by Sady Doyle
33 Her mother, Mary: Druin Burch, “When Childbirth Was Natural, and Deadly,” Live Science, January 10, 2009, https://www.livescience.com/3210-childbirth-natural-deadly.html.
34 “I am malicious”: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus (Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg EBook, 2008), p. 263. First published 1818.
35 “I, the miserable”: Ibid., p. 416.
36 “it is impossible”: Aristotle, Generation of Animals, book 2, pt. 5.
37 “will be no better”: Ibid.
38 There is a growing: Kate Bolick, “Should You Have a Baby on Your Own?” Cosmopolitan, May 11, 2015, https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a40134/having-a-baby-by-yourself/.
39 Not only do transgender: Katelyn Burns, “Yes, Trans Mothers Can Breastfeed—Here’s How,” Them, May 9, 2018, https://www.them.us/story/trans-women-breastfeed.
CHAPTER SIX
1 “from her early childhood:” “A Hampshire Ghost Story,” The Gentleman’s Magazine: Vol. IX, July–December 1872, ed. Joseph Hatton, p. 548.
2 “Without the utmost”: Ibid., pp. 551–52.
3 “the footsteps of a man”: Ibid., p. 667.
4 “who lay in the room”: Ibid., p. 670.
5 “there was scarce”: Ibid.
6 “It is very unfit”: Ibid., p. 550.
7 “thrice called at”: Ibid., p. 675.
8 “Lucy said, ‘God’ ”: Ibid., p. 677.
9 “The plot is this”: Heather Abel, “The Baby, the Book, and the Bathwater,” The Paris Review, January 31, 2018, https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/31/baby-book-bathwater/.
10 “harmful neurologic effects”: Dr. William Sears, “The Effects of Excessive Crying,” Ask Doctor Sears, https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/fussy-baby/science-excessive-crying-harmful.
11 “That almost is”: Kate Pickert, “The Origins of Attachment Parenting,” TIME, May 21, 2012, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2114427-2,00.html.
12 “Babies in our culture”: Ibid.
13 “the practice that dominates”: Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), ch. 2.
14 “There are no date”: Pickert, “The Origins of Attachment Parenting.”
15 “An hour given to”: Abel, “The Baby, the Book, and the Bathwater.”
16 “Sometimes the child”: Diane Purkiss, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things (New York: New York University Press, 2003), p. 54.
17 “It was a figure”: Jennifer Kindhouse, “Postpartum Psychosis—Shedding Light on the Demon,” Life in Italics, March 1, 2012, https://lifeinitalics.com/mnb-archives/postpartum-psychosis-shedding-light-on-the-demon/.
18 “He wasn’t even”: Ibid.
19 “had an ever-growing”: Catherine Carver, “Postpartum Psychosis: ‘I’m Afraid of How You’ll Judge Me, as a Mother and as a Person,’ ” Mosaic Science, July 3, 2017, http://mosaicscience.com/story/post-partum-psychosis-birth-mental-health-babies/.
20 “In folktales”: Purkiss, At the Bottom of the Garden, p. 58.
21 “How do we know”: Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child (New York: Vintage International, 2010), pp. 105–06.
22 “it goes without saying”: Ibid., p. 17.
23 “This was a house”: Ibid., p. 24.
24 “half of them would”: Ibid., p. 16.
25 “goblin”: Ibid., p. 49.
26 “good little chap”: Ibid., p. 99.
27 “physically normal”: Ibid., p. 63.
28 “her heart was hurting”: Ibid., p. 83.
29 “the problem is not”: Ibid., p. 103.
30 “A breast-fed baby”: Ibid., pp. 53–54.
31 “What she wanted”: Ibid., p. 103.
32 To this day: Zoe Carpenter, “What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?” The Nation, February 15, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-killing-americas-black-infants/.
33 After widespread public: Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, “AP Investigation: Deported Parents May Lose Kids to Adoption,” AP News, October 9, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/97b06cede0c149c492bf25a48cb6c26f.
34 “the only parents”: Mariano Castillo, “Undocumented Immigrant Mother Loses Adoption Battle,” CNN, July 18, 2012, https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/us/missouri-immigrant-child/index.html.
35 Single mothers have: Bryce Covert, “Having a Child Will Bankrupt You,” ELLE, January 25, 2017, https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a42230/cost-of-child-care/.
36 As of 2016: “Childcare Workers,” Data USA, https://datausa.io/profile/soc/399011/#demographics.
37 Black, Latina, and immigrant: Asha DuMonthier, Chandra Childers, and Jessica Milli, The Status of Black Women in the United States (Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2017), https://www.domesticworkers.org/sites/default/files/SOBW_report2017_compressed.pdf.
38 “there could be no”: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg eBook, 2018), p. 24. First published 1898.
39 “absolutely unnatural goodness”: Ibid., p. 143.
40 “In spite of our”: Élisabeth Badinter, Mother Love: Myth and Reality (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980), p. xx.
41 “Maternal love is not”: Ibid., p. xxiii.
42 “I am well familiar”: Nan Robertson, “The ‘Myth’ of Mother Love Is Challenged,” The New York Times, November 16, 1981, https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/16/style/the-myth-of-mother-love-is-challenged.html.
43 Of course, we are: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “An Icon of Psychology Falls from His Pedestal,” The New York Times, January 13, 1997, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/13/books/an-icon-of-psychology-falls-from-his-pedestal.html.
44 “we are repulsed”: Badinter, Mother Love, p. xxiii.
45 “A happy family”: Gerald Brittle, The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Los Angeles, CA: Graymalkin Media, 2013), ch. 15.
46 “has anyone in”: Ibid., ch. 10.
47 “her leash got wrapped”: Andrea Perron, House of Darkness, House of Light: The True Story, vol. 1 (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011), p. 3.
48 “a poet since childhood”: Ibid., p. 26.
49 “Carolyn began to withdraw”: Ibid., p. 75.
50 “[Carolyn] recalls it”: Ibid., p. 76.
51 “When she leans over”: Ibid., p. 210.
52 “No eyes no mouth”: Ibid., p. 189.
53 “Negative emotions conjure”: Brittle, The Demonologist, ch. 15.
54 “create an emotional”: Ibid.
55 “can’t move can’t speak”: Perron, House of Darkness, House of Light: The True Story, p. 189.
56 “My children cause me”: Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution—Tenth Anniversary Edition (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1986), p. 21.
57 “As soon as [a child]”: Ibid., p. 23.
58 “There is no human”: Ibid.
CHAPTER SEVEN
1 “She’s not missing”: Harold Schechter, Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho (New York: Pocket Books, 2010), p. 60.
2 “a forest with”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile – Complete 25 Page Profile (Digital Download .PDF File),” December 18, 1957, p. 6 (collectibles website), accessed April 10, 2019, http://serialkillersink.net/skistore/ed-gein-psychological-profile-complete-25-page-profile-digital-download-pdf-files.htm.
3 “evil spirit”: Ibid., p. 1.
4 “His only description”: Ibid., p. 5.
5 “My mother was”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Confession – Complete 226 Page Confession (Digital Download .PDF File),” 1957, p. 15 (collectibles website), accessed April 11, 2019, http://serialkillers
ink.net/skistore/ed-gein-full-confession-226-pages-pdf-instant-download.html, p. 15.
6 “[Gein’s] feelings for his father.”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 6.
7 “seems to have been”: Ibid., p. 9.
8 “When she was sick”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Confession,” p. 33.
9 “She didn’t deserve”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 5.
10 “was the result”: Ibid., p. 1.
11 “will power”: Ibid.
12 “Hitler’s mother gave”: Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (New York: Random House Canada, 2018), p. 360.
13 “dominant, Bible-punching”: Robert Keller, “Macabre World of the Warped Killer Who Inspired Silence of the Lambs—Featuring Soup Bowls Made from Human Skulls and Even Grislier ‘Trophies,’ ” Daily Mirror, August 30, 2017, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/grisly-world-warped-killer-who-11081022.
14 “the leading contributor”: “Augusta Gein,” Real Life Villains Wiki, http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Augusta_Gein.
15 “a coarse-featured”: Robert Keller, Unhinged: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein (self-published, 2017), p. 8.
16 “a formidable woman”: Ibid.
17 “[she] never doubted”: Ibid.
18 “fury at the terrible”: Ibid., p. 223.
19 “pulled”: Schechter, Deviant, p. 17.
20 “the application of pure”: John C. Waller, Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2014), p. 56.
21 “not as strong”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 24.
22 “ordering her husband”: Schechter, Deviant, pp. 13–14.
23 “George inevitably reached”: Keller, Unhinged, p. 9.
24 “Ed’s father, George”: Keller, “Macabre World of the Warped Killer Who Inspired Silence of the Lambs.”
25 “though George could”: Harold Schechter, The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003), p. 191.
26 “George [was] a weakling”: Keller, Unhinged, p. 8.
27 “this attachment [is]”: Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence, trans. A. A. Brill (New York: Bartleby.com, 2010), ch. 3. First published 1910.
28 “the boy was altogether”: Ibid.
29 “The presence of”: Ibid.
30 “his attachment to”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 9.
31 “There are remarkably”: Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Methods and Madness of Monsters (Berkeley: Berkeley Books, 2004), p. 272.
32 “a boy’s ability to”: Ibid., p. 273.
33 “death-ritual games”: John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit (New York: Scribner, 1998), p. 100.
34 “seemed appropriate”: Ibid., p. 102.
35 “was popular with”: Ibid., p. 105.
36 “treated her timid son”: Ibid., p. 104.
37 By thirteen, he had: Vronsky, Serial Killers, pp. 258–59.
38 “I just wondered”: Douglas and Olshaker, Mindhunter, p. 100.
39 “knew all the buzzwords”: Ibid., p. 107.
40 “This grave-robbing”: Paul Martin, Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem (New York: Prometheus Books, 2014), p. 78.
41 “Mrs. Worden [was]”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 2.
42 “Life magazine, which”: K. E. Sullivan, “Ed Gein and the Figure of the Transgendered Serial Killer,” Jump Cut, July 2000, https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC43folder/EdGein.html.
43 “Questioning this man”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Psychological Profile,” p. 8.
44 “do you ever”: Serial Killers Ink, “Ed Gein Confession,” p. 61.
45 “I am trying”: Ibid., pp. 60–61.
46 “I suppose I could”: Ibid., pp. 59–60.
47 “who was pushed”: Jos Truitt, “My Auntie Buffalo Bill: The Unavoidable Transmisogyny of ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ” Feministing, March 10, 2016, http://feministing.com/2016/03/10/my-auntie-buffalo-bill-the-unavoidable-transmisogyny-of-silence-of-the-lambs/.
48 “claiming and owning”: Ibid.
49 “what they call”: Robert Bloch, Psycho: A Novel (New York: Crest, 1960), ch. 1.
50 “lustful, sweating, foul-mouthed”: Schechter, Deviant, p. 15.
51 “Margaret White is”: Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Surrey, UK: FAB Press, 2012), appendix.
52 “If ‘The Exorcist’ ”: “Carrie (1976): Taglines,” IMDB, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/taglines?ref_=tt_stry_tg.
53 “I’m not guilty”: Associated Press, “Child’s Murderer Recaptures Fame,” Daily Kent Stater, October 26, 1994, https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks19941026-01.2.41.
54 “for her age”: Schechter, Deviant, p. 99.
CONCLUSION
1 “sold more copies”: Catherine Sanders, Wicca’s Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality (Colorado Springs: Shaw Books, 2005), p. 38.
2 “here are four girls”: Roger Ebert, “The Craft,” Roger Ebert Reviews, May 3, 1996, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-craft-1996.
3 “the personage called”: Margaret A. Murray, “Child Sacrifice Among European Witches,” Man 18 (April 1918): 60–62, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2788189.pdf.
4 “seven methods by which”: Heinrich Kraemer and James Sprenger, The Malleus Maleficarum, trans. Rev. Montague Summers, ed. Wicasta Lovelace, http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/downloads/MalleusAcrobat.pdf.
5 “Three general vices”: Ibid.
6 “He tell me he”: Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal and Hysteria in 1692 Salem (New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2015), p. 57.
7 “money, silks, fine cloths”: Ibid., p. 330.
8 “French fall shoes”: Ibid., p. 251.
9 “sensual indulgences”: Ibid., p. 339.
10 “We need to go”: Mattie Kahn, “The Pussy Hat Is an Imperfect, Powerful Feminist Symbol That Thousands Will Be Wearing This Weekend in DC,” ELLE, January 17, 2017, https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a42152/pussyhat-project-knit-protest/.
11 “I’m a witch”: Lindy West, “Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt. I’m a Witch and I’m Hunting You,” The New York Times, October 17, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/opinion/columnists/weinstein-harassment-witchunt.html.
12 “a coven of witches”: Michael Stone, “Conservative Christians Claim Ocasio-Cortez Is a Witch Leading Attack Against Trump,” Patheos, February 20, 2019, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/02/conservative-christians-claim-ocasio-cortez-is-a-witch-leading-attack-against-trump/.
13 “CONFRONT THE WHOREMAKERS”: Jo Freeman, “W.I.T.C.H.—The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell,” http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/witch.html.
14 “You are a Witch”: Indigo Baloch, “Why W.I.T.C.H. (The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) Needs to Make a Comeback,” The Odyssey, February 1, 2016, https://www.theodysseyonline.com/get-witchy.
15 “Because WITCH actions”: Freeman, “W.I.T.C.H.—The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell.”
16 “The word Witch”: Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (New York: HarperCollins eBooks, 2011), ch. 1.
17 “women are not encouraged”: Ibid.
18 “I was not the only”: Rebecca Traister, “The Ugly Truth About
the RNC: Donald Trump Is Not an Outlier,” New York magazine, July 20, 2016, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/ugly-truth-about-the-rnc.html.
19 “The priests were”: Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg, 2013), p. 42. First published 1920.
20 “For forty days”: “Thomas the Rhymer,” in Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 37A.7, http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch037.htm.
