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By Bill Ellis. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000. 352 pp. $27.50 (hbk). ISBN 0-8131-2170-1

There can be few allegations that have caused greater controversy, and greater suffering, in America and Britain in recent years than the assertions that secret devil-worshipping cults are widespread, that children are being sexually abused and/or murdered as part of their rituals, and that the "recovered memories" of such events elicited by self-appointed therapists are valid. The disruption to families, and the pain and injustice to individuals, has been horrendous; ...