Thanks for that Dave!

I will re-email those emails to the kind folk who have replied to me 
directly.

Regarding the Satanic Calendar one can find it if one googles www 
survivorship . org / resources /  altcalendar
should work with or without the gaps I put them in to fool your  filter.

regards

Melissa.
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Hi Melissa,

The list does not permit attachments as a quick way of avoiding viruses, 
spam, etc. It can be very frustrating.

Dave

Dr Dave Green

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM): 
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Dear Sabina.

Thank you for letting me know about the links, I don't get a copy of mail I
send to the forum, I have tried again here.  If it does not work I can give
people the key words that go straight to these articles. And thanks also for
your response, do you, or anyone else here, have any more information about
these right-wing Christian extremists who have conconcted the calendar  from
a variety of sources to "inform" law enforcement about "Satanic ritual
crime." ? Obviously Jean la Fontaine's work on the British satanic panic in
the  1980s  is an important resource in such matters, but is there any new
scholarly or concrete information on these newer developments? I had really
not thought I would end up here in such a paper, 20 minutes on "Elf knots,
mysteries since Shakespeare and beyond, now solved by Horse and Hound
Magazine readers" seemed so pleasant; yet in dealing with stories of Witches
it all too often comes back to this terrible battle that is waged without
end by those who want to fight the "forces of darkness" by means fair or
foul!

best regards

Melissa



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085564/Eric-horse-sacrificed-Satanic-ritual.

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4060369/Cornwalls-fear-after-ritual-slaughter-of-horses.html

http://www.survivorship.org/index.html

http://www.survivorship.org/resources/altcalendar.html

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Dear Melissa,

The links you promised to attach did not go through, but if the "Satanic
calendar" is anything like a similar piece of folklore circulating in the
US, it has no correspondence to anything that modern Satanists practice.
Instead, it is the product of a small number of right-wing Christian
extremists who have conconcted it from a variety of sources to "inform" law
enforcement about "Satanic ritual crime."  This links up to the Satanic
legend complex of the 1980s, which is returning in new guise or, in some
cases, never fully subsided.

Fascinating project, BTW!

All the best,
Sabina

Sabina Magliocco
Professor
Department of Anthropology
California State University - Northridge
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Dear All

I am starting on a paper for the Folklore Society's AGM in April on Urban
Folklore. My original abstract is relatively simple for a very nice topic -
early examples of folklore on mystery braids in horses manes linked to
witches and fairies that have reached the modern day almost intact, how the
folklore may have started, how it is perpetuated today by press, police and
ignorance, and how social networking may be ending this long running myth.
Much as I wanted to avoid this,  and though the link is yet small, it seems
the subject is merged at the edges with  the understandable hype and fear
round horse mutilations, and how they are linked to Satanism in the press. I
have added 4 links below, one shows how detailed such accounts are, the next
shows how totally unconnected Pagans are linked to it, in this case taking
photos from Cornwall's village Witches’ web site and adding them in, and the
next two links show what may be a source for the mysterious St Winebald's
Day, apparently one of ritual sacrifice on which one may expect one's horses
to be slaughtered. It seems like it is the old chestnut of fundamentalists
and recovered memory nutters feeding press with such calendars, in which
they include modern Pagan dates, in which case there may be new urban
folklores starting with echoes of the SRA events of the late 20th century.
However, unlike the braiding which seems to be simple “wind knots” rather
than “witch knots”,  there have been reports of horrible animal mutilations
over the years that do seem to be ritualised in some ways, this is probably
the activity of sinister nutters, but what kind of nutter and why?

I would value comments on any aspect of this from people on this forum, and
particularly those who are scholars of contemporary Satanism, could you
comment on these calendars please, I have never heard of half these
"festivals", are any of these dates celebrated, is there any link with
modern Satanic rites and any of these purported saints days, revels, feasts
etc?

Many thanks

Melissa=