Sons of Cain

by Peter Vronsky

  38 Akop P. Nazaretyan. “Power and Wisdom: Toward a History of Social Behavior.” Journal of Social Behavior, vol. 33, no. 4, 2003.

  39 Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Bernard Vandermeersch, and François Lévêque. “Evidence for Interpersonal Violence in the St. Césaire Neanderthal.”

  40 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/science/ancient-indonesian-find-may-rival-oldest-known-cave-art.html.

  41 Edward O. Wilson. On Human Nature. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. And Geoffrey Blainey. Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia. London: Macmillan, 1976.

  42 http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-crime-declines-in-america/ (retrieved March 31, 2016).

  43 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-study-met-20160726-story.html.

  44 http://time.com/4635049/chicago-murder-rate-homicides.

  45 See for example, Catherine Ramsland. Inside the Minds of Serial Killers: Why They Kill. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, p. 101.

  3. PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LUST SERIAL KILLER IN CIVILIZED SOCIETY

  1 Cited in Stein et al. Sigmund Freud, The Sexual Life of Human Beings, standard ed. London: Hogarth Press, 1917⁄1963, 16, pp. 303–19.

  2 Robert von Krafft-Ebing. Psychopathia Sexualis, twelfth ed., authorized English ed. New York: Rebman Company, n.d., p. 79.

  3 American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), fifth ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2013.

  4 Krafft-Ebing. Psychopathia Sexualis, twelfth ed., p. 79.

  5 Catherine Purcell and Bruce A. Arrigo. The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual Killing, and Serial Homicide. New York: Elsevier Press, 2006, p. 26, Kindle ed.

  6 G. N. Bianchi, J. E. Cawte, J. Money, and B. Nurcombe. “Sex Training and Traditions in Arnhem Land.” British Journal of Medical Psychology, no. 43, 1970, pp. 383–99.

  7 Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess, and John E. Douglas. Sexual Homicide, Kindle locations 1049–51.

  8 Vronsky, Serial Killers, p. 169.

  9 American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), fifth ed., pp. 685–86.

  10 Vivek Datta, MD, MPH. “When Homosexuality Came Out (of the DSM).” Mad in America Science, Psychiatry and Community, December 1, 2014, http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/homosexuality-came-dsm.

  11 Lisa Downing. “John Money’s ‘Normophilia’: Diagnosing Sexual Normality in Late-Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Sexology.” Psychology & Sexuality, vol. 1, issue 3, 2010.

  12 John William Money (2011-11-15). Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986, Kindle ed. (Kindle locations 88–89; 1233–39).

  13 Money, Lovemaps, Kindle locations 1316–18.

  14 “Interview: John Money.” PAIDIKA: The Journal of Paedophilia, Spring 1991, vol. 2, no. 3, p. 5.

  15 Catherine Purcell and Bruce A. Arrigo. The Psychology of Lust Murder, p. 26. And Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess, and John E. Douglas, Sexual Homicide, Kindle locations 1048–49.

  16 C. Crepault and M. Couture. “Men’s Erotic Fantasies.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 9, issue 6, 1980. pp. 565–81. And http://www.newsweek.com/campus-rapists-and-semantics-297463. And http://jezebel.com/1-in-3-college-men-admit-they-would-rape-if-we-dont-ca-1678601600. And http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/vio.2014.0022.

  17 Myra MacPherson. “The Roots of Evil,” Vanity Fair, May 1989.

  18 R. Langevin. “A Study of the Psychosexual Characteristics of Sex Killers: Can We Identify Them Before It Is Too Late?” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 47, issue 4, 2003, pp. 366–82.

  19 Mark Bourrie. Peter Woodcock : Canada’s Youngest Serial Killer. St. John’s, Newfoundland: VP Publication—R. J. Parker Publishing, 2016.

  20 Ian Brady. The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001, pp. 87–88.

  21 Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, sixth ed., p. 226.

  4. THE DAWN OF THE LESS-DEAD: SERIAL KILLERS AND MODERNITY

  1 For more on de Rais and Báthory, see Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters and Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters.

  2 J. P. Rosman and P. J. Resnick. “Sexual Attraction to Corpses: A Psychiatric Review of Necrophilia.” The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, vol. 17, no. 2, 1989, pp. 153-63 (citing H. von Huber, “Nekrophilie,” Kriminalistik, no. 16, 1962, pp. 564–68, and Ernest Jones, On the Nightmare, New York: Liveright, 1931, pp. 109–12).

  3 Tractate Sanhedrin. Folio 66b, n. 18; Tractate Baba Bathra, Folio 3b http://www.come-and-hear.com/bababathra/bababathra_3.html#PARTb.

  4 Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger). L. Annaei Senecae, Ad Novatum De Ira, Liber III, xvii–xviii (Essays on Anger, Book III).

  5 St. Augustine. Confessions, book 6, chapter 8, c. 397 and 400 AD.

  6 Seneca. De Clementia. 1.25.1.

  7 Plato. Philebus, 48a. In Harold N. Fowler, trans. Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press and London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.

  8 St. Augustine. Confessions, book 3, chapter 2, c. 397 and 400 AD.

  9 Kenna Quinet. “The Missing Missing: Toward a Quantification of Serial Murder Victimization in the United States.” Homicide Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, November 2007, pp. 319–39.

  10 Steven A. Egger. The Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998, pp. 74–75.

  11 Angus McLaren. A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. xiii.

  12 Mark Seltzer. Serial Killers: Death and Life in America’s Wound Culture. New York: Routledge, 1998, p. 1.

  13 Robert Kennedy. In Statement by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Government Operations Committee. Washington, DC: September 25, 1963.

  14 Peter Mehlman and Carol Leifer. “The Masseuse,” Seinfeld, NBC TV, episode first aired November 18, 1993.

  15 D. Kim Rossmo. Criminal Investigative Failures. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009, p. 31.

  16 Lora Grindlay. “Police Don’t Think a Reward Would Help.” Province, April 7, 1999, p. A18.

  17 Patrick Moores. (Re)Covering the Missing Women: News Media Reporting on Vancouver’s “Disappeared.” Master’s dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2006, p. 62.

  18 Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, sixth ed., p. 237.

  19 Ginger Strand. Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, Kindle ed.

  20 Ginger Strand, Ibid., Kindle locations 892–94.

  21 Ginger Strand, Ibid., Kindle location 939.

  22 Ginger Strand, Ibid., Kindle locations 927–28.

  23 Eric Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, seventh ed., p. 222. And Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  24 http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html [inactive].

  5. LUPINA INSANIA: CRIMINALIZING WEREWOLVES AND LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AS VICTIM, 1450–1650

  1 Brian Meehan. “Son of Cain or Son of Sam? The Monster as Serial Killer in Beowulf.” Connecticut Review, Connecticut State University, Fall issue, 1994, p. 2.

  2 Willem de Blécourt. “The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period.” In Allison Rowland, ed. Witchcraft and Masculinities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 207.

  3 Eric Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, seventh ed., pp. 335–36.

  4 B. T
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  5 Leslie A. Sconduto. Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2008, Kindle ed. (Kindle locations 3084–85).

  6 Robert Eisler and W. Robert Foran. “Lycanthropy in Africa.” African Affairs, vol. 55, no. 219, April 1956, pp. 124–34.

  7 Alberta Hannum. Spin a Silver Dollar: The Story of a Desert Trading Post. New York: Viking Press, 1945, p. 86.

  8 T. A. Fahy. “Lycanthropy: A Review.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 82, January 1989, pp. 37–39.

  9 E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, C. Tsiamis, G. Panteleakos, and D. Ploumpidis. “Lycanthropy in Byzantine Times (330–1453 AD).” History of Psychiatry Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 2009, p. 470.

  10 Robert Eisler.

  11 Kathy Freston. “Shattering the Meat Myth: Humans Are Natural Vegetarians.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html.

  12 Robert Eisler, p. 48.

  13 Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess, and John E. Douglas, Sexual Homicide, Kindle location 4151.

  14 John Louis Emil Dreyer. A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler. New York: Dover Publications, 1953, pp. 20, 37–38.

  15 Leslie A. Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf, Kindle location 219.

  16 St. Augustine, The City of God, Book XVIII.17.

  17 Wolfgang Behringer. Witches and Witch-hunts: A Global History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, p. 30.

  18 Glyn Sheridan Burgess. The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987, p. 175.

  19 Henry Charles Lea. Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, 3 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1939. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1957, vol. 1, pp. 179–80.

  20 Brian P. Levack. “The Horrors of Witchcraft and Demonic Possession.” Journal of Social Research, vol. 81, no. 4, Winter 2014, pp. 921–39.

  21 Richard M. Golden, ed. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Inc., 2006, pp. 713–15.

  22 E. Poulakou-Rebelakou et al., and Nadine Metzger. “Battling Demons with Medical Authority: Werewolves, Physicians and Rationalization.” History of Psychiatry, vol. 24, no. 3, 2013, pp. 341–55.

  23 Jan Dirk Blom. “When Doctors Cry Wolf: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Clinical Lycanthropy. History of Psychiatry, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014, pp. 87–102.

  24 Mansoureh Nasirian, MD, Nabi Banazadeh, MD, and Ali Kheradmand, MD. “Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy.” Addict Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 2009, pp. 53–56.

  25 Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf, chapters 3–7.

  26 Eva Shield. What Are Your Chances of Being Killed in a Terrorist Attack? http://pressfortruth.ca/top-stories/what-are-your-chances-being-killed-terrorist-attack. And Terrorism Statistics Every American Needs to Hear, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818.

  27 Jonathan L. Pearl. “French Catholic Demonologists and Their Enemies in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Church History, vol. 52, no. 4, December 1983, pp. 457–67.

  28 Anna Garland. “The Great Witch Hunt: The Persecution of Witches in England, 1550–1660.” Auckland University Law Review, vol. 9, no. 4, 2003, p. 1154. Contrary to popular claim, the Malleus Maleficarum was not the standard manual for witch-hunters everywhere, but it was highly influential. It was most used as a guide in the Germanic territories.

  29 Richard M. Golden, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, p. 720.

  30 Heinrich Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum. 1486, part 1: 63A–63C.

  31 Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, part 1: 7C; Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf, Kindle location 1849.

  32 On the nature of the charges against de Rais and Báthory, see Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers and Female Serial Killers, respectively.

  33 A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked sorcerer who in the likenes of a woolfe, committed many murders, continuing this diuelish practice 25. yeeres, killing and deuouring men, woomen, and children. Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31. of October last past in the towne of Bedbur neer the cittie of Collin in Germany. Trulye translated out of the high Duch, according to the copie printed in Collin, brought ouer into England by George Bores ordinary poste, the xi. daye of this present moneth of Iune 1590. who did both see and heare the same. At London: Printed (by R. Ward?) for Edward Venge, and are to be sold in Fleet-street at the sign of the Vine (1590). Early English Books Online: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A13085.0001.001.

  34 Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf, Kindle locations 1926–29.

  35 Jean Bodin. De la demonomanie des sorciers. Paris: n.p., 1587, pp. 106–7.

  36 Katherine Ramsland. The Human Predator. New York: Berkley, 2005.

  37 Pierre de Lancre. Tableau de L’inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons (On the Inconstancy of Witches and Demons), 1612.

  38 Pierre de Lancre and Sabine Baring-Gould. The Book of Were-Wolves. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1865.

  39 Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf, Kindle locations 2607–11.

  40 Nadine Metzger.

  41 Pierre de Lancre. L’incredulite et mecreance des sortileges. Paris: n.p., 1622.

  42 Claude de Laval Prieur. Dialog de la Lycanthropie, ou transformation d’hommes en loups, vulgairement dit loups-garous, et si telle se peut faire. Louvain, 1596.

  43 Beauvoys de Chauvincourt. Discours de la lycantropie [sic] ou de la transmutation des hommes en loups. Paris: n.p., 1599.

  44 Reginald Scot. The Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584. Brinsley Nicholson, ed. London: Elliot Stock, 1886.

  45 Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 90, March 7, 1964, p. 648.

  46 See for example: illustrations accompanying Rajeev Philip, Prem P. Patidar, Praveen Ramachandra, and Keshav K Gupta. “A Tale of Nonhormonal Hairs.” Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 16, no. 3, May–June, 2012, pp. 483–85, http://medind.nic.in/icd/t12/i3/icdt12i3p483.htm.

  47 Homayun Sidky. Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1997; Mansoureh Nasirian.

  48 Harold Schechter. Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men. New York: Little A, 2017.

  49 Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill. Trangressive Tales: Queering the Grimms. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012, p. 129; Anil Aggrawal. Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects. New York: CRC Press, 2011, p. xv.

  50 D. L. Ashliman. Little Red Riding Hood and Other Tales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 333. University of Pittsburg, http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html (retrieved December 5, 2015).

  51 Richard Chase Jr. and David Teasley. “Little Red Riding Hood: Werewolf and Prostitute.” The Historian, vol. 57, no. 4, Summer 1995, p. 769. Citing Charles F. Fort. Medical Economy During the Middle Ages. New York and London: J. W. Bouton, 1883, pp. 337–38.

  52 D. L. Ashliman, Little Red Riding Hood and Other Tales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 333.

  53 See for example: Katherine Ramsland, The Human Predator. And Dirk C. Gibson. Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? The Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012.

  54 Vern L. Bollough and James A. Brundage, eds. Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. And Ruth Evans, ed. A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages. New York: Berg, 2011. And Joyce E. Salisbury, ed. Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991.

  6. MALLEUS MALEFICARUM: THE GREAT WITCH HUNT AS A SERIAL-KILLING-WOMAN HUNT

  1 Angus McLaren.

  2 Mark Seltzer, Serial Killers,
p. 1.

  3 Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers. New York: Feminist Press at City University of New York, 1973. And D. Harley. “Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-witch.” Social History of Medicine, vol. 3, 1990, pp. 1–26.

  4 Jenny Gibbons. “Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt.” The Pomegranate, issue 5. Lammas: 1998, http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/feminist/gibbons_witch.html. And Brian A. Pavlac. “Ten Common Errors and Myths About the Witch Hunts, Corrected and Commented,” http://www.brianpavlac.org/witchhunts/werrors.html. And Malcolm Gaskill. “The Pursuit of Reality: Recent Research into the History of Witchcraft.” The Historical Journal, vol. 51, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1069–88. And Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters. Witchcraft in Europe, 400–1700: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, p. 17. And Niek Koning. “Witchcraft Beliefs and Witch Hunts: An Interdisciplinary Explanation.” Human Nature, no. 24, 2013, pp. 158–81.

  5 Robert J. Morton, Jennifer M. Tillman, and Stephanie J. Gaines. Serial Murder: Pathways for Investigation. Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, US Department of Justice, 2014.

  6 Garland, “The Great Witch Hunt: The Persecution of Witches in England, 1550–1660,” pp. 1168–69.

  7 Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, part 3, 211D, 214A.

  8 Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel, eds. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2010.

  9 Mary Daly. Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, p. 136.

  10 Anne L. Barstow. “Women, Sexuality, and Oppression: The European Witchcraft Persecutions.” Paper presented at the Conference of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, December 1987.

  11 Max Dashu. Reign of the Demonologists: The Diabolist Logic of Torture Trials in Early Modern Europe. 1998, http://www.suppressedhistories.net/secrethistory/demonologists.html.

  12 Gibbons, “Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt,” p. 1172.