1. Buchanan's MS is mispaginated so that pages 39-41 occur twice; citations from these pages indicate the chapter. Back
2. Ritual magic's paraphernalia and mumbo-jumbo, after centuries of further exegesis and obfuscation, formed the basis for modern "occult" lore: with further distortion, it appears today in satanic abuse narratives. Back
3. The book was announced, then canceled by Compcare; an editor put me in touch with Buchanan, who kindly sent me an unedited copy of her manuscript. I have changed some names at Buchanan's request. Pages 39-41 occur twice in the MS; citations from these pages indicate the chapter. Back
4. The word "fetus" is unusual: In an exact echo of pro-life discourses, most of the satanic victims therapist Noreen McCarrick treats refer even to the supposed sacrifice of stillborns as "killing babies" (McCarrick interview). Back
5. Some explicitly religious antisatanist propaganda openly claims that abortionists are satanists (Michaelsen quoted in Best 97), or that abortion is tantamount to satanic worship (Brown, Prepare 139), but the implicit, metaphoric equations discussed here are more common. Back
6. The fable of daycare center "ritual abuse" is related to the satanic abuse fable but is too complex to be examined separately here. Debbie Nathan gives feminist critiques of daycare satanism fables in Women and Other Aliens and in "Satanism and Child Molestation: Constructing the Ritual Abuse Scare." Back
7. Like the born again student described in chapter two, Buchanan includes unconscious appeals to race and class prejudices, implying that these inner-city abductions are possible because negligent black single working mothers fail to watch their kids and have no husband to protect them. Back
8. More respectable examples of the survival genre include narratives of Indian captivity and of Holocaust survivors. Back
9. The original publisher withdrew the book when it was exposed as untrue; a less cautious publisher reissued it. Back
10. "Section on Women And Psychology" of the Canadian Psychological Association. My thanks to SWAP newsletter editor Nancy DeCourville for sending me a copy of the original article and explaining its context. Back
11. Members of the Foundation's "professional advisory board" are listed in the Foundation's goldenrod leaflet. Back