A word from the South African Police Service.

WARNING SIGNS OF POSSIBLE DESTRUCTIVE OCCULT-RELATED DISCOURSE

Note: This is merely a guideline and must be with other factors including behavioral and emotional changes over time.

• Phone calls from persons requesting to speak with someone other than your child’s name. Callers may be enquiring for your child and using his/her satanic/demonic name.
• Child troubled and obsessed with death. He/she writes essays and talks about death and/or the occult. What is in the heart and mind manifests in many ways.
• Changes to the appearance of the child’s bedroom. Some bedrooms have pentagrams or other symbols that are taped, burned or painted on the floor under the carpet or bed or on the back of paintings or pictures and the walls are painted a dark colour. Candles and occult objects will be hidden away.
• Child’s school locker and or school case contains satanic and ritualistic items.
• Child experiences sudden gender confusion
• Child displays cruelty towards animals
• Child views a disproportionate number of videotapes/DVDs of horror movies/ heavy metal music
• Child is engaged in illegal drug use and/or sexual activity
• Child plays love fantasy games. (Fantasy games have no rules or guidelines. They inspire creativity lacking boundaries. The player is allowed to lose the boundary between reality and fantasy).
• Child has an interest in computer. (History settings on the Internet browser will probably be cancelled to wipe evidence of visited sites. There will also be passwords on the computer and download folders)
• Child greets with a left-hand horn signal. Wears only silver jewellery , not gold jewellery as gold is considered a Christian metal.
• Child is fearful of things that bring happiness to other people like watching a beautiful sunset. He/she is openly hateful of Christians who are happy.
• Books, videos, computer downloads dealing with rituals, necromancy and other occult practices.
• Child is involved in or commit the mutilation and/or torture of animals.
• Child is secretive and isolated.
• Child rejects old friends and replaces them with secretive friends.
• Excessive secrecy regarding new friends and activities.
• Child is alienated, argumentative or displays violent behaviour.
• Rejection of parental values.
• Loss of sense of humour.
• Change of school habits.
• Child writes backwards.
• Child carries the Book of Shadows. This is their most important book of poetry, prose, spells, incantations, meeting places, important dates.
• There may be another book cover over it.
• Self-mutilation/relentless cutting of self. (Cuts may be on the breasts, chest, ankles, and arms. Pain is the purification process to hell, and suicide the ultimate sacrifice to Satan)
• Child has punctures from needles use to drain blood for consumption. Look out for marks on left side of body.
• Obscene sensitiveness or paranoia concentrated toward authorities.
• Birthdays might be filled with anxiety. (Birthdays are important days for satanists.)
• Child is curious about drugs, specifically hallucinogens.
• Depression.
• Child starts to wear pale make-up and or dyes hair black.
• Draping hair across the left eye.
• Child listens to black metal or heavy metal with occult lyrics, symbols or references to occult worship. Posters of related groups are displayed in his/her room.
• Child’s fingernails are painted black. The left-hand fingernails are longer than the right-hand fingernails. (The left side of body represents evil, as Jesus sits at the right-hand side of God.)
• Child displays a pre-occupation with black clothing.
• Child wears his/her left sleeve rolled up. (This can be used in school, malls, etcetera to signify membership to a satanic group).
• Child uses candles of electrical lights.
• Child uses satanic alphabet in his/her books.
• Child’s personal hygiene deteriorates.
• Child is sleepy and hazy.
• Child’s school performance deteriorates and he/she displays increased aggression against authority figures at school.

(This is all real text from the official SAPS site.)

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http://www.saps.gov.za/youth_desk/occult/occult.htm