Editing Taxil hoax (section)

==Confession==
On April 19, 1897, Léo Taxil called a press conference at the [[Société de Géographie]] at which he claimed he would introduce Diana Vaughan to the press. He announced instead that his revelations about the Freemasons were fictitious. He thanked the Catholic [[clergy]] for their assistance in giving publicity to his wild claims.<ref name=Confession>{{cite web
|url= http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_confessiontaxil.htm
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|title= The Confession of Leo Taxil
|date= April 25, 1897
|archive-date= 2008-05-13
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080513164148/http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_confessiontaxil.htm
|url-status= dead
}}</ref>

Taxil's confession was printed, in its entirety, in the Parisian newspaper ''Le Frondeur'', on April 25, 1897, titled: ''Twelve Years Under the Banner of the Church, The Prank Of Palladism. Miss Diana Vaughan–The Devil At The Freemasons. A Conference held by M. Léo Taxil, at the Hall of the Geographic Society in Paris''.<ref>''Is It True What They Say About Freemasonry?'' Authors: de Hoyos, Arturo and Morris, S. Brent, 1988, 2nd edition, pp. 27–36 & 195–228, Chap. 3, Leo Taxil: The Hoax of Luciferian Masonry, and Appendix 1, The Confession of Leo Taxil {{ISBN|1590771532}}</ref>

Despite this confession, belief in Vaughan and the Palladists did not entirely die out and a Palladist organization is central to the plot of the 1943 film, ''[[The Seventh Victim]]''.<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.2-Taxil/> The hoax material is still cited to this day. The [[Chick Publications]] tract, ''The Curse of [[Baphomet]]'',<ref>also called "That's Baphomet?"</ref> and Randy Noblitt's book on [[satanic ritual abuse]], ''[[Cult and Ritual Abuse]]'', both cite Taxil's fictitious claims.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.masonicinfo.com/books/cultritualabuse.htm | title = Book review: Cult & Ritual Abuse&nbsp;— Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America | access-date = 2009-04-05 | last = King | first = EL }}</ref>