Disbelief of Ritual Abuse – Accidental Cannibalism – Offside Rule Demonstration

Alison Miller is a clinical psychologist in Victoria, BC, Canada, specializing in clients who believe – either before or only after therapy – they were ritually abused as children by religious, military, political, or criminal groups. Miller takes at face value almost all of her clients’ horror stories but is resigned to the fact that the police and courts no longer seem to care much. She quotes one woman: “If a child says that daddy touched her pee-pee, the authorities take it seriously and remove that child. But if the child says daddy and mummy and granny and grandpa went out into the woods with some other people and sang strange songs and had sex with everyone and killed a dog, the authorities think that child is making things up.” Miller comments: “Sad, but often too true.”

Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse (London: Routledge, 2018 [2012]), 248.

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Ulrich Marzolph, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020), 303. In a short essay on accidental cannibalism, Marzolph mentions a legend from Muhadarat al-udaba', an eleventh-century Arabic anthology, in which a travelling scholar visiting some Bedouins “picks small pieces of meat from a suspended cord and eats them. Only when he finished, an old woman informs him that she is responsible for the execution of circumcision (khatn) of the young women of her tribe, and that she kept the leftovers of the operation to remind her of the number of operations executed.”

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Popbitch, Issue 1011

Play by pay

A rather suite story

Usually when you hear a story that starts with a record label boss throwing a party in their hotel suite, requesting that six call girls be sent up to the room, you don’t expect it to have the sort of ending you can repeat in polite company.

But when one of the founders of Global Underground did exactly that during a trip to Miami once, the only request he made of the women? That they help him demonstrate the offside rule to the Americans he was with.

 

Bottles of Water Deter Dogs (India) – School Designed by Prison Architect (MI) – Hamburgers Contain Human Meat (SC)

https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/citizens-resort-to-vermillion-mixed-potion-to-keep-stray-dogs-at-bay/articleshow/70761213.cms

Pune Mirror [India]

21 August 2019

Citizens resort to vermillion-mixed potion to keep stray dogs at bay

Residents of Kasba Peth, an area infamous for being infested with stray dogs, seem to struggle to come to terms with canines residing in their locality. […] For the lack of a better alternative and unable to cope with the human animal conflict, they are now filling plastic bottles with water mixed with vermillion and placing them outside their residences and stores in the vicinity. The potion seems to have driven away 90 per cent of the strays from the area, they claimed. […]

https://www.thenavhindtimes.in/article/whats-in-the-colourful-bottles/

Navhind Times [India]

11 October 2018

What’s in the colourful bottles?

Have you ever noticed how bottles filled with blue, purple, pink, and red liquid are kept outside several houses in Goa? These bottles are either placed just outside the entrance or in the compound or the garden area. While some people have placed just one or two bottles, others have surrounded their compound with these. Sounds strange? Well, the reason is even stranger! With stray dogs and monkeys often causing a nuisance by invading private property, it turns out these bottles are a way of keeping them away. […]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/22/new-high-school-will-have-sleek-classrooms-places-hide-mass-shooter/

Washington Post

22 August 2019

A new high school will have sleek classrooms — and places to hide from a mass shooter

[…] A $48 million major construction project at Fruitport High School [in western Michigan] will add curved hallways to reduce a gunman’s range, jutting barriers to provide cover and egress, and meticulously spaced classrooms that can lock on demand and hide students in the corner, out of a killer’s sight. […] [Architect Matt] Slagle said he was careful with his design. His firm also designs prisons, and he said it wanted to strike a balance between security and a welcoming presence without the pendulum swinging too far in either direction. […]

[Years from now will students believe that the school was originally designed to be a prison?]

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2018/01/23/creating-campus-was-jester-designed-by-a-prison-architect

The Daily Texan [University of Texas at Austin]

23 January 2018

Creating Campus: Was Jester designed by a prison architect?

Towering above neighboring buildings on the south side of UT’s campus, many students joke that the dull, dreary-looking Jester Center looks like a prison. Some even believe that a few of the dormitory’s inner features parallel those of a penitentiary. “I went into the showers and I had to bend to reach the showerheads, and someone told me the architect had designed it so that prisoners couldn’t hang themselves,” said nutrition freshman Jerrica Garza, a resident of Jester East. “Makes sense I guess.” Arguably, the most widely-believed urban legend about UT’s campus is that Jester was designed by architects specializing in prisons. I was really hoping this would be true, but it’s actually just cringeworthy folklore. […]

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http://www.indexjournal.com/news/crime/officials-dq-burgers-aren-t-made-out-of-people/article_ea508586-e7be-5936-81f2-07afa777fe11.html

Index-Journal [Greenwood, SC]

23 August 2019

Officials: DQ burgers aren't made out of people

As a blizzard of rumors circulated on social media in the aftermath of a coordinated raid in Abbeville, Greenwood and Orangeburg counties by federal agents on Wednesday, the most outlandish may have been that a popular fast food restaurant was using a wince-inducing ingredient in their burgers. Greenwood County Coroner Sonny Cox and state health inspectors are clear, however: Dairy Queen’s ground beef patties are not made out of people. […]

Tintin in America (Human Sausage Factory)

Hergé, Tintin in America (London: Egmont, 2013), 53-4, 56. Originally published as Tintin en Amérique in 1932, revised and colored in 1945, and translated into English in 1973. In one episode, Tintin, a reporter who has traveled from Belgium to Chicago to uncover crime, is invited to a cannery, where he almost ends up as an ingredient in one of its products. The factory regularly turns dogs, cats, and rats into food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_America [accessed 10 March 2019]

[…] When the second version of the story was translated into English by Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, they made a number of alterations to the text. For instance, […] the Slift factory was renamed Grynd Corp. Other changes were made to render the story more culturally understandable to an Anglophone readership; whereas the factory originally sold its mix of dogs, cats, and rats as hare pâté—a food uncommon in Britain—the English translation rendered the mix as salami. In another instance, garlic, pepper, and salt were added to the mixture in the French version, but this was changed to mustard, pepper, and salt for the English version, again reflecting British culinary tastes. […] [See Michael Farr, Tintin: The Complete Companion (2001).]