Fearing the return of “Satanists,” the inhabitants of a New Forest community have hung a severed deer head from a central street lamppost. There has been a lengthy history of “sacrificial killings” in the region associated with those worshipping the Devil, and this newest horrific deed adds to that list.
The police in Hampshire are looking into claims that animals that had been mutilated were strung up on public display near the town of Burley. Tucked away in the New Forest, this hamlet has a very lengthy history of witchcraft. Locals there believe that a group of cowl-clad demon worshipers are responsible for a slew of “sacrificial” killings. Police are conducting high-visibility patrols today in response to horrified locals’ reports of seeing the disfigured animals.
Two weeks before the deer killings, Andrew Parry-Norton, 55, and Sarah, his wife, discovered some slaughtered sheep. (Parry-Norton is the chairman of the Commoners Defence Association.)
‘Sick and twisted’ were the assailants’ descriptions given by the couple who operate Storms Farm near Cadnam, 10 miles from Burley. Their best guess is that a knife or barbed spear was used for the grisly ritual.
The Reverend David Bacon expressed his dismay at the two targets in December 2022 who attacked the ‘upsetting’ 12th-century St. Peter’s Church on Judds Hill. Following the discovery of intentionally abandoned animal corpses, the vicar issued a warning of “sinister” activities.
Suspected Satanists terrorized the same New Forest town in 2019, stabbing and spray-painting lambs and vandalizing Rev. Bacon’s medieval church with the same occult symbols.
Throughout the years, Burley has been subject to intense examination because of allegations of witchcraft. In the 1950s, it was the home of Britain’s most famous “white witch,” Sybil Leek.
The town has eagerly capitalized on its associations with witchcraft. It has three stores offering readings, spells, and items related to witchcraft.
The number of adherents of alternative faiths, such as Satanism, Paganism, and Shamanism, has skyrocketed between the censuses of 2011 and 2021. There were 1,893 Satanists in England and Wales in 2011, but by 2021, that number had more than quadrupled to 5,054. The South and East had the most significant increase in Satanists, with 795 new adherents in 2021—a 167% increase.