Weird Religious Tract Number 17: "I Discovered The Real Person and Power Behind Witchcraft" by Life Messengers

Troy Davis writes:

I previously wrote about Life Messengers.  Their tracts were the main comic tract competition to Chick Publications in the 1970s. Their tracts had a distinctly funky '70s vibe but they tended, on average, to be less inflammatory than Chick tracts (especially after Jack Chick embraced Alberto Rivera and anti-Catholicism in the late '70s).

This tract from 1973 tells the story of UK-born spiritualist Ben Alexander who attended seances in order to find spiritual truths. He claimed after one séance with a "trumpet medium," a spirit appeared (Alexander notes that he checked the séance room beforehand to detect and chicanery--he found none);  soon thereafter, he was haunted by scary demonic entities. However, he met some Christians at a gathering and devoted his life to Jeebus and against Spiritualism.  The tract warns about Ouija boards, astrology, and drugs  being conduits to demonic possession--kind of like my series of Chick tract parodies. I rate this tract TF for Thoroughly Funky!

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