CHRONOLOGY - OXEM-HETIS/DEMONOLOGY

• 1580-Bodin, Jean, a French Judge, writes De la Demonomanie des Sorciers.  In it he claims that  "those who deny the existence of satanists are themselves sorcerers".
  
  
• 1783-Satanic literature & Oxem-Hetis propaganda  filters through Europe.
  
  
• 1793-Two alleged Satanists are burned at the stake in Poland,  the year of the Second Partition.  
  
  
• 1850-First known Oxem-Hetis chapter emerges outside of  Lyons, France, and is headed by Dominique Gerard..  The cult performs sadistic animal and human sacrifices. 
  
  
• 1863-An infant's mutilated body is found in the house where nine Oxem-hetis members lived.  The followers were tried, convicted, and burned alive.   Dominique Gerard disappears.
  
  
• 1865-Alan Tashi (believed to be Dominque Gerard under an assumed name) accused of murdering nine girls in Collingswood, N.J.  Their mutilated bodies are discovered in a well on Tashi's property.  Before he can be brought to justice, Alan Tashi disappears and is never heard of again.
  
  
• 1923-Emily Perkins arrested in Collingswood, N.J., for cruelty towards animals.  At her trial she claimed she was performing rituals for Oxem-Hetis.  Emily was sentenced to Ancora Mental Institution where she died in 1946.
  
  
• 1953-Theresa Barker, William Clayton Thomas, and Marcus Thomas commit suicide one day after their
  high school graduation from Collingswood High.  On each victim's forehead an oxemhexagram was inscribed.
  
  
• 1965-The mutilated remains of three dogs are found in Crow's Park, Collingswood, N.J.  Suspicion of animal sacrifices.
  
  
• 1972-Dark, ritualistic symbols are found carved on trees in Crow's Park, Collingswood, N.J.
  
  
• 1984-The remains of three more dogs are found in Crow's Park, Collingswood, N.J.  One dog had been disemboweled with its intestines wrapped tightly around its neck.
  
  
• 1997-Judge Malcolm Hawks (rumored to be a member of Oxem-Hetis) murders his family then kills himself.
    
  
• 2002 - an independent film is made based on these events.
  
  
• 2004 - Attempted abduction: in October a nine year old girl, walking home from school, claims she was attacked by a man who had an oxemhexagram carved on his forehead.  Three more attempted abductions followed in November and December.
  
  
• 2005 - Doors slamming, windows shutting by themselves are reported at the Camden County Municipal Court.   
  
  
• 2006 - Oct. 31, residents on Lees Lane report nine cats missing.  Nov. 13 the remains of the cats are found in Crow's Park.
  
  
• 2007 -   A pregnant woman, who recently moved into a historic house in Collingswood, N.J., claims to hear strange sounds and "chanting" at night .

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