like drug abuse" by Gaylon
Vickers, Uer Arlington News (Columbus, OH), neutral (CRF)
2-25-89 - "Denver Witch Community shuns association with
Satanism" by Carole A. McKelvey, Rocky Mountain News, positive
(BF)
2-25-89 - "Boca Resident Specializes in Fighting Satan Worship"
by Margie Kacoha, Boca Raton News, negative (CRF)
2-25-89 - "DA Seeking 'sacrifice' information" by Virginia Hahn,
Daily Pasadena (TX) Citizen, positive (CRF)
2-26-89 - "Satanic Cults Growing in Preserves" by John Husar,
Chicago Tribune, negative (VOICES )
2-28-89 - "Police officers featured speakers at Pierre seminar
investigating Satanism and cults", Capital Journal (Pierre, SD),
neutral (CRF)
3-89 - "Evil in the Land" by Jeff Lilley, Moody Monthly,
negative, 3 pp. (CARIS)
3-2-89 - "Cults: Subject of March 9 conference, Warwick (RI)
Beacon, neutral CRF
3-3-89 - "CAJE sponsors program on issues of New Age Movement,
Intermountain Jewish News, Denver CO, neutral CRF
3-3-89 - "Questions Raised About Bob Larson Campaign" by Lynn
Cryderman, Christianity Today, positive, 2 pp.
3-6-89 - "Tale of child's ritual slaying vexes lawmen" by Bill
Disessa, Houston Chronicle, positive (CRF)
3-8-89 - "Expert offers theory on why body burned" by John Green,
Lawton (OK) Constitution, negative (CRF)
3-9-89 - "Kemp recruited into occult life witneess testifies" by
John Green, Lawton (OK) Constitution, negative (CRF)
3-9-89 - "Reader Upset with Coverage of Satan" letter to the
editor by H. Brauch, Westmont Dupage Progress (Downers Grove,
IL), negative (CRF)
3-9-89 - "Harsher Penalties sought for ritualized child abuse" by
Mark Lewis, San Antonio Light, neutral (BW)
3-13-89 - "Salvation of society lies in Christianity, not
Witchcraft" Letter to the editor by Geri Masters, Prince George's
Journal, negative (BF)
3-13-89 - " 'Hidden' Lyrice May Be In Ear of the Beholder" by C.
Eugene Emery,Jr. Providence Journal, positive
3-16-89 - "Official Denies Cult Linked to Boy's Death" by Lee
Coleman, Schenectady Gazette, positive (CRF)
3-17-89 - "Occultist religions should be outlawed" letter to the
editor by Lawrence K. Marsh, Prince George's Journal, negative
(BF)
3-17-89 - "Satanic Crimes increasing, says expert" by Kevin
Freking, Texarkana Gazette, negative (CRF)
3-21-89 - "Goddess predates God by thousands of years" letter to
the editor by Kathleen Stine, Prince George's Journal, positive
(BF)
4-89 - "Die Mother Father Brother," by Esther Davidowitz,
Redbook, neutral to positive 7
4-89 - "Seminar on Cults", Baltimore Chronicle, neutral (CRF)
4-1-89 - "Cult Awareness" photo and caption, Indiana Gazette,
neutral
4-4-89 - "Cult Awareness Conference" by Marion LaMartina, Racine
(WI) Daily, neutral (CRF)
4-6-89 - "Experts say tales are bunk" by Rex Springston, Richmond
News Leader, positive (KC) 2 pp.
4-6-89 - "Cults Seminar", Baltimore Weekly, neutral (CRF)
4-7-89 - "Psychologist to talk about cult experiences", Northern
California Jewish Bulletin, neutral (CRF)
4-7-89 - "Survivors are convinceed they witnessed ritual torture
and sacrifice" by Rex Springston, Richmond News Leader, positive
(KC)
4-7-89 - "Local believers short on evidence" by Rex Springston,
Richmond News Leader, positive (KC) 2 pp.
4-8-89 - "Seminar on cults begins Sunday night", Argus-Courier,
Petaluma, CA, neutral (CRF)
4-9-89 - "Shrink says most crazy people are.. Possesed by the
devil" by Susam Jimison, Weekly World News, negative
4-11-89 - "Mass Grave Found in Mexico" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-11-89 - "American Found in Mass Grave" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-11-89 - "Drug Cult Sacrificed 12" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-12-89 - "12 Dead, Satanic Rite Blamed" (AP) (WBBBS)
4-12-89 - "Satanism Blamed in 12 Deaths at Border," by Shelley
Emling, Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC) 3 pp.
4-12-89 - "UT Student, 11 others found slain," by David Hanners,
Dallas Morning News, neutral, 2 pp.
4-12-89 - "Mass Grave Discovered at Border" (AP) Daily Oklahoman,
neutral
4-13-89 - "Adult Meeting Set on Satanic Cults", Dundee N.Y.
Observer, neutral (CRF)
4-13-89 - "Suspected Cult Leader Sought in U.S., Mexico," Dallas
morning News, negative
4-13-89 - "Clements Questions Mattox aearance," by Wayne Slater,
Dallas Morning News.
4-13-89 - "Kilroys Blame Drugs for Son's Death" by Bruch Nichols,
Dallas Morning News, neutral
4-13-89 - "Tourists Abandon Matamoros" by Bruce Nichols and Anna
Macias", Dallas Morning News, neutral
4-13-89 - "Matamoros Massacre" Editorial, Dallas Morning News,
(emphasis on drug abuse NOT occult activity), positive
4-13-89 - "Mexico Police Seek More Bodies, Ringleader in Satanic
Murders (front page), Daily Oklahoman, negative, 2 pp.
4-13-89 - "Cult Leader Sought In U.S.,Mexico" by Lee Hancock,
(lead story), Dallas Morning News, negative
4-13-89 - "Cult Godfather Hunted" by Julie Morris, USA Today,
negative
4-13-89 - "Cult Members Confess to Slayings" by Shelley Emling,
Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC)
4-14-89 - "Mexican Police Order Cult Suspect to Dig Up Grave"
(AP), Daily Oklahoman, negative
4-14-89 - "The Smoking Gun? Law officials finding link between
the occult, drug violence," by Shelley Emling, Corpus Christi
Caller Times, negative (IOC) 3 pp.
4-14-89 - "We Don't Understand Those Things, if she did them,"
Father Says" by Armando Villafranca, Corpus Christi Caller Times,
negative (IOC) 2 pp.
4-14-89 - "Remains of 13th Victim Discovered" by Eloy O. Aguilar,
Corpus Christi Caller Times, negative (IOC) 3 pp.
4-14-89 - "Mexicans Descend on Matamoros in Search of Missing
Relatives" by Joel Williams, Dallas Morning News, negative
4-14-89 - "1100 Gather at Anti-Satan Meetings" by Patricia
Salisbury, New Federalist, negative (GO)
4-14-89 - "Cult Killings" by Peter Eisner, New York Newsday,
negative (KC) 3 pp.
4-14-89 - "Devil cultist forced to dig up 13th body" by Tina
Barneburg, San Antonio Express-News, negative (BW) 2.pp
4-14-89 - "Two-day seminar on Satanism begins today" San Antonio
Express-News, neutral (BW)
4-15-89 - "Desperate Families Look for Relatives" (AP), Daily
Oklahoman, negative
4-16-89 -"Cult of Death" by Jacque Crouse, Insight, neutral (BW)
2 pp.
4-16-89 - "Satanic cult puts black mark on local witches" by
Thomas Edwards, positive, (BW)
4-16-89 - "At first, Kilroy's disappearance looked like spring
break scrape" by Tina Barneburg, San Antonio Sunday Express-News,
negative (BW)
4-16-89 - "New site eyed in occult probe" (AP) San Antonio Sunday
Express-News, negative (BW)
4-18-89 - "Man Arrested in Ritual Deaths" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-18-89 - "Cult 'Witch' Ordered Killed?" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-18-89 - "Cult Victims Drug Pushers?" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-18-89 - "11 Indicted in Cult Slayings" (AP) negative (WBBBS)
4-18-89 - "Cults dangers, lure explained to county PTAs" by Nancy
K. Urban, Beaver (PA) Times, negative (CRF) 2 pp.
4-18-89 - "Blue Knights & the Black Art" by Marjorie Hyer,
Washington Post, negative (AM) 3 pp.
4-19-89 - "Satan Seminar" by Bob Knight, New York Times, negative
(AM)
4-19-89 - "Witches protest 'high priestess' link" (AP) San
Antonio Light, positive (BW)
4-20-89 - "Calhan home vandalized Satanic symbol painted on
living room wall" by Monty Gaddy, Ranchland News (Peyton, CO),
negative
4-24-89 - "Cult of the Red-Haired Devil" by Richard Woodbury,
Time, negative
4-24-89 - "Ritual Murder in Mexico" by Frank Gibney Jr.,
Newsweek, negative
4-25-89 - "Witch Gets Religious Rights", Rocky Mountain News,
positive (BF)
5-7-89 - "Mexico Ritual Slayings Underscore Need for "Cult Cops"
(AP), Daily Oklahoman, neutral
5-7-89 - "Satanic Sleuth Up to Elbows in Odd Beat" (AP), Daily
Oklahoman, positive
5-7-89 - "Jews Protest Sacrifice Tale on Oprah Show" N.Y. Times
News Service, Chicago Tribune, positive (VOICES)
5-8-89 - "Cultist Ordered His OWn Killing" (AP), Daily Oklahoman,
negative
5-21-89 - "Stalking Satanists" by Richard Stewart, Corpus Christi
Times, negative (IOC)
6-5-89 - "Witch says prejudice victimizing daughter" by Raymond
McCaffrey, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, positive
6-19-89 - "Schools brand peace symbol satanic" (AP) Austin
American-Statesman, negative (BW)
6-20-89 - "Schools ban peace symbol" (AP), Colorado Springs
Gazette Telegraph, negative
6-30-89 - "Texan charged in poisoning of ancient tree", Denver
Post, negative
6-30-89 - "Treaty Oak case called witch hunt" by Sylvia Martinez,
Austin -American Statesman, strange, (BW)
6-30-89 - "Wiccans defend faith, rejecting links to child's
disaearance" by Lisa Mule, Fort Worth Star Telegram, positive
(RW)
7-5-89 - "Cat Killings at prison investigated" (Knight Ridder
Newspapers) negative
7-27-89 - "The Satanic Roots of Rock 'n Roll" by Donald Phau, New
Federalist, negative (GO) pp. 4
8-4-98 - "Scandal Over Satanism Hits Nebraska GOP Figure" by
Suzanne Rose, New Federalist, negative (GO)
8-11-89 - "A Look Behind The Satanic Game Dungeons & Dragons" by
A. Chaitkin and E. Corpus, New Federalist, negative (GO) pp. 2
8-11-89 - "Satanic Underground Can Protect Child Abusers" special
to New Federalist, New Federalist, negative (GO)
8-17-89 - "Rhode Island witches win tax exempt status" (AP)
Austin American Statesman, positive (BW)
ARTICLES OF INDETERMINATE ORIGIN AND DATE
"Your Favorite Christmas Greenery Has the Power to Repel Demons"
(BE) neutral
"Which Goddess Represents Your Attitudes & Traits?" (BE) neutral
"A Bewitching Bash" (BE) neutral
"Witch 'Church' Gains Exemption" (BE) neutral
"Witch Sues College For Holidays Off" (BE) neutral to positive
"Convict Sues for Right To Practice Witchcraft In Prison" (BE)
positive
"Witches Are Tax Exempt", Lewis Clifton (BE), neutral to positive
"20Th Century Witches: A Thoroughly Civilized Lot" Paula Vogel
(BE) positive
" Fire Goddess Jinxes Filchers" by Gerda Klein (BE) neutral to
positive
"Witch-Hunting by Taxation" by Daniel Jussim, Bateman Archives
(BE) positive
"45 Are Arrested Trying To Crash Stonehenge Rite" UPI (BE)
neutral
"Modern-day Witch uses phone rather than broomstick to cast her
spells" (BE) VERY POSITIVE
"How Modern-day witches use their white magic to perform
'helpful' miracles" Jim Barnard (BE), positive
"Witches Get Into Halloween Spirit" (AP) (BE) positive
"Witches Are Becoming Hospital Nurses! .. With Shocking Success"
(BE) positive
"They'll get Head Start on Solstice" Mike Vogel (BE) neutral
"Druids, Hiies Ring in Solstice At Stonehenge" (UPI) (BE) neutral
"Investigating Satanic Cults" by Robert Gillespie, negative
(CuCo)
"Youth Tells of 2 years at Satanic meeting", Pueblo (CO)
Chieftan, negative (CucCo) 2 pp.
"Girl Soon Learned of Pain" Pueblo (CO) Chieftan, negative (CuCo)
2 pp.
"The Strange Case of Dianne Cullam", neutral (KC) 2 pp.
"The Devil Made "Em Do It" by Charles Allen Dews (LM)
"Rumors of Satanic Worship Probed" by Kathy Jumper, Mobile (AL)
Press Register (no date)
"Fallen angels, who is stalking the children for Satan?" by Kathy
Cawthon, Portfolio Weekly (Hampton Roads, VA), negative, 6 pp.
(WBBBS)
"Sorcery Puts Soccer--- and Cats... In Bag" negative
"Being a witch could be handy in getting some help from Bush" by
Mike Kelley, negative (BW)
"Hostage describes captivity" by John Bryant, Austin American-
Statesman, negative (BW)
"Police say woman lied about abduction" by Morgan Montalvo,
Austin American-Statesman, positive (BW)
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