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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 legendâtype 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), 47â50.
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
, 210â211.
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,” 1773â1777.
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 âhate-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 âhate list' became âhit 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
, 190â191.
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, 1600â1815
(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
â62
Antichrists.
See
Men of Sin
Ape Canyon (Washington).
See
also
Beck, Fred; Bigfoot/Sasquatch
attack by ape-men,
155
,
170
â72
cryptozoological study of ape-men story,
185
â86
grudge motive for attack,
174
,
184
,
194
noises and materializations,
166
â67,
168
â69,
183
â84,
196
phenomena following ape-men incident,
201
â2
physical details of ape-men,
169
,
179
,
183
popular interest in attack,
172
â74
prospectors' defense,
168
,
169
,
170
â72
prospectors' Spiritualism and guidance by spirit,
156
,
162
â65,
193
skepticism concerning attack,
172
â73
Vander White mine,
164
â65,
168
Ashbridge, Sam,
97
Atlanta child murders,
237
â42
autodecapitation
during conventional suicide,
134
â35
deliberate self-decapitation,
135
â36
guillotine-type devices for,
148
â52
incidents of,
148
â50
at Lahr House hotel,
133
â34,
137
â40,
142
,
148
,
153
â54
lever device for,
141
â44,
146
â48,
151
as route to celebrity,
150
â54
Baldwin, James,
241
Bathory, Elizabeth,
262
â63
Beck, Arthur,
158
Beck, Fred.
See also
Ape Canyon;
I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens
on capture of Sasquatch,
203
â4
death,
185
family background,
157
â58
family's impression of,
174
â75
first ape-man encounter,
159
â60
interviews and storytelling about Ape Canyon experience,
176
,
178
â79
metaphysical beliefs about ape-men,
181
â82,
184
psychic encounters and powers,
156
,
158
â59,
166
â67,
175
Spiritualism practice,
156
,
160
,
162
Beckwith, Phebe A.,
59
Bell Witch,
161
Bena, Mrs. Tony,
6
Benedict XIV, Pope,
71
Benga, Ota,
103
â4
Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
See also
Ape Canyon
as alien race,
196
â97
cryptozoological study of,
157
interest in and hunts for,
172
,
176
â78
odor,
197
Pithecanthropus ape-man,
183
â84
recorded encounters with,
155
â56,
185
resemblance to treasure guardian spirits,
194
â97
wild man as,
90
Bird, Calvin,
98
â102
Birmingham, Robert A.,
199
â200
Bishop, Margaret,
56
blood bathing,
262
â63
blood drinking
beauty enhancement,
260
combination of ancient and modern beliefs,
264
Kansas City blood cult,
253
â55,
263
â64
medicinal purposes,
260
â62
painting depicting,
257
Samaritan blood cult,
255
â56
transfer of character attributes,
259
â60
as widespread practice,
257
â59
Boggs, Hale,
219
â20
Bonaventure, Saint,
70
Bottini, John (Giovanni) B.,
4
,
7
,
11
â12
Bremmond, Shannon, Sr.,
67
Brinson, William T. “Doc,”
96
â97,
112
Brown, George,
105
Bruse, James,
86
Burney, Claudia Mair,
84
â85
Burson (Swedish farmer),
266
â67
Buveurs de Sang
(
The Blood Drinkers
) (painting by Gueldry),
257
Byrne, Peter,
178
Cahill, Dennis,
123
â24
Candee, John D.,
57
cannibalism,
249
â51
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
â77,
78
â81
Catherine of Siena, Saint,
69
Cayce, Edgar,
175
Centennial International Exhibition (Philadelphia),
146
Chapman family,
178
Chere, François Auguste,
150
â51
Chicago Rippers,
247
â49
child abductions.
See
clowns-in-vans
Christian Israelites,
56
Clogan, Bridget,
139
â40
clowns-in-vans
Atlanta child murders,
237
â42
Chicago Rippers murders and,
248
â49
clowns and cannibalism,
249
â51
clown variations,
246
â47
encounters of children with,
225
â30
first reports in Newark,
244
â45
Ku Klux Klan and,
232
â33,
238
â39,
243
â44
as modern phantom panic,
251
â52
murder vans of serial killers,
239
â40
night-doctor abductions and,
233
â36,
245
origins in slavery,
230
â33
possible inspirations for,
242
â43
widespread reports of,
227
â30,
245
â46
Cobb/Cobbites,
15
â17
Connecticut witch executions,
27
Connelly (autodecapitation victim),
148
Constantine the Great,
262
cosmos, metaphysical concept of,
181
â82
Crew, Jerry,
177
Dahinden, Rene,
177
,
178
,
184
â85
Dampier, Calvin,
110
â11
Davis, Hiram and Barney,
91
â92
Dean, Elmer H.,
8
decapitation.
See
autodecapitation
Dedge, John R.
background,
95
â96
concept of American satyr,
114
â15
death,
112
dental skill,
96
enthusiasm for money and indifference toward law,
96
,
106
,
111
exhibition of wild men,
87
â88,
102
â4,
113
Humane Society objections to,
105
murder conviction,
111
â12
partners in wild man venture,
96
â97,
105
,
111
â12
selection and surgical creation of wild men,
98
â99,
102
â3,
106
â10
Deen, Braswell D., Jr.,
87
â88,
113
,
115
â17
Demate, Louisa,
100
â102
De Pascale, Gaetano,
264
Deutsch, Lisa,
64
Dixon, James Lamb,
208
,
210
â11,
218
â19,
220
Dixon, Jeane
astrology practice,
215
,
216
â17
character and habits,
207
Children to Children Foundation,
217
conservative values and optimism,
221
cultivation of own legend,
207
â9,
221
death,
220
early display of mystical talent,
208
estate auction and sale of crystal balls,
222
â23
FBI file,
218
â20
financial and business acumen,
211
financial scandal,
217
â18
fortune-telling for entertainment,
210
,
211
Jeane Dixon Museum and Library,
205
â7,
222
mathematical Jeane Dixon Effect,
218
numerology practice,
215
predictions and visions,
211
â14,
215
â16,
220
telepathic receipt of correct predictions,
214
â15
true background,
209
â10
urban legends concerning,
218
Dixon, Nancy,
255
â56
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
Early, Loretta F.,
74
â77,
78
â81
Eisenberg, Leslie E.,
199
â200
Electrical Psychologist (John Bovee Dods),
42
Farber, Barry,
221
Farini, Krao,
92
Fawcett, Percy,
89
Ferrerio, Joe,
7
First Great Awakening,
13
â14
Fox sisters,
160
Francis of Assisi, Saint,
69
â70
Freeman, Charles F.,
64
Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine,
121
â22,
123
â24,
127
,
129
Gecht, Robin,
247
â49
Geley, Gustave,
183
Ghost Dance ritual,
14
ghosts.
See
Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip); spirits
giants as treasure guardians,
190
,
195
â96
Gift of Prophecy, A
(Dixon),
216
Gillis Center,
263
Gimlin, Bob,
185
gnomes,
186
,
190
,
194
,
196
â97,
201
Godfrey, Linda,
199
â201
Great Chain of Being concept of race,
93
â94,
104
Great Disappointment,
14
Gregory, Dick,
240
â41
Gueldry, Joseph Ferdinand,
257
guillotines,
148
â52
Hamilton, Silas,
188
Harry, Muchalat,
174
Hayden, Herbert H.,
62
â64
Hennessy, J. J.,
6
Hersey, Thankful S.,
25
,
40
,
42
,
54
,
57
,
61
Hester, Leonard L.,
73
,
81
,
82
,
83
â84
Hooker, Worthington,
59
Hoover, J. Edgar,
218
â19
“Horned Men on Africa...”,
89
Huckett, William O.,
253
â55,
263
Huffman, J. H.,
173
Human Zoo (St. Louis World's Fair),
102
Hunt, Amos,
31
,
32
â35,
54
â56,
62
â64
I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens
(Beck).
See also
Ape Canyon; Beck, Fred
contents and outline,
180
â81
as magical treasure-hunting story,
185
â86,
191
â95,
202
â3
as metaphor for wisdom-seeking,
203