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they have not. The
CBI manual is full of other errors about dates. Festivals from Christian and Satanic
mythology such as Walpurgisnacht are incorrectly attributed to Wiccans. Ancient Greek and Roman festivals that I’m
sure nobody celebrates anymore are listed as Satanic celebrations. The CBI Questioned Documents Examiner's Occult Guide states that Witches and Satanists celebrate personal birthdays as holy
days. This is a Satanic practice
started by Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, but this practice is unheard of in
Wiccan religion. The CBI has produced
quite the imaginative list, but it’s fiction, not fact. The
lists of "definitions" and "terms" of the CBI Questioned Documents Examiner's Occult Guide contradict one another and other parts of the guide. Some of the definitions are either
incorrect or incomplete. Two of my two
favorite examples are on their list.
The first reads: “Cathari: From
the term cat whose posterior they kiss in whose form Satan appears to
them." I
fell out of my chair laughing when I first read this definition. The Cathari, whose name comes from the
Greek root "katharos" ("pure"), were a Christian sect in
southern France first appearing in the region of Limousin in 1012 CE. The Catholic Church gave them the name
Albigenses, after the town Albi (then Albig), though their movement was
actually centered in Toulouse. The
Cathars considered man to be an alien traveler in an evil world. They believed that man must strive to free
his essentially good nature from this world and restore it to communion with
God. They rejected the flesh and
material creation as evil, banning sexual intercourse and the consumption of
meat. The Cathars rewrote the Bible to
reflect their doctrine: Jesus was
considered to be merely an angel whose death and human sufferings were an
illusion. The Cathari were well known
for their severe criticism of the worldliness and corruption of the Catholic
Church. This explains why Pope
Innocent III (1198-1216 C.E.) started the Albigensian Crusade and Inquisition
with the object of wiping out what he considered to be a heresy. I often see modern day "experts"
defining "cathari" or "cathars" as a "Generic name
for adepts in Black Arts", influenced by the biased reports of the
Alibigensian Inquisitors. It has
nothing to do with cats or kissing posteriors. The other definition from the CBI Questioned Documents Examiner's Occult Guide defines “Polymastia” as "the sign of a witch". I’ve seen this definition surface in other
“occult crime” manuals as well. This
is straight out of Inquisitional manuals such as the Malleus Malificarum, which listed what were
claimed to be characteristics which the Inquisitors could use to identify a
"Witch". The term Polymastia
means "the presence of more than two breasts". The Demonologists of the Inquisition
believed that female witches had an extra nipple to feed a
"familiar" animal. They
pointed out any wart, growth or mole as "proof" that their victim
had polymastia. True polymastia in the
physiological sense is quite rare, affecting less than 2% of the
population. Having polymastia is not a
sign that you are a member of any particular belief; It is simply a physiological
condition. It is surprising that
modern investigators of this sort would take such Inquisitional folk tales
seriously. My wife pointed out to me
that Chandler, a character on the popular television show Friends has a third nipple, which he jokingly
referred to as the source of his humor. According to the CBI, Chandler would
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