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Lots of things are construed as being occult symbols: [24]
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Please note that these are not complete (or well organized) lists.
Circles are “used for protection from evil and to contain power.”
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== Alleged Occult Symbols<ref name="Ryder"> D. Ryder, ''Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering from the Hidden Trauma'' (Compcare Publications, 1992).</ref> ==
Triangles “represent fire or male virility when pointing up, or water or female sex when pointing down. It also symbolizes where conjured demons will appear”
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*Circles are “used for protection from evil and to contain power.”
The Islamic crescent and star “represents the moon goddess Diana and the morning star of Lucifer. This symbol may be found in both witchcraft and Satanism, when the moon faces inside, it is primarily satanic.”
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*Triangles “represent fire or male virility when pointing up, or water or female sex when pointing down. It also symbolizes where conjured demons will appear”
Symptoms and other indicators of Ritual Abuse: [24]
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*The Islamic crescent and star “represents the moon goddess Diana and the morning star of Lucifer. This symbol may be found in both witchcraft and Satanism, when the moon faces inside, it is primarily satanic.”
Sleep disorders (insomnia, fear of sleeping, light sleeping, regular waking, nightmares, night terrors)
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High pain tolerance.
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== Symptoms and Indicators of Ritual Abuse<ref name="Ryder"></ref> ==
Seizures and/or epilepsy
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*Medical disorders, in particular:
Liver problems
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**Sleep disorders.
Adrenal gland problems
+
***Insomnia.
GI trouble
+
***fear of sleeping.
Genitourinary problems
+
***Light sleeping.
Chronic bladder or kidney infections
+
***Frequent waking.
Frequent skin irritations or disorders.
+
***Nightmares and/or night terrors.
Headaches and migraines.
+
**High pain tolerance.
Asthma
+
**Seizures and/or epilepsy.
Overweight
+
**Liver problems.
• Genital scarring
+
**Adrenal gland problems.
• Frequent, persistent vagina discharge
+
**GI trouble.
• UTIs
+
**Genitourinary problems, including:
• STDs
+
***Chronic bladder or kidney infections.
• Sterilization
+
***Genital scarring.
Unusual scars
+
***Frequent, persistent vaginal discharge.
Exaggerated reactions to scents of blood, excreta, alcohol, formaldehyde, burning hair, smoke, incense.
+
***UTIs.
• Exaggerated startle response.  
+
***STDs.
• Easily triggered “fight or flight” response.
+
***Sterility.
• Hypervigilance
+
**Frequent skin irritations or disorders.
• Panic attacks
+
**Headaches and migraines.
• Allergies
+
**Asthma.
• Missing digits
+
**Overweight.
• Chronic pain
+
**Unusual scars.
• Seeks out pain
+
**Exaggerated reactions to scents of blood, excreta, alcohol, formaldehyde, burning hair, smoke, and/or incense.
Aversion to drinking water (i.e., a strong preference for tea, coffee, juice, or pop)
+
**Allergies.
Extreme fluctuation in behaviors and skills
+
**Missing digits.
Self-harm
+
**Chronic pain.
Seeking abusive relationships
+
**Pain-seeking behaviors.
High-speed or dangerous driving
+
**Sexual dysfunction.
Artwork or poetry with themes of death, pain, or the Occult
+
***Hypersexuality/nymphomania.
Suicidal thoughts or attempts
+
***Frigidity.
Speaking in tongues or with extremely varying intonation
+
***"Perversions".
Substance abuse
+
***BDSM tendencies.
Eating disorders
+
*Aversion to drinking water (i.e., a strong preference for tea, coffee, juice, or pop).
Vague memories of childhood
+
*Extreme fluctuation in behaviors and skills.
Overreaction to violent or supernatural films.
+
*Self-harm.
Extreme mood swings
+
*Seeking abusive relationships.
Doodling of occult symbols
+
*High-speed or dangerous driving.
Fascination with supernatural, paranormal, or psychic phenomenon
+
*Artwork or poetry with themes of death, pain, or the occult.
Multiple psychiatric hospitalizations without alleviation of symptoms
+
*Suicidal thoughts or attempts.
Easily induced into trances
+
*Speaking in tongues or with extremely varying intonation.
Fear of being photographed or recorded
+
*Substance abuse.
Frequently switches therapists
+
*Eating disorders.
Avoids or seeks out physical contact
+
*Vague memories of childhood.
• Sexual dysfunction (hypersexuality, frigidity, perversions, BDSM)
+
*Overreaction to violent or supernatural films.
Frequent unexplained crying or laughter
+
*Extreme mood swings.
Frequent regressive behavior
+
*Doodling of occult symbols.
• Fear or negative responses to birthday and other holidays
+
*Fascination with supernatural, paranormal, or psychic phenomenon.
A sense of panic when one becomes the focus of attention
+
*Multiple psychiatric hospitalizations without alleviation of symptoms.
Compulsive hygiene
+
*Easily induced into trances.
Bedwetting
+
*Fear of being photographed or recorded.
Aversion to circles
+
*Frequently switches therapists.
Fear of talking to therapists or authority figures
+
*Avoids or seeks out physical contact.
Extreme reactions to roadkill
+
*Frequent unexplained crying or laughter.
• Diagnosed with:
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*Frequent regressive behavior.
o Multiple personalities
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*A sense of panic when one becomes the focus of attention.
o Dissociative disorder
+
*Compulsive hygiene.
o Paranoid schizophrenia
+
*Bedwetting.
o Borderline personality disorder
+
*Aversion to circles.
o Manic depression and or / bipolar
+
*Fear of talking to therapists or authority figures.
o Psychosis
+
*Extreme reactions to roadkill.
o Addiction
+
*Diagnoses of mental illnesses, specifically:
o Depersonalization
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**Multiple personalities.
o PTSD
+
**Dissociative disorder.
o Amnesia, fugue states, or unexplained losses of time
+
**Paranoid schizophrenia.
• Drawn too or repulsed by books, art, etc. with occult themes.
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**Borderline personality disorder.
Imagined taste of blood in the mouth
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**Manic depression and or / bipolar.
• Claustrophobia
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**Psychosis.
Pervasive sense of impending doom
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**Addiction.
Convinced they are “possessed,”  “evil,” or externally controlled.  
+
**Depersonalization.
Imaginary friends
+
**PTSD, with an emphasis on the following symptoms:
• Intense paranoia or dreams of family being hurt or killed.
+
***Exaggerated startle response.
• Auditory or visual hallucinations
+
***Easily triggered “fight or flight” response.
A sense of surrealism or unreality.
+
***Hypervigilance.
Binary thinking
+
**Panic attacks.
A sense of “being dead”
+
**Amnesia, fugue states, or unexplained losses of time
Contempt or rage at Christianity
+
**Intense paranoia or dreams of family being hurt or killed.
Different handwriting styles
+
**Auditory or visual hallucinations.
Exaggerated trust issues.
+
**Being drawn too, or repulsed by, occult-themed books, art, etc.
Bizarre displays of cruelty
+
**Imagined taste of blood in the mouth
• Marked decline in grade
+
**Pervasive sense of impending doom
• Fascination with the metal music genre
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**Convinced they are “possessed,”  “evil,” or externally controlled.  
Marked decline in grades
+
*Imaginary friends
High truancy rate
+
*A sense of surrealism or unreality.
Compulsive interest in fantasy role-playing games.
+
*Binary thinking.
• Flat or blunted affect
+
*A sense of “being dead”.
Claims of seeing hauntings
+
*Contempt or rage at Christianity.
Acquired items they cannot account for
+
*Different handwriting styles.
Referring to self as “we,” not “I.”
+
*Exaggerated trust issues.
• Unusual fear or phobias.
+
*Bizarre displays of cruelty.
Denial of behavior witnessed by others
+
*Marked decline in grades.
• Fear of abandonment or institutionalization.
+
*High truancy rate.
Obsessions with:
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*Compulsive interest in fantasy role-playing games (e.g., Dungeons & Dragons).
o Death
+
*Claims of seeing hauntings.
o Corpse of people/animals
+
*Acquired items they cannot account for.
o Costumes and masks
+
*Referring to themselves with the plural “we” instead of the singular “I.”
o Fire
+
*Denial of behavior witnessed by others
o Violent movies and books
+
*Obsessions with:
o Mutilation of self or others
+
**Death.
o Telephones
+
**Corpses of people or animals.
o The colors red, white, or black
+
**Costumes and masks.
o Raw meat
+
**Metal music.
o Blood
+
**Fire.
o Feces/urine
+
**Violent movies and books.
o Satan/Demons
+
**Mutilation of self or others.
o Knives and other sharp objects
+
**Telephones.
o Menstruation
+
**The colors red, white, or black.
• Fear of:
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**Raw meat
o Christian symbolism and artifacts
+
**Blood.
o Churches
+
**Feces/urine.
o Authority figures
+
**Satan/Demons.
o Prisons
+
**Knives and other sharp objects.
o Hospitals
+
**Menstruation.
o Medication
+
*Unusual fear or phobias. Usually, these are fears of:
o Surgery
+
**Christian symbolism and artifacts.
o Bones
+
**Churches.
o Needles
+
**Authority figures.
o Blood
+
**Abandonment and/or institutionalization.
o Feces/urine
+
**Prisons.
o Coffins, boxes, or cages
+
**Hospitals.
o Cemeteries
+
**Medication.
o Rope, chain, wire
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**Surgery.
o Raw meat
+
**Bones.
o Crying babies
+
**Needles.
o Pregnancy
+
**Blood.
o Pits or holes
+
**Feces/urine.
o Certain letter or number configurations
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**Cemeteries.
o Certain animals, like:
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**Rope, chain, wire.
Goats
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**Raw meat.
Cows
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**Crying babies.
 Pics
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**Pregnancy.
Spiders
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**Pits or holes.
Rabbits
+
**Birthdays and other holidays.
Cats
+
**Certain letter or number configurations.
Dogs
+
**Confined spaces, especially Coffins, boxes, or cages.
Birds
+
**Animals, in particular:
Rats
+
***Goats.
Snakes
+
***Cows.
o Cameras or video equipment
+
***Pigs.
o Electric shock
+
***Spiders.
o Hypnosis or relaxation techniques
+
***Rabbits.
o Mirrors
+
***Cats.
o Receiving mail or phone calls
+
***Dogs.
o The colors red, black , or white
+
***Birds
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***Rats.
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***Snakes.
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**Cameras or video equipment.
 +
**Electric shock.
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**Hypnosis or relaxation techniques.
 +
**Mirrors.
 +
**Receiving mail or phone calls.
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==References==
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Latest revision as of 04:33, 28 September 2017

Please note that these are not complete (or well organized) lists.

Alleged Occult Symbols[1]

  • Circles are “used for protection from evil and to contain power.”
  • Triangles “represent fire or male virility when pointing up, or water or female sex when pointing down. It also symbolizes where conjured demons will appear”
  • The Islamic crescent and star “represents the moon goddess Diana and the morning star of Lucifer. This symbol may be found in both witchcraft and Satanism, when the moon faces inside, it is primarily satanic.”

Symptoms and Indicators of Ritual Abuse[1]

  • Medical disorders, in particular:
    • Sleep disorders.
      • Insomnia.
      • fear of sleeping.
      • Light sleeping.
      • Frequent waking.
      • Nightmares and/or night terrors.
    • High pain tolerance.
    • Seizures and/or epilepsy.
    • Liver problems.
    • Adrenal gland problems.
    • GI trouble.
    • Genitourinary problems, including:
      • Chronic bladder or kidney infections.
      • Genital scarring.
      • Frequent, persistent vaginal discharge.
      • UTIs.
      • STDs.
      • Sterility.
    • Frequent skin irritations or disorders.
    • Headaches and migraines.
    • Asthma.
    • Overweight.
    • Unusual scars.
    • Exaggerated reactions to scents of blood, excreta, alcohol, formaldehyde, burning hair, smoke, and/or incense.
    • Allergies.
    • Missing digits.
    • Chronic pain.
    • Pain-seeking behaviors.
    • Sexual dysfunction.
      • Hypersexuality/nymphomania.
      • Frigidity.
      • "Perversions".
      • BDSM tendencies.
  • Aversion to drinking water (i.e., a strong preference for tea, coffee, juice, or pop).
  • Extreme fluctuation in behaviors and skills.
  • Self-harm.
  • Seeking abusive relationships.
  • High-speed or dangerous driving.
  • Artwork or poetry with themes of death, pain, or the occult.
  • Suicidal thoughts or attempts.
  • Speaking in tongues or with extremely varying intonation.
  • Substance abuse.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague memories of childhood.
  • Overreaction to violent or supernatural films.
  • Extreme mood swings.
  • Doodling of occult symbols.
  • Fascination with supernatural, paranormal, or psychic phenomenon.
  • Multiple psychiatric hospitalizations without alleviation of symptoms.
  • Easily induced into trances.
  • Fear of being photographed or recorded.
  • Frequently switches therapists.
  • Avoids or seeks out physical contact.
  • Frequent unexplained crying or laughter.
  • Frequent regressive behavior.
  • A sense of panic when one becomes the focus of attention.
  • Compulsive hygiene.
  • Bedwetting.
  • Aversion to circles.
  • Fear of talking to therapists or authority figures.
  • Extreme reactions to roadkill.
  • Diagnoses of mental illnesses, specifically:
    • Multiple personalities.
    • Dissociative disorder.
    • Paranoid schizophrenia.
    • Borderline personality disorder.
    • Manic depression and or / bipolar.
    • Psychosis.
    • Addiction.
    • Depersonalization.
    • PTSD, with an emphasis on the following symptoms:
      • Exaggerated startle response.
      • Easily triggered “fight or flight” response.
      • Hypervigilance.
    • Panic attacks.
    • Amnesia, fugue states, or unexplained losses of time
    • Intense paranoia or dreams of family being hurt or killed.
    • Auditory or visual hallucinations.
    • Being drawn too, or repulsed by, occult-themed books, art, etc.
    • Imagined taste of blood in the mouth
    • Pervasive sense of impending doom
    • Convinced they are “possessed,” “evil,” or externally controlled.
  • Imaginary friends
  • A sense of surrealism or unreality.
  • Binary thinking.
  • A sense of “being dead”.
  • Contempt or rage at Christianity.
  • Different handwriting styles.
  • Exaggerated trust issues.
  • Bizarre displays of cruelty.
  • Marked decline in grades.
  • High truancy rate.
  • Compulsive interest in fantasy role-playing games (e.g., Dungeons & Dragons).
  • Claims of seeing hauntings.
  • Acquired items they cannot account for.
  • Referring to themselves with the plural “we” instead of the singular “I.”
  • Denial of behavior witnessed by others
  • Obsessions with:
    • Death.
    • Corpses of people or animals.
    • Costumes and masks.
    • Metal music.
    • Fire.
    • Violent movies and books.
    • Mutilation of self or others.
    • Telephones.
    • The colors red, white, or black.
    • Raw meat
    • Blood.
    • Feces/urine.
    • Satan/Demons.
    • Knives and other sharp objects.
    • Menstruation.
  • Unusual fear or phobias. Usually, these are fears of:
    • Christian symbolism and artifacts.
    • Churches.
    • Authority figures.
    • Abandonment and/or institutionalization.
    • Prisons.
    • Hospitals.
    • Medication.
    • Surgery.
    • Bones.
    • Needles.
    • Blood.
    • Feces/urine.
    • Cemeteries.
    • Rope, chain, wire.
    • Raw meat.
    • Crying babies.
    • Pregnancy.
    • Pits or holes.
    • Birthdays and other holidays.
    • Certain letter or number configurations.
    • Confined spaces, especially Coffins, boxes, or cages.
    • Animals, in particular:
      • Goats.
      • Cows.
      • Pigs.
      • Spiders.
      • Rabbits.
      • Cats.
      • Dogs.
      • Birds
      • Rats.
      • Snakes.
    • Cameras or video equipment.
    • Electric shock.
    • Hypnosis or relaxation techniques.
    • Mirrors.
    • Receiving mail or phone calls.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 D. Ryder, Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering from the Hidden Trauma (Compcare Publications, 1992).