![]() These tales were terrifying and thrillsome.Įven apparent innocence presaged the strange and sinister. ![]() Devil-worshippers listened to crazy music, weird sounds like you’d never heard before. People had seen the bones, the embers of the fires. On elevated land around Belfast – Black Mountain, Cavehill – there were stories of animal sacrifice and black masses. Laugh we might at the graffiti near the station – ‘We are Satin’s Slaves’ – but that misspelt word didn’t mean that Lucifer’s disciples weren’t skulking in our leafy suburban enclave. We believed that saying the Lord’s Prayer backwards at midnight while looking in the mirror would allow the devil to appear. None of this lot makes the cut: Khan is only 348, Rutherford 1098, and Rowland 888. Adolf Hitler scores a very close 660, proof of the stringency of this way to discover who is the ultimate enemy. Our mystical system is this: A = 1, B=2 and so on add up the letters of the name and multiply by 6. Teen fans of the divinatory arts are determining who out of Kevin Rowland, Chaka Khan and Paul Rutherford from Frankie most approximates the Antichrist. It’s 1984, a noisy Belfast classroom at break-time and some numerology is underway in the back of a homework diary. ![]() (The Most Approximate Anti-Christ Blackboard by Babak Ganjei)
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