 The case has also been compared to the Salem witch trials.The accusations appeared at a time when there were tremendous questions being raised about the accuracy of memories of childhood abuse and incest.Books such as the self-help tome "The Courage to Heal", the discredited satanic ritual abuse autobiography "Michelle Remembers", and work by memory researchers such as Elizabeth Loftus all worked to support, contradict and challenge conventional beliefs about how memory and repression worked, or if the latter even existed.