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Dance with the Devil
202 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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March 7, 2013
This book is a very graphic account of the dangers of becoming involved with the occult. It is a true story and some parts are very disturbing and upsetting. However, it does highlight the power of God to redeem us from the clutch of the enemy.
June 30, 2020
This book is shocking and disturbing with the author's accounts of being involved in the murder of a baby, becoming a satanist and committing all kinds of criminal offences.
But what will shock you most is when you realise the author is claiming these events really happened, rather than being an outline for some Hammer style horror story.
And her claims are about as believable as a horror film.
She regularly contradicts herself, she drifts into vagueness whenever details are needed to substantiate her story. Despite apparently being a member of a satanic group for many years and being party to terrible crimes, she can remember no names or locations, even details of people she claims to have been in contact with weekly for many years.
The most damning fact about this author is that she appeared on television with her claims in 1988 – an appearance that prompted a police investigation – and that no evidence was found to proceed against anyone – including her.
So many of her claims are impossible to believe that it is difficult to know where to start in reviewing her work. Here is one example – Harper claims that satanists are killing people all over the country and hiding the bodies in old graves. i.e. - they dig up an old grave and add the new body .
Now, old graves will be very compacted and take hours to dig out. Can you imagine people really wouldn't notice a bunch of satanists trying to do this sneakily in the middle of the night with lights, tools, etc.? After all, aren't cemeteries usually close to centres of population.
I could go on, but it really would be a mammoth task. Don't waste your time on this title.
But what will shock you most is when you realise the author is claiming these events really happened, rather than being an outline for some Hammer style horror story.
And her claims are about as believable as a horror film.
She regularly contradicts herself, she drifts into vagueness whenever details are needed to substantiate her story. Despite apparently being a member of a satanic group for many years and being party to terrible crimes, she can remember no names or locations, even details of people she claims to have been in contact with weekly for many years.
The most damning fact about this author is that she appeared on television with her claims in 1988 – an appearance that prompted a police investigation – and that no evidence was found to proceed against anyone – including her.
So many of her claims are impossible to believe that it is difficult to know where to start in reviewing her work. Here is one example – Harper claims that satanists are killing people all over the country and hiding the bodies in old graves. i.e. - they dig up an old grave and add the new body .
Now, old graves will be very compacted and take hours to dig out. Can you imagine people really wouldn't notice a bunch of satanists trying to do this sneakily in the middle of the night with lights, tools, etc.? After all, aren't cemeteries usually close to centres of population.
I could go on, but it really would be a mammoth task. Don't waste your time on this title.
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July 1, 2020This is an appalling book which clearly breaches the Religious Hatred Act 2006.
It is basically a parable written by a manic fundamentalist Christian for other weirdo bible-thumpers. How it got out into the regular book-buying public I will never know.
It is basically a collection of mediaeval sectarian lies which have been updated for modern times to synch in with the 1990 Satanic Panic which was current when the author wrote this tripe.
It teems with bile, venom and defamation of the Neo-Pagan Religion using wicked accusations of the ancient Blood Libel; false accusations of killing and drinking the blood of children.
That lie has caused the death of millions of innocent people and should be shunned, not propagated.
There is absolutely no truth in any of it and no documentation to back up or prove what Harper claims. Although cobbled together by the Daily Express hack Harry Pugh it is replete with stereotypes and bigotry and delights in attacking Gays and Jews. Anyone who finds this book convincing about human sacrifice and child-abuse should get professional help.
Did it contribute to our understanding of the religion of Neo-Paganism and the uncomfortable relationship that Christian fundamentalists have with that belief? NO! It was simply written to defame the beliefs of an estimated 75,000 Neo-Pagans in the UK with the most dastardly lies anyone could aim at another human being. The very same Blood Libel that was aimed at Jews by the Nazis!
It is a disgusting polemic thoroughly out of step with current cultural equality laws and should be taken off sale and pulped.
It is basically a parable written by a manic fundamentalist Christian for other weirdo bible-thumpers. How it got out into the regular book-buying public I will never know.
It is basically a collection of mediaeval sectarian lies which have been updated for modern times to synch in with the 1990 Satanic Panic which was current when the author wrote this tripe.
It teems with bile, venom and defamation of the Neo-Pagan Religion using wicked accusations of the ancient Blood Libel; false accusations of killing and drinking the blood of children.
That lie has caused the death of millions of innocent people and should be shunned, not propagated.
There is absolutely no truth in any of it and no documentation to back up or prove what Harper claims. Although cobbled together by the Daily Express hack Harry Pugh it is replete with stereotypes and bigotry and delights in attacking Gays and Jews. Anyone who finds this book convincing about human sacrifice and child-abuse should get professional help.
Did it contribute to our understanding of the religion of Neo-Paganism and the uncomfortable relationship that Christian fundamentalists have with that belief? NO! It was simply written to defame the beliefs of an estimated 75,000 Neo-Pagans in the UK with the most dastardly lies anyone could aim at another human being. The very same Blood Libel that was aimed at Jews by the Nazis!
It is a disgusting polemic thoroughly out of step with current cultural equality laws and should be taken off sale and pulped.
January 22, 2020
CV: sexual assault, rape, murder, drugs, obviously religion.
Well these certainly are a genre.
Amongst other books dealing with Satan worshipping from the POV of evangelical Christianity, this book is one of the most violent. "True story" (yet the Finnish edition is categorized as fiction, go figure) includes sacrificial murder of a baby, plenty of raping, pedophilia, drug usage and, finally, cannibalism. Pretty much all you need to know.
Audrey, the protagonist, survives everything, finds God and after struggling some more starts preaching of her experience and the dangers of witchcraft. Gotta give the book a point for pretty much completely omitting any Bible verses - there are books that are nothing but, with the actual story on the sidelines.
However, as it is marked as fiction, this is not a good book. Lot of contradictions, and mediocre language. No surprises there.
Dunno, this is a weird pet peeve of mine.
Well these certainly are a genre.
Amongst other books dealing with Satan worshipping from the POV of evangelical Christianity, this book is one of the most violent. "True story" (yet the Finnish edition is categorized as fiction, go figure) includes sacrificial murder of a baby, plenty of raping, pedophilia, drug usage and, finally, cannibalism. Pretty much all you need to know.
Audrey, the protagonist, survives everything, finds God and after struggling some more starts preaching of her experience and the dangers of witchcraft. Gotta give the book a point for pretty much completely omitting any Bible verses - there are books that are nothing but, with the actual story on the sidelines.
However, as it is marked as fiction, this is not a good book. Lot of contradictions, and mediocre language. No surprises there.
Dunno, this is a weird pet peeve of mine.
June 29, 2020
Some unacquainted readers have treated this book as though it is a factual document when the truth is in the opposite.
Harper’s Dance with the Devil has in fact been completely discredited as misleading and biased Fundamentalist propaganda and wishful thinking and I was shocked that any reader would take it so seriously.
The SAFF organisation inform us:
‘In fact when she first began making these accusations to closed church audiences 'witnessing' to god about her redemption from 'evil' in 1986 Harper told her story without any accusations of baby sacrifice. Those outrageous human sacrifice claims caused a sensation when she first made her baby killing accusations in December 1988. But earlier that year she had appeared in numerous interviews and newspaper articles recounting her story of being initiated into a Witchcraft Coven and did not mention human sacrifice at all.
Harper 'came out' as an accessory to child murder in December 1988 on the Time and The Place TV show. It created sensational headlines nationwide. The police immediately started an investigation into her horrendous claims but found 'NO CASE TO ANSWER'. That is a legal phrase which means there was no evidence that what she was saying was true.’
It looks like Harper’s manuscript is a dogmatic thesis, which makes religious insults against minorities which are today illegal under the 2006 Religious Hatred Act. Readers should be made aware of this.
More detail on this odious book can be obtained from this enlightening article by Tony Rhodes: http://saff.nfshost.com/audreyharper.htm
Harper’s Dance with the Devil has in fact been completely discredited as misleading and biased Fundamentalist propaganda and wishful thinking and I was shocked that any reader would take it so seriously.
The SAFF organisation inform us:
‘In fact when she first began making these accusations to closed church audiences 'witnessing' to god about her redemption from 'evil' in 1986 Harper told her story without any accusations of baby sacrifice. Those outrageous human sacrifice claims caused a sensation when she first made her baby killing accusations in December 1988. But earlier that year she had appeared in numerous interviews and newspaper articles recounting her story of being initiated into a Witchcraft Coven and did not mention human sacrifice at all.
Harper 'came out' as an accessory to child murder in December 1988 on the Time and The Place TV show. It created sensational headlines nationwide. The police immediately started an investigation into her horrendous claims but found 'NO CASE TO ANSWER'. That is a legal phrase which means there was no evidence that what she was saying was true.’
It looks like Harper’s manuscript is a dogmatic thesis, which makes religious insults against minorities which are today illegal under the 2006 Religious Hatred Act. Readers should be made aware of this.
More detail on this odious book can be obtained from this enlightening article by Tony Rhodes: http://saff.nfshost.com/audreyharper.htm
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