The website the list came from - DemonBusters - was a last gasp from that period of the 1970's and 80's in America when some conspiracy theorists (with a heavy Christian leaning) thought there was a vast Satanist organization that was systematically brainwashing the youth of America (when they weren't involving and/or abusing said youth in demonic rituals). Folks like the Madraks (the authors of the DemonBusters website) played up "occult" as a code word for this supposed vast Satanist organization, usually capitalizing the word as if it was the name of this imaginary organization.
Lists like this were actually used in America (at least by nutters) to determine if your neighbors or (heaven forbid!) your children had fallen under "the Occult". Sadly, these type of lists - all as silly as this one - hung around for over a decade, and are making a bit of a comeback (minus the term "occult," which is slowly returning to its original usage).
I'm assuming that Australia was far more level headed about these sorts of delusions.
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Date: 2007-04-05 05:23 am (UTC)Lists like this were actually used in America (at least by nutters) to determine if your neighbors or (heaven forbid!) your children had fallen under "the Occult". Sadly, these type of lists - all as silly as this one - hung around for over a decade, and are making a bit of a comeback (minus the term "occult," which is slowly returning to its original usage).
I'm assuming that Australia was far more level headed about these sorts of delusions.