Sacrificing for Science: How Science Carries On the Ancient Practice of Witchcraft

Lewis Ungit, lewisungit.substack, 9/23

Over the past century, we have retold the story of witches as proto-feminists being persecuted by the patriarchy for no good reason other than misogynism. But as I have written in the past, witches regularly confessed to practicing human sacrifice. Babies in particular were the victims of their efforts. Often these sacrifices were not simply killing the babies (and then burning or burying the remains). Instead, parts of the babies were used to advance the magic of the witches in some way. Sometimes the babies would be eaten to gain dark knowledge. Sometimes the babies would be used as an ingredient in some potent brew. 

Getting babies for these purposes required effort. Witches would sometimes masquerade as midwives for closer access. Consider this ancient account of one witch’s confession.

“Finally, another woman in the diocese of Strasburg confessed that she had killed more children than she could count. And she was caught in this way. She had been called from one town to another to act as midwife to a certain woman, and, having performed her office, was going back home. But as she went out of the town gate, the arm of a newly born child fell out of the cloak she had wrapped around her, in whose folds the arm had been concealed. This was seen by those who were sitting in the gateway, and when she had gone on, they picked up from the ground what they took to be a piece of meat; but when they looked more closely and saw that it was not a piece of meat, but recognized it by its fingers as a child’s arm…” – Malleus Maleficarum, 1486 AD. 

Or consider this other account of another midwife who confessed.

“She said also that the greatest injuries were inflicted by midwives, because they were under an obligation to kill or offer to devils as many children as possible; and that she had been severely beaten by her aunt because she had opened a secret pot and found the heads of a great many children.” – Malleus Maleficarum 1486 AD

And as above mentioned, the witches did something shocking. They consumed the babies. Consider this account.

“The former of these two abominations is the fact that certain witches, against the instinct of human nature, and indeed against the nature of all beasts, with the possible exception of wolves, are in the habit of devouring and eating infant children.” – Malleus Maleficarum 1486 AD

And the consumption was not just for sustenance. It was for knowledge.

“Then we secretly take them from their graves, and cook them in a cauldron, until the whole flesh comes away from the bones to make a soup which may easily be drunk. Of the more solid matter we make an unguent which is of virtue to help us in our arts and pleasures and our transportations; and with the liquid we fill a flask or skin, whoever drinks from which, with the addition of a few other ceremonies, immediately acquires much knowledge and becomes a leader in our sect.” – Malleus Maleficarum 1486 AD

The killing of babies for power and knowledge were hallmarks of witchcraft and the reason that many feared it so much. These accounts are so horrific that some have doubted them. Some historians have questioned how often this sort of thing actually took place and how much was simply slander of those writing the histories on the topic. 

But is it really so horrific that we can’t imagine anyone really doing it? Or is it still done and still justified in today’s society – not by witches but by academics, universities, and health officials?

Thanks to a FOIA request filed by Judicial Watch and the Center for Medical Progress we know that $3 million in federal funds were spent by the University of Pittsburg for human fetal tissue ranging from 6 to 42 weeks gestation. Pitt stated that they aimed to “develop a pipeline to the acquisition, quality control and distribution of human genitourinary [urinary and genital organs and functions] samples obtained throughout development (6-42 weeks gestation).” For the record, a baby is considered full term after 39 weeks. Some of these babies were full grown. Pitt was open about how many babies were involved stating, “we have disbursed over 300 fresh samples collected from 77 cases. The collections can be significantly ramped up as material could have been accrued from as many as 725 cases last year.” 

Pitt even bragged about having a “strong working relationship with UPMC [University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] and the Department of Pathology” and a lab that was proud of their “ButcherBoy band saw for sectioning bone.” A report published in “Nature” detailed one of the experiments that was particularly horrific in which these scientists grafted the scalps of some of these babies onto mice.

And as these experiments were being investigated, Pitt was “evasive” with answers from investigators when they were asked,

“whether the University of Pittsburgh used the body parts of babies who were born alive and died from having their organs harvested, as well as if individuals procuring the baby body parts for the university altered abortion procedures to suit their…research.”

What do these people harvesting full term babies (like the witches posing as midwives did in older days) and collecting hundreds of samples (also like the witches posing as midwives) hope to do with these bodies of babies? The reasons are remarkably similar to the reasons a witch would have given. Witches used the body parts to gain knowledge and power (to heal or curse). And Francis Collins (Director of the NIH) gave similar reasons for the Pitt funding.

“There are aspects of fetal tissue that can be extremely valuable in understanding how life works, how development happens, and how to treat certain diseases like Parkinson’s disease, for instance.”

Collins states that the body parts of murdered full term babies can be collected and consumed for “understanding” (aka knowledge) and power (aka how to heal). 

But Collins, Biden’s NIH, and the University of Pittsburg are hardly the first to practice such dark arts.

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1 thought on “Sacrificing for Science: How Science Carries On the Ancient Practice of Witchcraft”

  1. It’s difficult to fathom how any human being could be so abominable, unless they’re psychopathic or into hallucinogenic drugs. That’s speaking about witches.
    As for the modern lab psychos, you described them very well as Dr. Jekyll’s and Mr. Hyde’s; still anonymous savages above the thin blue line of civilization.

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