Closet Witches!

In light of recent classes on the Satanic Scare, I am writing on Rebecca Brown, her works, and her connection. The reason I wanted to single her out in particular was because she may have been one of the wackier writers and "doctors" that arose during the 80's satanism related paranoia.

Brown first rose to prominence when Jack Chick, of Chick tract's fame, the fabulous writer and illustrator of the trashy little Christian comic book pamphlets crazy people hand you on the train, published her book, He Came to Set the Captives Free. This book dealt with Elaine, a woman Brown claims to have helped as a psychiatrist. Brown says Elaine was the bride of Satan. She was "saved" after years of Satanic practices, attempting to infiltrate good Christian churches. The interesting thing about Brown is that she doesn't stop short at claims that Satanism is wild spread. She write about physically fighting demons, werewolves (yes, werewolves!), and other evil beings. One of the funniest details concerns Elaine's occult days. When being trained to become the next High Priestess, Elaine was given a "demon guide," named Man-Chan. This site reviews a recorded interview Jack Chick himself conducted with the women http://www.monsterwax.com/brown.html . The name of the recording is Closet Witches, and it sounds incredible. It's funny to see how much of her information comes more from popular culture than Christian or pagan sources. She spins yarns like horror schlocksters making cheap exploitation.

Today, Brown still spins her wildly entertaining yarns. She has a website with her husband, Daniel Yoder http://www.harvestwarriors.com/. Her later work, Unbroken Curses, cowritten with her husband, Daniel Yoder, claims an evil Kabbalistic past for her new hubby. According to Brown and Yoder, Daniel Yoder was sent to learn Jewish Kabbala at the hands of evil Rabbi's until he was 19. One day, while being kept prisoner of the Satanic Semites, he was bombarded with thousands upon thousands of spiders dumped on him as punishment. Pleading in anguish, a beam of light came and saved him, healing all his spider wounds.

Despite being disproved repeatedly, Brown continues with her beliefs. Jack Chick still believes every word. And I assume that there are probably hundreds of gullible people that eat her tripe and call it pudding.