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SUBJECT: HORSE MUTES RAISE FEARS OF "DEVIL WORSHIP" FILE: UFO1967
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3 11-01-88 02:22 aes
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Editors: Note nature.
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Horse mutilation raises fears of Devil worship
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RENTON, Wash. (UPI) _ A rancher's discovery that one of her horses
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was shot and mutilated over the weekend has police baffled and neighbors
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worried about a recurrance of ritualistic animal sacrifices by a satanic
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cult.
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Police say that sometime late Saturday or early Sunday someone
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apparently climbed over the electrified fence of Lee Broussard's ranch
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and shot her horse in the head.
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"I came out here (Sunday morning) to feed as usual and I opened
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the door at the back of the barn and the horse was laying in the back,
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mutilated," Broussard said. "I was shocked."
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The assailant had cut off the animal's penis and a deep gash in the
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horse's neck suggested its blood had been drained, police said.
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King County police said the mutilation could be a pre-Halloween
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prank by teenagers or the work of a cult, but had few clues to the right
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answer.
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But owners of other horse ranches along May Valley Road in south
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King County said they were convinced Broussard had been touched by devil
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worship.
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"If somebody was out to kill a horse they'd just go out and kill
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it, but they wouldn't mutilate it and take their blood," said neighbor
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Sue Matin. "That's bizarre, and to me, that's satanic."
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Leon Reed, a spokesman for the local pagan church known as Wicca,
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which pratices witchcraft, said if the mutilation was the work of a
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religious cult, it would be outside organized religion.
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"It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft," Reed said.
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"The Church of Satan in San Francisco disavows animal sacrifice as
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being an unneccesary act on the part of people."
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But he said fringe elements in the satanic church may believe that
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energy can be transferred from an animal to a human by killing the
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animal.
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The incident was reminiscent of a series of horse mutilations in
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Pierce County outside Tacoma, Wash., in 1984 that were never solved, but
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police said there was no way to tell if those killings were related to
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the new incident.
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