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Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America

by James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Sue Perskin. 269 pgs.

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Contributors:

   James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Sue Perskin

Publisher:

   Praeger

Place of Publication:

  Westport, CT  

Publication Year:

  2000
Subjects:   Ritual Abuse--United States, Occult Crime--United States, Ritual Abuse Victims--United States, Multiple Personality--United States
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Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America
Book by James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Sue Perskin; Praeger, 2000
Subjects: Multiple Personality--United States, Occult Crime--United States, Ritual Abuse Victims--United States, Ritual Abuse--United States
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Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
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Subjects: Ritual Abuse Victims--United States, Ritual Abuse--United States, Satanism--United States
...rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book...0-465-07181-3 paper 1. Ritual abuse United States. 2. Ritual abuse victims United States. 3. Satanism United States. I. Snedeker, Michael R. II. Title...
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Book by Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Terence Martin, David Minter, Marjorie Perloff, Daniel B. Shea, Houston A. Baker, Nina Baym, Sacvan Bercovitch; Columbia University Press, 1988
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, United States--Intellectual Life
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...not some harmless fraternity hazing ritual. For those unclear on the distinction...of the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations ban on torture. Department...the Geneva Conventions, the United States didnt have to either. Rear Admiral...
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Families Devoured in the Maw
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Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, May 13, 1997
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