Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist (25 page)

20
Spirit Lake Messenger
, April 9, 1886.

21
The idea of night doctors was so pervasive that on August 18, 1907, the
Washington Post
ran an urban legend–type story about the famed sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens. He approached a black man on the streets of Washington, D.C., and asked him to model for a statue of a soldier. The man thought St. Gaudens was a night doctor and ran away; the artist took off after him, and a policeman, thinking that St. Gaudens was chasing a thief, lit out after both. A cartoon depicts all three running down the street.

22
Mary E. Lyons,
Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural
(New York: Atheneum, 1991), 47–50.

23
Spirit Lake Beacon
, April 9, 1886.

24
Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 201. On p. 161 of Rev. Montague Summers's
History of Witchcraft and Demonology
(1926), he tells a similar story: “It was long thought by the ignorant country folk that the doctors of the hospital of Graz enjoyed the privilege of being allowed every year to exploit one human life for curative purposes. Some young man who repaired thither for toothache or any such slight ailment is seized, hung up by his feet, and tickled to death! Skilled chemists boil the body to a paste and utilize this as well as the fat and the charred bones in their drug store.” Like the doctors at Graz, night doctors had designated times to find victims. Summers's source is Victor Fossel's
Volksmedicin und Medicinis Cher Aberglaube in Steiermark
, which was published in 1886; the year the story appeared in the
Spirit Lake Beacon
.

25
Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 210–211.

26
Michael Newton,
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
(New York: Checkmark Books, 2000), 102.

27
BACM Research,
Atlanta Child Murders: Wayne Williams FBI Files
, dclxxxviii.

28
Ibid., dclxxxix.

29
“Atlanta Child Murders,” CNN Live Event/Special, June 10, 2010. Transcript available at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/10/se.01.html.

30
Ibid.

31
Bernard D. Headley,
The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998), 126.

32
http://abj.matrix.msu.edu/videofull.php?id=29-DF-1E.

33
James Baldwin,
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
(New York: Holt, 1985), 87.

34
Gamble, “Under the Shadow of Tuskegee,” 1773–1777.

35
Valley Independent
, June 5, 1981.

36
Consider an unrelated incident of mass hysteria in Bristol, Virginia, in 2010. Amid rumors that a bloodthirsty vampire cult might ritualistically sacrifice their children to gain immortality, dozens of Wallace Middle School parents kept their kids home Friday. Washington County [Virginia] County School Superintendent Alan T. Lee said the panic grew from a wildly overblown story about an online “hit-list.” It likely began with “a ‘hate-list' posted anonymously on a website called VampireFreaks.com” that “reportedly included everything from Barack Obama to country music to this group of middle school girls.” Concerned parents sent the information back and forth, and “Somewhere along the line ‘hate list' became ‘hit list,' and panic spread that a vampire cult infiltrated the Washington County public school.”
Bristol (VA) Herald Courier,
December 24, 2012.

37
http://slic.njstatelib.org/new_jersey_information/digital_collections/unit_9_world_war_i_and_the_great_migration_1915_1920.

38
Among the few clues relating to the disappearance of the “Clinton Avenue Five” was a phone call made to one of their relatives from someone claiming that the five had been arrested. This was not true, but the call originated from Union Station in Washington, D.C., which was once notorious for night doctor activity.

39
Daily Herald (Chicago, IL)
, October 31, 1980.

40
Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 190–191.

41
The (Frederick, MD) News
, November 2, 1995.

42
Scott Wood,
London Urban Legends
(Stroud, UK: History Press, 2013), 132.

43
Christopher Berry-Dee,
The Voices of the Serial Killers
(Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2011), 45.

44
Jaye Fletcher,
Deadly Thrills
(New York: Onyx Books, 1995), 54, 77.

45
Patricia A. Turner,
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 27.

46
W.E.B. DuBois Institute,
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 38.

47
Johannes Postma,
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 165.

48
William Arens,
Man-Eating Myth
, 22, cited in Turner,
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
, 139.

The Blood Gospel

1
Daily Boomerang (WY)
, January 27, 1890.

2
Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle
, January 27, 1890.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
Ibid.

7
Ibid.

8
New York Times
, July 9, 1898.

9
Galveston News
, May 21, 1883.

10
Fresno (CA) Republican
, July 28, 1877.

11
Stevens Point (WI) Daily Journal
, June 9, 1883.

12
Daily Free Press (WI)
, September 14, 1875.

13
Warren (PA) Ledger
, January 3, 1879.

14
Bucks County (PA) Gazette
, May 8, 1890.

15
Daily Free Press
, September 14, 1875.

16
Robert Withers, ed.,
Controversies in Analytical Psychology
(New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2003), 64.

17
Daily Free Press
, September 14, 1875;
Waterloo (IA) Courier
, May 31, 1876.

18
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/vampire-mum-of-two-i-drink-two-1943342.

19
Stevens Point Daily Journal
, June 3, 1883; Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald Numbers,
Sickness and Health in America
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 5.
Consumption
was used to describe any form of wasting illness. Tuberculosis is also closely
associated with vampirism in New England; see Michael E. Bell's book
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001).

20
“
Der Arme Heinrich von Hartmann von der Aue
” (Berlin, 1815), quoted in Hermann Leberecht Strack,
The Jew and Human Sacrifice
(London: Cope and Fenwick, 1909), 62.

21
Pliny the Elder, quoted in Owsei Temkin,
The Falling Sickness
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).

22
Armando R. Favazza,
Bodies under Siege
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 6.

23
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
, quoted in Strack,
The Jew and Human Sacrifice
, 63.

24
Hermann Leberecht Strack,
The Jew and Human Sacrifice
, 63.

25
G. Daniel,
Histoire de France
, IX, 1755, quoted in Strack,
The Jew and Human Sacrifice
, 65.

26
Personal communication to the author from David W. Jackson, Director of Archives and Education at the Jackson County (Missouri) Historical Society, June 13, 2007.

27
James Hastings, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
, vol. 2 (New York: Scribner, 1910), 715.

Afterword

1
New York Times
, March 31, 1922.

2
Washington Times
, June 17, 1906.

3
Daily Milwaukee News
, March 11, 1866.

4
New York Daily Tribune
, June 24, 1906.

5
Monroe (MI) Commercial
, March 8, 1877;
Monroe (MI) Democrat
, August 21,
1884.

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Andersen, Hans Christian,
261
–62

Antichrists.
See
Men of Sin

Ape Canyon (Washington).
See
also
Beck, Fred; Bigfoot/Sasquatch

attack by ape-men,
155
,
170
–72

cryptozoological study of ape-men story,
185
–86

Great Ape Hunt,
172
,
176
–77

grudge motive for attack,
174
,
184
,
194

noises and materializations,
166
–67,
168
–69,
183
–84,
196

phenomena following ape-men incident,
201
–2

physical details of ape-men,
169
,
179
,
183

popular interest in attack,
172
–74

prospectors' defense,
168
,
169
,
170
–72

prospectors' Spiritualism and guidance by spirit,
156
,
162
–65,
193

skepticism concerning attack,
172
–73

Vander White mine,
164
–65,
168

Ashbridge, Sam,
97

Atlanta child murders,
237
–42

autodecapitation

during conventional suicide,
134
–35

deliberate self-decapitation,
135
–36

guillotine-type devices for,
148
–52

incidents of,
148
–50

at Lahr House hotel,
133
–34,
137
–40,
142
,
148
,
153
–54

lever device for,
141
–44,
146
–48,
151

as route to celebrity,
150
–54

Baldwin, James,
241

Bathory, Elizabeth,
262
–63

Beck, Arthur,
158

Beck, Clifford,
172
,
176

Beck, Fred.
See also
Ape Canyon;
I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens

on capture of Sasquatch,
203
–4

death,
185

family background,
157
–58

family's impression of,
174
–75

first ape-man encounter,
159
–60

interviews and storytelling about Ape Canyon experience,
176
,
178
–79

metaphysical beliefs about ape-men,
181
–82,
184

psychic encounters and powers,
156
,
158
–59,
166
–67,
175

Spiritualism practice,
156
,
160
,
162

Beck, Ronald,
175
,
180

Beckwith, Phebe A.,
59

Bell Witch,
161

Bena, Mrs. Tony,
6

Bena, Tony,
4
,
6
,
7

Benedict XIV, Pope,
71

Benga, Ota,
103
–4

Bernstein, Leo M.,
207
,
222

Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
See also
Ape Canyon

as alien race,
196
–97

cryptozoological study of,
157

interest in and hunts for,
172
,
176
–78

odor,
197

Pithecanthropus ape-man,
183
–84

recorded encounters with,
155
–56,
185

resemblance to treasure guardian spirits,
194
–97

wild man as,
90

Bird, Calvin,
98
–102

Birmingham, Robert A.,
199
–200

Bishop, Margaret,
56

blood bathing,
262
–63

blood drinking

beauty enhancement,
260

combination of ancient and modern beliefs,
264

Kansas City blood cult,
253
–55,
263
–64

medicinal purposes,
260
–62

painting depicting,
257

Samaritan blood cult,
255
–56

transfer of character attributes,
259
–60

as widespread practice,
257
–59

Boggs, Hale,
219
–20

Bonaventure, Saint,
70

Book of Mormon
(Smith),
42
,
188

Bottini, Adeline,
4
–5,
7
,
11

Bottini, John (Giovanni) B.,
4
,
7
,
11
–12

Bottini, Rosa,
4
,
5
,
7

Bottini, Santina,
4
,
5
,
7
,
11

Bremmond, Shannon, Sr.,
67

Brinson, William T. “Doc,”
96
–97,
112

Brown, George,
105

Bruse, James,
86

Burney, Claudia Mair,
84
–85

Burson (Swedish farmer),
266
–67

Buveurs de Sang
(
The Blood Drinkers
) (painting by Gueldry),
257

Byrne, Peter,
178

Cahill, Dennis,
123
–24

Candee, John D.,
57

cannibalism,
249
–51

Caples, Julia,
260

Carroll, Charles,
94

Carson, Susan,
68

Carter, Jimmy (governor of Georgia),
238

Carter, Jim (skier at Ape Canyon),
202

“Case of Stigmata, A” (Early and Lifschutz),
74
–77,
78
–81

Catherine of Siena, Saint,
69

Cayce, Edgar,
175

Centennial International Exhibition (Philadelphia),
146

Chamberlain, E. C.,
33
,
59

Chapman family,
178

Chere, François Auguste,
150
–51

Chicago Rippers,
247
–49

child abductions.
See
clowns-in-vans

Christian Israelites,
56

Clogan, Bridget,
139
–40

clowns-in-vans

Atlanta child murders,
237
–42

Chicago Rippers murders and,
248
–49

clowns and cannibalism,
249
–51

clown variations,
246
–47

encounters of children with,
225
–30

first reports in Newark,
244
–45

Ku Klux Klan and,
232
–33,
238
–39,
243
–44

as modern phantom panic,
251
–52

murder vans of serial killers,
239
–40

night-doctor abductions and,
233
–36,
245

origins in slavery,
230
–33

possible inspirations for,
242
–43

widespread reports of,
227
–30,
245
–46

Cobb/Cobbites,
15
–17

Coleman, Loren,
185
,
226
–30

Connecticut witch executions,
27

Connelly (autodecapitation victim),
148

Constantine the Great,
262

cosmos, metaphysical concept of,
181
–82

Crew, Jerry,
177

cryptozoology,
157
,
185
–86

Dahinden, Rene,
177
,
178
,
184
–85

Dampier, Calvin,
110
–11

Davis, Hiram and Barney,
91
–92

Dean, Elmer H.,
8

decapitation.
See
autodecapitation

Dedge, John R.

background,
95
–96

concept of American satyr,
114
–15

death,
112

dental skill,
96

enthusiasm for money and indifference toward law,
96
,
106
,
111

exhibition of wild men,
87
–88,
102
–4,
113

Humane Society objections to,
105

murder conviction,
111
–12

partners in wild man venture,
96
–97,
105
,
111
–12

selection and surgical creation of wild men,
98
–99,
102
–3,
106
–10

Deen, Braswell D., Jr.,
87
–88,
113
,
115
–17

Demate, Louisa,
100
–102

De Pascale, Gaetano,
264

Deutsch, Lisa,
64

Dixon, James Lamb,
208
,
210
–11,
218
–19,
220

Dixon, Jeane

astrology practice,
215
,
216
–17

character and habits,
207

Children to Children Foundation,
217

conservative values and optimism,
221

cultivation of own legend,
207
–9,
221

death,
220

early display of mystical talent,
208

estate auction and sale of crystal balls,
222
–23

FBI file,
218
–20

financial and business acumen,
211

financial scandal,
217
–18

fortune-telling for entertainment,
210
,
211

Jeane Dixon Museum and Library,
205
–7,
222

mathematical Jeane Dixon Effect,
218

numerology practice,
215

popularity,
216
–17,
221

predictions and visions,
211
–14,
215
–16,
220

telepathic receipt of correct predictions,
214
–15

true background,
209
–10

urban legends concerning,
218

Dixon, Nancy,
255
–56

Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?
(Patterson),
178

Dods, John Bovee,
42

Doolittle, Lucius,
48

Dorril, William/Dorrilites,
15

Downing, Mrs. (money-digger),
186

dowsing,
187

Dracula,
266

Dutton, Henry,
34
,
57
–58,
60

Early, Loretta F.,
74
–77,
78
–81

Eisenberg, Leslie E.,
199
–200

Electrical Psychologist (John Bovee Dods),
42

English, J. C.,
97
,
99

Farber, Barry,
221

Farini, Krao,
92

Fawcett, Percy,
89

Ferrerio, Joe,
7

First Great Awakening,
13
–14

Foster, E. K.,
57
,
60

Fox sisters,
160

Francis of Assisi, Saint,
69
–70

Freeman, Charles F.,
64

Gacy, John Wayne,
242
–43,
248

Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine,
121
–22,
123
–24,
127
,
129

Gecht, Robin,
247
–49

Geley, Gustave,
183

Ghost Dance ritual,
14

ghosts.
See
Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip); spirits

giants as treasure guardians,
190
,
195
–96

Gift of Prophecy, A
(Dixon),
216

Gillis Center,
263

Gimlin, Bob,
185

gnomes,
186
,
190
,
194
,
196
–97,
201

Godfrey, Linda,
199
–201

Gould, Eben,
25
–26,
34

Great Chain of Being concept of race,
93
–94,
104

Great Disappointment,
14

Green, John,
177
,
178
–79,
180

Gregory, Dick,
240
–41

Gueldry, Joseph Ferdinand,
257

guillotines,
148
–52

Hamilton, Silas,
188

Harry, Muchalat,
174

Hayden, Herbert H.,
62
–64

Hennessy, J. J.,
6

Hersey, Thankful S.,
25
,
40
,
42
,
54
,
57
,
61

Hester, Leonard L.,
73
,
81
,
82
,
83
–84

Hinman, Judge,
57
,
60
–61

Hooker, Worthington,
59

Hoover, J. Edgar,
218
–19

“Horned Men on Africa...”,
89

Huckett, William O.,
253
–55,
263

Huffman, J. H.,
173

Human Zoo (St. Louis World's Fair),
102

Hunt, Amos,
31
,
32
–35,
54
–56,
62
–64

I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens
(Beck).
See also
Ape Canyon; Beck, Fred

contents and outline,
180
–81

as magical treasure-hunting story,
185
–86,
191
–95,
202
–3

as metaphor for wisdom-seeking,
203

writing and publication of,
156
,
177
,
180
,
184