Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or she has a "black heart" - seeing the abuser holding an animal heart and then feeling severe chest pain while it is supposedly inserted. In "brain transplants", the brain of an abuser or of a despised animal such as a rate is supposedly put into a child. Children are told that they are demons or monsters or aliens, or internal copies of an abuser whose "seed" has been implanted by rape.Ch29, p324
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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