Soon after (1994) Lanning released his FBI case studies, and the nation, embarrassed, started to put the entire thing in a box under the bed, although many defendants stayed in prison for years later. Maybe this broke the spell of the “ Believe the Children” mindset. The Faith Chapel ritual abuse case in 1991 marked the first major “not guilty”, with amazing accusations (ritual sacrifice of a giraffe and an elephant), and mundane but impossible (a staffer, who because of a genetic disorder wasn’t physically able to drive, accused of driving the children to and from their secret off-site abuse warehouse). The wind-down seems to be a number of factors: rationality seemed to come from a number of sources as the ridiculousness of the accusations grew and became more apparent. The high point of the satanic panic scare seems to be 1985-1990. Incidentally there’s a callout to Cohn in the excellent article that traces the whole blood ritual idea into the weird realm of QAnon conspiracy, Talia Lavin’s “ QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic.”
The podcast “ Conviction” on Gimlet was also helpful, as was Uncover’s short series on same. Some reading resources: the Wikipedia article is good, Victoria recommends Vox’s excellent articcle, “ The History of the Satanic Panic in the US – and Why It’s Not Over Yet.” Jacob leans heavily on Jeffrey Victor’s 1993 Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend, Norman Cohn’s Europe’s Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom, and FBI agent Kenneth Lanning’s Guide to Allegations of Childhood Ritual Abuse. (Image at right from CBR.com, “ Why Gwendoline Christie is the Perfect Choice to Play Lucifer.”)Īn awful lot of ink and pixels have already been spilled on this topic, a cultural obsession over satanism in the 80s and early 90s, leading to something like 12,000 allegations of cult sexual abuse of children…a number of them targeting daycare employees and educators, parents, and other people that children were close to. Gwendoline is NOTHING LIKE Lucifer in the Wicked and the Divine graphic novel series, who is also somewhat androgynous but in a different direction. and Asim Chaudry looks just spot on as Abel, at least in the later versions of the character. Dispatchist favorites: Gwendoline Christie played Brianne of Tarth in Game of Thrones, and will be taking on the role of Lucifer in the upcomign series…and not for the first time, as she played him in a 2010 production of Doctor Faustus.
(If you’re not a fan, “My God, it’s full of stars” is a line-drop from “2001, A Space Odyssey.”įrom the Sandman world, seven cast members have been announced for the series so far. Article from the Smithsonian with (English) information. These pictures are delicate and have only beeen shown twice before, so this is kind of special, particulary if you’re a Dante fan. The exhibit is titled “ To See the Stars Again,” and is running…uh…until it isn’t. The Uffizi gallery has opened a virtual collection of cartoons and sketches by the 16th century artist Federico Zuccari, illustrations from Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. It’s got a skull on the label, so you’ve been warned.ĭante news, which there’s a surprising amount of, but almost always in Italy. It’s fermented and has onion, lemon, horseradish, habanero, mustard, allspice, and some other things in it.
But it sounds like we’ll need to talk about his alter-ego Phra Malai someday, a monk who more or less harrowed hell.īeverage-wise, Victoria recommends “Demonic Tonic,” which is either a light golden style Belgian ale, or a robust medicinal remedy and/or marinade from Happy Pantry.
Generally, he’s a patron of people who suffer in the underworld, so…I’m not sure if we have a place for him in our office. Jizo is there to help them out and wrap them in his robes. In our epiosode on the rivers of hell we talked about the Sanzu River, wherethe spirits of children are condemned to stack pebbles to build a tower to heaven, but they can never finish because demons knock them down. He’s a patron of travellers and children. We start with a round of drinks and Japanese gods! Our guest Jason has a few words to say about the popular spiritual figure (God? Not quite? A version of the Buddha?) Jizo.