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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Recovered Memories Lawsuit, Birthday of the Bab

Thursday October 20, 2005

A Pennsylvania woman is suing her psychiatrist, claiming he used hypnotic trance and other methods to implant false memories of satanic ritual abuse, murder, and other fantastic happenings. This just after news of the murder of a California woman, the wife of a California lawyer who was defending a woman accused of murdering her psychiarist husband, a man who had lectured on the alleged "satanic ritual abuse"of his own son. It gets weirder with a teen suspect accused of being a Satanist. (Just what is the "Book of Satan," exactly?)

Kids who spray painted "Satanic" symbols on a church may be charged with a hate crime.

Today is celebrated as the birth of the Bab, the Shi'ite religious reformer whose followers founded the Baha'i Faith.

Fun stuff for Halloween:

Sedlec Ossuary

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