'HIV' Witchboys . . . Confession, Possession, Obsession
by Alex Russell

Continuum Magazine
VOL. 5 No. 1

"The people need wholesome fear; they want to fear something. They want
someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive"

-Ernst Roehm, gay leader
of the Nazi SA Brownshirts.

"The demon threatened to kill me if I had refused co-operation."

-Interrogation of five year-old witch Andreas Forster
before Bamberg's Inquisition, 8 May, 1629.

A confession written at a witch hunt trial in Bamberg, 1629 uncannily
resembles the typical interrogations of gay men suspected of being
'HIV+' by 'AIDS' counselors. The inquisitors recorded the
confessions of a child, referred to as 'Witchboy'. The court
authorities said that the accused was being visited by his demon even
in the presence of the inquisitors. The account of the Witchboy,
consisting of a twenty-four page deposition, is a revealing testimony
about the demonological belief of the time as shared by the accusers
and accused alike. The document serves as a memorial to the uncounted
multitudes of children murdered by the inquisitional machinery. My
essay serves as a memorial to the thousands persecuted and executed as
a result of the 'HIV' Witch Hunts.

The nine years old boy was brought before the interrogators and
declared himself willing to confess, after having been encouraged to do
so without the application of torture. The authorities named the boy a
witch based purely on accusation and rumour. The boy was willing to go
along with the accusation. A new identity emerged in the boy; he saw
himself as a recruit of the Devil. Witchboy blamed the cunning and
menacing demon for his wrong doings. Witchboy probably did believe in
his own fantastic stories which were formed out of mythomania,
brainwashing and the demonology embedded in Christian cosmology. The
Witchboy trial seems like 'HIV' counselling sessions with their
superstitious belief in a 'retrovirus' invested by pseudo science
with virtually paranormal powers. Belief in 'HIV' is like the
belief in the Holy Ghost or the Devil - a prerequisite article of
Faith. 'HIV' operates on three levels: the metaphysical as a
'demon identity'; the psychological as a fantasy object of desire
and the bio-chemical as an amorphous constellation of non-viral
material and non-specific proteins. Demonology now masquerades as
virtual virology.

'HIV+' identity exactly equates with demonic possession, and today
- as in the Middle Ages - the obsessive preoccupation is with how
to cast out the demon, 'HIV'. 'HIV Witch doctors' cast the
'evil eye' on the 'cursed-diagnosed' which can induce a
death-sentence in the naive and the gullible. Witchboy's experiences
resemble those of today's 'HIV+ Witchboys'. Consider the
transcript:

The Hearings, April, 3rd, 1629, Witchboy confessed:

"My friend George who stood beside my bed started to talk to me. He
tried to persuade me to learn the art of witchcraft... I didn't want
to get involved in witch-craft... George got very angry and would not
leave me alone...It was George who later became my little demon lover.
He grew two horns and had two goat's feet. He was usually in the
company of three friends and flew on a pitchfork on which there was
room enough for all three of them...George had already taught
witchcraft to two other playmates and these two now demanded to have
their own demon-lovers..."

Many 'HIV+ witchboys' form conversations with their 'demon
HIV'; like Witchboy had done with his demon, George. The late Derek
Jarman screamed vituperative abuse at his beloved 'HIV'. Jarman
insanely accepted a death-sentence pronounced on him by the 'HIV'
Inquisition and was slowly tortured to death by AZT-poisoning.

April, 4th, 1629; Witchboy confessed:

"Creek water was poured over me and I was baptized in the name of the
demon and of the demon's lord, the Devil. After the baptism was over,
my demon George tried to stab me in the left arm and in both eyes. But
since I was scared that it would hurt, I didn't want him to do it.
That made my demon quite mad and he threatened to break my neck.
Anyway, finally he got the upper hand and stabbed me in the arm and in
the eyes with a tiny spear that was very sharp. The blood was then used
to write my name into a secret book...I was to regard my demon as my
God and pray to him...Whenever I made the sign of the cross, I had to
do so in the name of my demon."

Witchboy's baptism is strikingly similar to the 'HIV' blood test
and today the damned have their medical files stamped with the Sign of
the Cross: 'HIV+'. The Demoniacal belief was conveyed to the
general population by the church and the Inquisition who firmly
believed that Witchboy was possessed by his demon while they were
interrogating him. The Inquisitors were convinced of the reality of the
nocturnal flight and the witches' Sabbath just as the 'HIV'
researcher is blindly convinced that 'HIV' is a lethal pathogen and
AZT can drive out Devils! The alchemic remedies brewed by 'HIV'
witch doctors to purge the 'virus' are little better than their
forbears who subjected their patients to a regime of emetics, leeches
and laxatives - sometimes prophylactically - all too frequently
resulting in the patients' deaths. 'Viral loads', the PCR
'HIV' tests and CD4 cell-counts are merely more 'sophisticated'
forms of dealing with viral-demon possession and amount to little more
than witchcraft masquerading as state of the art wizardry. Thus
ironically, the patient and physician are both victims of possession,
the former by the phantom 'virus', the later by scientific error.
John Mellors of the University of Pittsburg proclaimed: "Viral load has
nothing to do with infectivity!"

Like the 'HIV possessed' imagine their (demon) 'HIV' programmes
them, Witchboy confessed that he had to be obedient to his demon:

"My demon George commanded me to stop calling God...Instead, from then
on, I was to regard my demon as my God and pray to him- just as all
witches were supposed to pray to their demons...My job in the cellar
was to sit on top of the wine barrels and whip them with a leather
strap, which my demon had given me for exactly that purpose."

Witchboy and the 5-year old witch, Andreas Forster, believed that they
could fly and would 'lubricate' their 'pitchforks' for the
flights. Contemporary interpretations have connected 'lubrication'
to psychedelic drugs and 'flying' as analogous to 'tripping on
ecstasy'.

In 17th century Germany, witchboys were implicated in the use of
'prohibited pharmaceuticals'; entire groups of youths were
implicated in their use and were subsequently liquidated by the
Inquisition. Gangs of 'sorcerer-boys' were executed in Styria
(1678), Tyrol (1679), Salzburg (1678-90) and Bavaria (1690, 1698). The
vast majority of these drug-trials consisted of witchboy gangs who were
accused of killing people and livestock with their devilish lotions.
Bamberg's prince-bishops demanded the banning of folk-pharmacopeia
used in demon ritual (salves, ointments, greases, lotions). In 1617,
Bamberg's Prince-Bishop Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen declared a
war against drugs.

Many 'HIV+' witchboys practice pink-magic pharmacopeia-cocktails:
AZT with body building steroids, protease inhibitors with Ecstasy and
poppers with everything. The Devil's Powder and Lotions were blamed
for the spread of the Black Death by the Church; today's medical and
street drugs spread the Pink Plague: plus ça change...? The role of
narcotic-addiction and demonic-possession are the constant factors
found in 17th century witchboys and 'HIV+' witchboys. The
'HIV+' Witchboys' coven is held at the 'circuit parties'
where intoxication, orgies and substance use are rife. One advert for a
circuit party sponsered by several Dallas 'AIDS' groups read:
'ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!' Witchboy's confession
abounds with images of witchboy-gang members consuming urine, feces and
blood as the rituals belonging to their liturgy; just as many
'HIV+' Witchboys are into Yellow, Brown and Red; the ritualistic
codes of The Scene. London's Dr Mike 'Let Them Eat Cack' Youle
stated that it was safe to eat sh.t because there was not much
'HIV' in it. Moreover, Youle condones the lethal cocktail mix of
protease inhibitors with Ecstasy.

Historically, the Devil's attempt to win the person for his evil
purpose was invariably coupled with a sexual encounter; every witch
accusation simultaneously was an accusation of sexual transgression;
mainly sexual relations with the Devil. The old injunction - 'Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live' - is now adapted by the medical
profession - 'Thou shalt programme an HIV positive to
auto-destruct' - and they will be 'saved' by the purging of the
'virus'. Just as the Middle Ages believed in destroying the body to
save the soul, contemporary doctors are set on eradicating the
'virus' even if it means killing the patient. The death of the
patient is indeed the sign of the exorcism of the demon 'HIV'.

Possession, blood, death and an obsession with sex link medieval
demonology with contemporary quasi-virology. Just as many believed that
the Black Death was the doing of witches, so in the early 1980s
'AIDS' was dubbed as the 'Gay Plague'. Gay men now find
themselves in the ironic position of promoting and acting out the
homophobic fantasies of straight epidemiologists who have created a
global panic-pandemic based on their own sexual fantasy that 'AIDS'
is a sexually transmitted plague! The natural successor to Matthew
Hopkins, the Witch Finder General of 17th Century England is Robert
Gallo, the Virus Finder General, who described 'AIDS' as "the
crucible in which the field of immunology would have its baptism by
fire". Gallo proposes that gays and drug users are genetically
predisposed to the encouragement of 'HIV mutation'; prompting his
former colleague Peter Duesberg to remark: "According to Gallo's
hypothesis most American homosexuals, hemophiliacs and intravenous drug
users are mutants". Medieval-demonic possession, like 'HIV
diagnosis', has always been equated with 'deviant' sexual
activity. Once one is possessed with the Demon-'HIV' the only route
to salvation is through confession, penitence and expiation. The
Medieval mind was obsessed with how many angels could dance on the head
of a pin; today's obsession is with how many 'HIV
demon-particles' are present in a drop of blood: virtual-virology
displaces theology.

German 17th century witchboys' fabricated mythomanical stories to
please their interrogators; today bedevilled 'HIV+'s confess
elaborate fantasies for their 'HIV' counselors on how the demon
'HIV' possessed them often adapting their responses to meet
expectations. This extends even to being able to pinpoint the moment of
imaginary possession by the diabolic-'HIV' - from the night the
condom broke or the exposure to 'bad blood'. Playing the role of
the possessed can have a powerful physiological impact. Once the psyche
of an 'HIV+' has been programmed to a certain role definition, the
body may mimic the appropriate somatic symptoms. This is termed 'HIV
virtuality-sickness'. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan argued that a
radical break in one's psychological perception can trigger specific
biochemical changes and immune system reactions.

Gary Null reconfirms this view: "The mind itself is able to manifest
all the things that we call this 'AIDS' syndrome in the initial
immune depression. I believe that any correlation between a positive
HIV test result and a risk from immune suppression is purely psychic.
It can be traumatic, and it can be lethal..." (Zenger's, August,
1997). The 'HIV+' test result can initiate the subconscious desire
for 'AIDS-ing' which is so common amongst masochistic gay men (who
are predisposed to the Freudian Death-Drive). Thus, testing 'HIV+'
may catalyze repressed material, triggering the genesis of a
psychosomatic-illness which is then accelerated by 'anti viral'
drug regimes. The dividing line between sickness and health is always
arbitrary and is drawn by our own desires. Lacan and Freud argued that
there is 'pleasure' to be found in suffering and that psychosomatic
response is the register of unconscious desire. Medical doctors fail to
see that 'AIDS-ing' is also a psychosomatic conditions; - by
crudely reducing 'AIDSing' to the biological they fail to
acknowledge that the mind and body are inter-dependent.

Inquisitors' initial questions focused on the circumstances under
which the accused first met the Devil which invariably involved a
sexual encounter.

The sexual activity described in the more lurid confessions merged into
a phantasmagoria of orgiastic sex. The confessions were structured as
narratives, around the succession of temptation, diabolical pact,
Sabbath and harm done to neighbors. Just as the Inquisitors probed the
soul to extirpate the demon, today the probing tongues of
anally-obsessed 'HIV' counselors penetrate the rectum as the zone
of diabolic infection, applying proctology to demonology and declaring
rectal sex to be anathema. This voyeuristic obsession with sexual
diabolism blinds the patients' real symptoms, or more frequently, the
lack of them. Dementia and mental-illness were readily interpreted by
17th century Inquisitors in terms of demonic possession or obsession
just as dementia in 'AIDS' patients is superstitiously and
incorrectly attributed to 'HIV'.

The condition of being possessed by demons is recognized by outward
signs: the ritual of exorcism was 'The Test' involved to determine
whether a well-known set of symptoms had been identified, mainly
whether the demon had taken over the body. The neuro-physiological and
psychological signs that indicate Demonic Possession include: insomnia,
dementia, fever, mania, abdominal pain, a change in facial features and
auto-aggression up to suicide. Ironically, the demoniac-AZT also causes
insomnia, dementia, fever, mania and a change in facial features!

And death.

Hysteria, agitation, convulsions, copious foaming saliva, eating feces,
screaming fits and grinding teeth are further symptoms of demonic
possession.

Demoniac 'HIV Hysteria' has produced similar signs and symptoms in
'undiagnosed' and 'diagnosed' 'HIV' Witch finders: Martin
Delaney, Robert Gallo, Anthony Fauci, Simon Watney, Duncan Campbell and
Larry Kramer have been seen at public meetings ranting and frothing at
the mouth when any heretic dares to challenge their dogma of 'HIV'
obsession-possession. At the 'Transmission '96 Conference',
Kramer, with the manic gesticulations of a rabid mongrel dog, snarled
that Neville Hodgkinson's book AIDS - The Failure of Contemporary
Science should be: "spoilt, spat at, and rendered unreadable".
Kramer's retarded and reactionary actions typify the psychosis of
'HIV Hysteria'. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
hysteria was viewed as a sign of possession by the devil; today
hysteria may be regarded as possession by the evil spirit 'HIV'.
'HIV Hysteria' is more common in the 'undiagnosed'.

Capuchin Jacques d'Autun, in 1644, criticized the ignorance of judges
at witch trials which would seem to fit the blind bigoted prejudices of
'HIV' physicians and journalists:

"I am astonished by the behavior of some judges, who tremble at the
simple name of witches, and believe that all those suspected of
witchcraft are already convicted: the opinion which preoccupies their
mind is a colored glass, which transfers its hue to all the objects
which become before their eyes...Their readiness to believe the
witnesses who accuse an idiot (who does not know how to defend himself)
deceives them to such an extent that the stupidity of the accused
passes for a confession."

The gullibility of the 'HIV+' cursed results in an inevitable death
sentence and execution.

No witch-confession was complete without disclosing the other members
of the 'coven'; this ensured the inquisition machinery kept moving.
'HIV' witch doctors will also ask how many sexual contacts a
patient has had in order to co-opt them into the sexual cluster. This
is called contact tracing and exactly echoes suspected witches
pressured to denounce members of their coven.

Just as 17th century witchboys embroidered their sexual experiences to
satisfy the prurient cravings of their Inquisitors in the hope of
better treatment so the post-modern 'HIV+' witchboys will embroider
their virtual-reality 'HIV cripple-symptoms' to gain attention.

Some have even been taught by 'HIV' support-groups the lucrative
charade of faking 'HIV-virtual-disabilities' - i.e. walking
slowly - to qualify for higher benefit; thus milking the system in
revenge for imagined persecutions. Avarice triumphant overparanoia.
Many 'HIV+' witchboys have internalized the demonized mythology of
the 'HIV' Inquisition that rectal sex spreads the diabolic-'
HIV'. Yet 'HIV Grand Inquisitor', Dr David Ho, gave
'evidence' that 'viral load tests' show that 99.8% of putative
'HIV particles' are non-infectious - which rules out
sexual-transmission of the evil-'HIV'. 'HIV+' heretics that
refuse to 'believe' in 'HIV' are said to be in 'denial' and
may even have their 'HIV' benefits terminated; just as any
religious heretic will be denied the sacraments. If you are cursed
'HIV+' and slavishly subscribe to the 'HIV' myth they will give
you wads of cash and loads of drugs but you'll pay for it with your
life.

'HIV' counselors will even suspect an 'HIV' negative person
from a high risk-group of harboring a 'hidden' strain of 'HIV':
possession by association. Moreover, for an 'HIV negative' to
dabble with an 'HIV positive' is regarded as fraternizing with the
possessed.

Don Mattia Bergamasco wrote to the Inquisitor of Aquileia in 1628:

"I accuse before the Holy Office Girolamo Cucchiul, my practitioner, as
one who publicly professes to be able to identify the bewitched and
heal them, to know who are witches and even their names, without ever
having seen them. And he spreads this around with the danger that the
relatives of the victims might try to kill a person who may very well
be innocent."

How many 'HIV' witch doctors have accused and subsequently executed
someone suspected of being 'HIV+' possessed?

On 21 May 1649, Michele Soppe, a travelling witch doctor (benandante)
was arrested and incarcerated by the Holy Office on the charge of
infanticide. The Inquisitor had been informed that Soppe: "always goes
around from one village to another making signs over the sick, and
plies them with remedies to cure them, and he also reveals who has been
bewitched and how.."

Soppe confessed that he had killed children at devil's orders and
confessed that even his cures had occurred through the direct
intervention of the devil. Today, infanticide occurs through direct
intervention of AZT-euthanasia.

Techniques used by 'HIV' counselors could have been learned
directly from witch trial inquisitors:

1) establishment of possession (an 'HIV+' diagnosis'),

2) admission of sex with the Demon ('unprotected rectal sex'),

3) need to confess (outing one's self as 'I'm HIV+'),

4) channeling of guilt by identifying other members of your coven
('HIV' contact-tracing),

5) re-education or redemption (practicing 'safe sex'/ 'HIV'
witch doctors to the a lifetime of terrorized penitence),

6) progress toward a new harmony Gestalt ('living with HIV'),

7) final confession; I signed a pact with the Devil in my own blood
('I practiced unsafe sex'),

8) ritual redemptive slaughter - auto da fe (iatro-genic- death by
'antiviral' drugs).

Unless they are able to break this psychic-strangle-hold, persons
processed by the above techniques will become indoctrinated into
believing that they are 'possessed' by a demon - ('diagnosed'
with 'HIV'). Those that failed to break free from this mind-set
have allowed themselves to be ritually dispatched. 'HIV' witch
doctors reinforce 'HIV virtuality-sickness' in their patients
through voodoo-hypnosis and then execute them with 'antiviral'
drugs. If you want to live avoid 'HIV' witch doctors like the
plague.

John Lauritsen, in 'HIV Voodoo From Burroughs-Welcome' (New York
Native, 7.1.1991), quotes Dr Quentin Young's concept of
'iatrogenocide' as: "The systematic destruction of a large group of
people by doctors".

Once the demon 'HIV' is cast into the group-tranced 'believers'
they commit 'autogenocide': this echoes the miracle of the Gadarene
Swine when Christ exorcised the demons of sick people by casting them
into a heard of pigs who then dutifully killed themselves:

"So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to
go away into the heard of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when
they were come out, they went into the heard of swine: and, behold, the
whole heard of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and
perished in the waters". St Matthew, Chapter 8.

Like Lemmings, the 'virus possessed' are leaping into the
quick-sands of 'antiviral' drug-trials for an early-exit. People
suffering from demonic possession often report that the demon wants to
kill them by forcing them into a suicidal act. Suicide is the apex of
narcissism.

Witchboy's final confession:

"Now I wish to receive the Holy Eucharist to be safe from the demon; so
that the demon cannot reach me anymore".

Is this any different to 'HIV+s' being persuaded to receive AZT -
for their sins - as the last rites? The Eucharist devotion of gulping
AZT is the infantile desire to incorporate the Primal Father through
the mouth. 'AIDS' researchers come out with idiotic nursery-talk:
"Children with AIDS too often lose their minds. AZT can make them
better...An 8-year old boy, once normal, was rendered practically
autistic by HIV." (Science, 6.10.1989). Autistic 'HIV' Inquisitors
and their captive cloned clients are drawn towards these childishly
monstrous fantasies. This 'HIV belief' results in a regression to a
second childhood and a retreat from the complex (intellectual/cultural)
to the simple (mytho-mania/vegetative).

The 'HIV'-possessed are the Living-Dead, the Un-Dead. Held in a
kind of living-death, the 'HIV tranced' are like Antigone,
entombed, buried alive, deprived of air and sustenance. The desire for
the phantom 'HIV' is a desire to incorporate the absent Father. We
are no longer ruled by the Father, but the ghost of the Father, the
ghost of 'HIV'. These identificatory fusions help to give one a
binding and relevance with an Imaginary Order: the 'HIV' Primal
Horde of the Doomed. People will settle for any known set of
identifications, however regressive, in order to remain fixed into the
familiar symbolic order: 'HIV' as the cannibalized and internalized
Primal Father. The need to identify with 'HIV' compensates for an
impoverished and sterile existence. Desire to identify with 'HIV'
is founded in 'loss'. It is 'loss' that drives life and
'HIV' denotes a filler of this 'void'. To compensate for their
'lack-in-being', many gay men desire 'to be HIV'. Yet once they
are 'diagnosed HIV', they become deluded, bored and then the gulf
of 'lack' reopens and the gnawing sense of their nothingness
returns. The paradox of 'HIV Identity' is that, because its origin
is linked to desire, it is also non-identity - that is, the space
where the sense of Otherness enters the world.

Human beings pursue objects that sustain fantasies, even though
attaining an object of fantasy, such as 'HIV', can never completely
close the void. The crucial function of the fantasy-object 'HIV' is
that of filling up an actual void. While the desire for the
fantasy-object 'HIV' can never fill up the gap of loss itself it
can initiate a creative nexus of images and fantasies of plenitude and
empowerment that can liberate the self from the 'curse' of an
'HIV+' diagnosis. Desire reveals a power that disrupts any simple
'HIV self-identity', yet one that can also be the cradle for a new
opening. Rather than succumb to the religious bigotry of the 'HIV
Clergy', there are ever growing numbers of 'HIV diagnosed' who
refuse to be sacrificed 'HIV Witchboys' by rejecting the
group-delusion theology of the 'HIV Belief' system.

Like the multitudes persecuted and executed by the 'HIV' Witch
Hunts, Derek Jarman, Rudolf Nureyev, Denholm Elliott, Freddie Mercury,
Kimberly Bergalis, John Curry, Kenny Everett, Oscar Moore, Rebecca and
Bonnie Handel died from the iatrogenic 'HIV' voodoo-curse put on
them by the conclave of 'HIV' Inquisitors - counselors,
missionaries, doctors, journalists. These bewitched 'HIV+' martyrs
died for 'HIV Belief'; they were abject willing slaves of the
'HIV Clergy'. Their willingness to enter into 'HIV Slavery'
results from fear, guilt and ignorance coupled with a desire to
subscribe to a 'movement', a 'belief-system'. Enslavement is
always the final result of desire. The passionate devotion to the
'HIV Cause' means giving up one's critical faculty and succumbing
to a persistent vegetative state. Freud noted that when people leave
religions they see themselves regaining their critical faculties.
Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis may help the group-tranced
'HIV' Witchboys reclaim their critical thought and autonomous
being.

Sources

Bamberg Witchcraft Manuscripts, Cornell University Library, Rare Books
Dept.

Europe's Inner Demons, Norman Cohn. Pimlico. 1993.

How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World,
Felicitas D. Goodman. Indiana University Press. 1988.

Essays on the Pleasures of death: From Freud to Lacan, Ellie Ragland.
Routledge, 1995.

Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness, William Desmond. Yale University
Press. 1987.

A deal with the devil, Gabriel Rotello. The Advocate, 15 Oct. 1996.

Another Virus Finder General Prof. Richard Tedder, of University
College London, receives royalties for his 1986 patent (licensed to
Welcome) for the first UK 'HIV' antibody test:

"I spend a lot of time chasing the virus, because I hate its guts.
Alright? I may owe my professional career to a certain amount of
working with this virus but I despise it. And anything I can do to stop
it transmitting around the world I would gladly do. And that includes
putting you [defenders of non-HIV hypotheses] in your place."

UP-Front, Granada TV, 1992