A child cannot "imagine" a priestess of Satan, dressed in black and adorned with symbols (I've seen the symbol
@Jostler shared), using a wickedly curved knife --- the likes of which he had never witnessed before --- to do unspeakable things to people bound and suspended on racks made of skin and bone. This is not something a child would dream up in the firmament of his mind.
The child would not imagine finding himself surrounded by piles of human bones crawling with snakes.
The child would never, in his wildest dreams, imagine that this ritual was intended to fashion him into rage incarnate, a mindless killer and the terror by night. I struggled with memories of the rituals (there was more than one) for quite some time, by far the most daunting challenge I've faced on this earth. Yes...
I've faced bullets and the guns of wicked men... I have walked in the shadow of death... and nothing can quite compare to the horror of those rituals.