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They dressed me up like this
We’ve been on a witch hunt. Look what we found.
Our witches are real. We stake our lives on it.
‘Tis the season for torture and fear. Just kidding. It’s time for costumes and pumpkins and beer. Prost.
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In the Picture Collection under Mythology & Fairy Tale –> Witches & Wizards.
Sources:
1. Jong, Erica, “Witches,” Abradale Press, 1981
2. Ingpen, Robert and Page, Michael, “Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were,” Viking, 1987
3. Maple, Eric, “Witchcraft,” Octopus, 1973
Gangs, Cults & The Occult +++
The 81 images in this folder are a glimpse into the bizarre initiation rituals and undertakings of secret societies, cults, and gangs. Pictures feature members of groups such as the Polish Falcons of America, Lion’s Club, Scientology, the KKK, Heaven’s Gate, Freemasons and its many Orders (Order of the Masonic Jesters, Order of the Royal Jesters, Woodmen or the World, Shriners, Red Men of America, Fraternal Order of the Police, Order of the Moose, Job’s Daughters, Order of the Rainbow for Girls) and of course, the Anti-Masons.
See also (related folders): Circus – Clowns (for Shriner Clowns), Ceremonies, Symbols & Symbolism.
Chick-Track by Jack Chick
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Evidence that Shriners were so proud of making it through brutal hazing rituals that they hung commercial art celebrating their result.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
A penny stamp on a colorful postcard promoted one’s favorite fraternal order.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Humorous blast warns of terrible Masonic initiations.
(Anti-Masonic Publication)
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Shriner Lodge Rituals enacted in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Order of the Rainbow for Girls
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Mask of the Woodmen of the World
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
“Binding myself under penalty of having my throat cut across from ear to ear. My tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea.”
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Ritual America by Adam Parfrey & Craig Heimbichner.
Interview, June 1991.
Members of the extremist white supremacist group, the Klu Klux Klan, hiding their faces behind masks.
Members of the Klu Klux Klan.
Interview, June 1991.
The KKK
Sightings, Vol 2, Issue 5. 1997.
Heaven’s Gate homepage
“Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite lured seemingly sane adults into a cult and, ultimately, to death in San Diego. Were they still alive, his followers might put it another way: In March, 38 of them–of their own free will–downed poisoned applesauce and vodka in order to break free of their bodily ‘containers’ and catch a ride on a passing spaceship hidden behind comet Hale-Bopp.”
Life, 1997. “The Year in Pictures.”
Gene Vincent
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