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Satanism scare at cemetery

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 13 August 2006
11 August 2006 LONDON--A heartbroken family fear their parents' grave has been used by devil worshippers in a bizarre night-time ritual. Pensioner Doris Turner and her sister, Jessie Johnson, say they were shocked to find candles in tin holders left on the plot shared by their mother and father at Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington. The candle holders had symbols on them which they mistakenly believed were the Jewish Star of David, but later discovered was a pentagram associated with Satanists and their witchcraft rites. There have been several other incidents linked to the occult at the cemetery in the past. Thirteen years ago sick ghouls opened a family vault and stole human remains - and in 1986 a sex-change woman was charged with robbing graves and stealing the skull of a woman aged about 30 who was buried there. Doris says her parents' grave has also been the target for grave robbers and vandals over the years. The sisters broke down in tears rafter discovering marble memorials mounted on the grave had been stolen or were smashed. An inscribed black marble slab in memory of their father, Charles Hughes, and costing £2,000, had been wrenched from its mounts and taken, while a white ornamental open book inscribed to their mother, Mary, had been cleaved in two after being hit with a hammer or heavy object. However, what disturbed them even more was the discovery on another visit to the grave of candles in tin holders bearing the five-pointed symbol of the pentagram, which had been purposely placed there as if on an altar When they were alive, Doris's and Jessie's parents lived in Walford Road, Stoke Newington, but 35 years after their mother's death, they and the eight other children the couple had have all moved out of the borough. They are angry at the lack of security at the 32-acre Victorian graveyard, which is now a public nature reserve managed by the Abney Park Cemetery Trust. A spokeswoman for the trust said it was hoping to improve security by encouraging more community involvement with voluntary projects A spokesman for Hackney Council admitted that there had been problem with the cemetery's main pedestrian iron entrance gate, which had come off its hinges, and the cemetery had not been secured properly for a couple of nights. It has since been secured with a padlock and soon that will be replaced with a temporary gate until the original gate is repaired, he said. "The council has no liability for theft from graves," added the spokesman. http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshkyg&itemid=WeED11%20Aug%202006%2011%3A53%3A25%3A417

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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