Zjawisko rytualnego wykorzystywania – satanizm
The phenomen of satanic ritual abuse

Summary/Abstract: Claims by children that they were ritually abused first surfaced in the US in about 1983. By mid-1984, the number of such reports had skyrocketed, and by the end of 1987, child protection agencies and police across the country had validated about 100 such cases. About the same time, a spate of rumors, or „urban legends” with Satanist themes began spreading throughout the country. Concurrently, a small number of people, mostly women, became the focus of media reports with lurid claims about having escaped from satanic cult that tortured them as children. During the 1970s, women diagnosed as suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, while undergoing hypnotherapy, told therapists they „remembered” having been sexually assaulted by groups of adults performing sadomasochistic acts. Satanism first appeared in these stories in the bestselling book Michelle Remembers. In October, 1983, for instance, a California girl accused her stepfather of participating in a satanic cult that had forced her to kill an infant, eat feces, and engage in ritualistic sex.

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