ITEM FROM THE BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL. FRIDAY OCTOBER 5, 1990. MUM TELLS HOW SHE WAS LURED

                ITEM FROM THE BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL.
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                       FRIDAY OCTOBER 5, 1990.
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         MUM TELLS HOW SHE WAS LURED INTO A SATANISTS' COVEN.
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                  MY TORTURED LIFE AS A BLACK WITCH.
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Devil  worship  and child abuse have hit the  headlines  in  Rochdale-
sparking fears for children everywhere.

Womans editor,  FIONA MURRY reports on a former Midland witch who  was
drawn into a black coven where she witnessed child abuse.

     Audrey Harper was a loser,  a drifter and a  prostitute.  Looking
back, she realises she was easy prey for the evil people who lured her
into a Satanic coven.

     Since the day she was born, her life lacked security, comfort and
love.  She  was abandoned by a mother who couldn't afford to bring  up
another child.

     It  was  the  start  in life that eventually  led  her  into  the
nightmare  world of black magic.  Audrey,  now 50,  says she became  a
black witch.

     In  "Dance  With the Devil",  a new  book  published  today,  the
Stourport woman tells of child abuse and sacrifice-and how she  turned
to Christianity to escape.

     If  it  is true,  her story supports the growing  fear  that  muh
child abuse is linked to Satanism.
     While  living in rough in London and dabling in  shoplifting  and
prostitution,  Audrey was picked up and taken to a party in SURREY. It
was Hallowe'en 1961 and she was 21.

                               WARLOCK
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     But  it was no party-it wasa coven of Satan worshippers  and  she
was to be initiated.
     In the most appalling revelation of the book,  Audrey reveals how
that night she saw the sacrifice of a baby, only days old.

     "I  didn't know at the time that babies born to  the  coven,  and
farthered  by  the warlock(the leader of the coven),  are bred  to  be
sacrificed."

     "Thats the whole purpose of having them,  and they are sacrificed
before  they are registered so they are not missed by  society,"  said
Audrey.

     She  now travels to country speaking against witchcraft and  said
the West Midlands was buzzing with black magic.

     One  young local woman was taken to a coven by her  parents.  She
was  made  pregnant  four  times by the  warlock  and  each  baby  was
sacrificed, said Audrey.

                               CHURCHES
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     She  is surprisingly frank about her feelings as a girl when  she
became a witch: "I was quite  pleased to be one. I wanted the powers I
thought  witches had,  possibly because all my life I'd never had  any
power."
     Audrey still lived on the streets,  but she was obsessed with her
'other  life'  with  the  coven  where  she  took  part  in  sickening
dececrations of churches and grave-yards.
     Perhaps her most terrible action was luring other young  drifters
into  danger.  Wide-eyed young runaways were drawn to a party  by  the
promise of food, drink and company.
     As  she  got deeper and deeper into a  heroin  habit,  which  was
supplied by the warlock,  her scruples were overcome by her need for a
fix.
     Audrey's life spiralled downwards into the murky, sleazy world of
drugs. She was such a mess that even the coven no longer wanted her.

     But they said she would never be free of Satan: "Wherever you go,
whatever you do,  you will never have peace of mind.  You deserted  us
and Satan will pursue you."

     After auicide attempts,  drug overdoses and spells in drying  out
clinics   and  psychiatric  hospitals,   Audrey  found  salvation   in
BIRMINGHAM.

     She drifted here and became a patient at ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL drug
addiction unit.
     And it was in Birmingham that the demons were finally driven  out
of her by ROY DAVIES, then minister of the Emmanuel Pentecostal church
in STOURPORT.
     Audrey was married by then,  had a baby and was attending  church
reluctantly with her husband, but she was still deeply troubled.

     She had murderous desires towards her child,  which she blamed on
Satan.

                                FREE.
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Roy  Davies  realised the dark secret of Audrey's past and  helped  to
exorcise her.

     Audrey left Roy Davies that night,  free for the first time since
she encountered the Satanic coven.  Her story is so remarkable that it
is hard to believe that such things go on.

     DANCE WITH THE DEVIL BY AUDREY HARPER & HASRRY PUGH IS  PUBLISHED
TODAY BY KINGSWAY PUBLICATIONS, PRICED L3.50.

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