Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

When it comes to Satan we're true believers, but what do our Satanist peers and antecedents really believe in, and why is so much of it so weird?

The forbidden fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.

Blasphemy: Is it a means to an end, or just a means to offend? We've got unspeakable opinions on Blasphe-Me and Blasphe-You, with Dex and Chalice.

The most bewitching witching hour, from Spectres to Satanisms to feminist revolutions.

While modern research digs at the roots of our evolutionary tree, the public's relationship with science is in danger of becoming dead wood. Aron Ra joins us for a discussion about ancient ancestors and modern misconceptions.

Something Wicker this way comes, as we rekindle our interest the most heathenish of horror classics, 50 years after it scared the Hell into audiences.

Author Jack Legg is here to dig up all the dirt on the Satanic Panic in his own backyard with his new book "Digging Up Devils," the story of 80 human sacrifices that never happened.

On this episode: How can greed be a sin if it also makes the world go round? Ethicist John Paul Rollert joins us as we cash in our chips.

We're biting off more than we can chew with mythical Satanic cannibals past and present, and it's a mouthful.

Its time to correct some clerical errors with our comprehensive history of Sinister Ministers--fictional and factual.

Our favorite feminist fiend is back, as we uncover even more esoteric history revealing why Lilith always comes out on top.

We remember the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special--and then drink to forget the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special.

We've tested Testaments new and old, and so it came to pass that we delve into the most fundamentally American of all fundamentalist American religions and meet their really weird devil.

It's a buyer's market, but everything must go! Sidney Sin joins us for a who's who of who's sold their souls for fame, fortune, and malevolent musicality in human history.

Pazuzu, king of ancient wind demons and friend to children everywhere; but what made Pazuzu the most popular demon of his day, and what can his myth tell us about the nature of religion, morality, and storytelling? Digital Hammurabi's Megan Lewis explains.

Black Mass Appeal is developing a King James Aversion with this down and very dirty study of the absolute worst parts of the Bible.

Where do you go for face time with the Big S? To the library, of course.

We're making a Halloween house call to America's most famous haunted home to learn how the Amityville Horror conjured a new brand of American demonology.

Atun-Shei Film's Andrew Rakich talks religion, race, and recreancy with his new Satanic historical thriller "The Sudbury Devil."

We are angel investors once again as we discuss the Satanic queer vibes of "Good Omens."

In the thrilling conclusion of our Black Miskatonic Appeal game: Who lives? Who dies? And who has to submit to Misty's community theater tryouts?

That is not dead what can eternal lie, but what if it's just been lying for 150 episodes or so, how dead is it then?

What Satanic secrets do we dig up in this grave underaking?

On this episode: We don't know the meaning of the word...but that's about to change.

Beelzebub has visited us with a very inconvenient virus, so while we reschedule our regular BMA, here's another little peak into Tabitha's private library to tide us all over. This time: Neo-Exorcist and Lego hair pioneer Bob Larson exercises our patience.

Just for our Patreon backers, Tabitha is cracking the books and cracking the mysteries of Stonehenge. What will we learn? Well, we're talking about Mike Warnke here, so probably not much--but hey, at least it's a party.

How did a tiny Southern California school end up giving an object lesson in the dangers of mass hysteria? To help us prosecute the McMartin Preschool case, we're joined by lawyer and YouTuber Leonard French.

Satan springs eternal, but where did he spring from? Often we see older gods and religious figures compared to Satan and held up as his supposed origins, but is this accursed ancestry legit?

In possibly our funniest episode ever, you say to-may-to and we say to-mah-to as we pick apart this pick-up manual for Satanists.

We're mad as Hell. No, really, literally this time.

We're returning the world of Silver Screen Satanism in the days before major film censorship for some historical Hollywood heresies. SHOW LINKS KSAT: San Antonio man wrongfully convicted in 1991 has charges dismissed in Satanic Panic case Australian Center for the Moving Image: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code Faust (1926) A landscape of nightmares, Roger Ebert (2005) Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood, by Russell A. Berman (1993) Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles, by Inez Hedges (2005) The Magician (1926) American Film Institute Catalog: The Magician An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, by Carlos Clarens (1968) American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929, by John T. Soister et al (2012) The Magician, by Somerset Maugham (1908) The Black Cat (1934) Horror In the Movies, by Daniel Cohen (1982) American Film Institute Catalog: The Black Cat Classics Of the Horror Film, by William K Everson (1974) The History of Horror Cinema: The Black Cat, Ian Champion (2016) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

By 1988, the Satanic Panic was starting to run out of steam, so Harvest House Publishing pushed a brand new absurdo-biography tell-all to stoke its engines. Is "Satan's Underground" the worst Satanic Panic memoir ever published–or just the worst we've read for this show?

When it comes to Satanic aesthetics, you know the drill. But these days, we can't help but notice a lot of Satanic art and fashion is looking downright cute – even adorable. Artist Artetak joins us to discuss this brand of "Soft Satanism." SHOW LINKS Artetak! Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube The Daily Voice: NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School With 'Satan Club': DA, Mac Bullock (2023) Jezebel: Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The Technicolor Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank, Tracie Egan Morrissey (2013) Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai - The cute, the interesting, and the zany, Adam Jasper and Sianne Ngai (2011) Monstrous/Cute. Notes on the Ambivalent Nature of Cuteness, Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska, Adam Mickiewicz University (2007) The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness, Diane Negra et al (2017) Lucifer aspired to be a god, not a goat: On Satanic aesthetics, The Satanic Scholar (2017) GQ: Poop, sacrifice and exhortation: How Cult of the Lamb broke the gaming internet, Robert Leedham (2022) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When it comes to Deadly Sins, there's one option you can always count on for putting skin in the game. So why do conventional religions have so many intimate inhibitions about Lust, and what can we do with the baggage we've inherited from them? SHOW LINKS Salon: "The Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic" is a thing that exists now, Kelly McClure (2023) Cathechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil, by Stanford M. Lyman (1989) The Book of Watchers (Third Century BCE) The Old Enemy, by Neil Forsyth (1989) Adam, Eve, & the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels (1988) The Devil: A New Biography, by Philip C. Almond (2014) Satanic sexuality: understanding Satanism as a diversity issue for sex and relationship therapists, Eric Sprankle et al. (2021) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're taking everybody's advice and going to Hell! For as long as people have believed in a fiery underworld, they've spread stories about how to get there from various locations around the world; so when you want to go somewhere just for the Hell of it, where should you set your sites? SHOW LINKS The Telegraph: Young sacrifice belief in God on altar of Satanism, Gabriella Swerling (2023) The Lineup: Stull Cemetery: A Hellmouth in the Heart of Kansas (2018) Atlas Obscura: Hellam Township (2013) Smithsonian Magazine: Fire in the Hole - Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming, Kevin Krajick (2005) Electrum Magazine: Gehenna: Hell as Metaphor? What and Where was it? (2019) Forward: If You Don't Know the Way to Hell, You Can Find It on a Map, Philologos (2014) National Geographic: Greece's river to the 'underworld' now lures adventure travelers, Maria Atamatzidou (2022) Oregon State University: Hekla - The Gateway to Hell, Adonara Mucek (2015) Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town, by Lucy Riall (2013) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Of all the books in Lucifer's Library, one is overdue more often than all the others. But in the 50-plus years since the publication of the Satanic Bible, what has the world been saying about it, and how should these perspectives inform our own? SHOW LINKS A Journey to Hell: My Visit to the Houston Satanic Temple's Art Show, Michael Hardy (2022) Marburg Journal of Religion: Diabolical Authority: Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible and the Satanist "Tradition," James R. Lewis (2002) Satanism: A Social History, by Massimo Introvigne (2016) Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements: New Bibles and New Revelations, by Eugene Gallagher (2014) Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture, by Bill Ellis (2004) In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult, by Robert D. Hicks (1991) Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion, by Joseph P. Laycock (2020) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We've heard of the banality of evil, but this wasn't really what we imagined.

We unleash the weirdest depths of Tabitha's Satanic Panic library.

The future is now – and also later, and arguably anytime we want it. With 2023 looming, we're looking ahead and behind at some of our biggest Satanic and personal ambitions, and wondering which of them we'll summon up for ourselves in the new year? SHOW LINKS WAAYTV: Business Owner Defends Yule Festival GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Every Satanist knows that there are really only two magic words in life: Hail Satan. But where does this phrase come from, and why DO we say it so often? SHOW LINKS WCIA: Satanic Temple adds 'Serpent of Genesis' to Capitol Rotunda holiday display, Danny Connolly, Cole Henke (2022) Latin for Satanists: How to hail Satan in proper Latin, Nahn Cerwyam (2019) Eccentric Tales: In Verse: The Monk of Cambray, collected by William Barnes Rhodes, George Colman (1812) A Hymn To Satan: & Other Translated Poems, Giosue Carducci (1865) St. Clement's Eve: A Play, Sir Henry Taylor (1862) BFI Film Classics: Rosemary's Baby, Michael Newton (2020) YouTube: Satanic Mass, Pt. 1, Coven (1969) The Church of Satan I: Volume I, Michael A. Aquino (2013) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

"It's my time now," Satan declares in the 1997 horror/drama Hollywood hit The Devil's Advocate, starring Al Pacino as the original boss from Hell. Now, at the film's 25th anniversary, has his time passed -– or has this become a truly timeless work? SHOW LINKS LiveScience: Why Does the Devil Have Horns & Hooves?, Tom Metcalfe (2022) Publisher's Weekly: What I Learned From Bestselling Author Andrew Neiderman, Sari Feldman (2018) The Devil's Advocate, by Andrew Neiderman, Pocket Books (1997) History of Religions: The Devil at Law in the Middle Ages, Karl Shoemaker (2011) Forbes: That Time In The Middle Ages When The Devil Became A Lawyer, Matthew Gabriele (2018) LA Times: Jumping Into the Fire: In 'Advocate,' Al Pacino takes a walk on the dark side. Luckily, he's no stranger to these mean streets, Jack Matthews (1997) NY Daily News: Eye on evil in 'Devil's Advocate,' Taylor Hackford takes Satan to Court, Denis Hamill (1997) ScreenRant: Charlize Theron Details Exhausting Method Acting On Devil's Advocate, Amy Halloran, (2022) NY Times: Sculpture In a Movie Leads to Suit, Gustave Niebuhur (1997) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Pride comes before the fall -- and since it's already November, that means we're already late! But as Modern Satanists, what does pride, in all of its myriad forms, mean to us, and how can we celebrate it most meaningfully? SHOW LINKS Simone's "Creepy Bay Area" streaming special Awful Announcing: The danger of Kyrie Irving's flat-Eartherism was ignored by the media in 2017, Velodus (2022) Online Etymology Dictionary: "Pride" Queer Theology: The Sin of Pride, Fr. Shannon Kearns The Conversation: Is pride a vice or a virtue? A psychologist explains, Neil McLatchie (2017) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hume's Moral Philosophy, Rachel Cohon (2004) Bustle: This Is Why It's Called Pride, Marissa Higgins (2016) Satanic Bay Area's Feel the Burn Blog: Straightening Out "Straight Pride", Daniel Walker (2019) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

For as long as humans have believed in mysticism we've been eager to know what the future holds, but modern religions are always hot to deal fortune telling to the devil. To help us learn more about why everyone is so afraid of making a psychic connection, we're joined by Shiva Honey. SHOW LINKS Shiva Honey's Serpentinae website and shop, Instagram, and Facebook York Dispatch: No One Wants Satanic Temple Money Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Divination, Diana Santo (2019) The Historical Significance of Fortune-Telling, Cody Delistraty (2016) The Devil's Art, by Joseph Phillip Coy (2020) Theological Examination of Necromancy, Ebenezer Tetteh Fiorgbor, Emmanuel Kojo, et al (2017) The Origins of Necromancy or How We Learned to Speak to the Dead, Andrej Kapcár (2015) Moda Chicago: A Visual History of Tarot Cards, Vivian L Collector's Weekly: Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World's Most Misunderstood Cards, Hunter Oatman-Stanford (2014) The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite (1911) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're created some monsters -- or so they say. Just in time for Halloween, we're going to decrypt the Satanic legend-making over American cryptids, with the help of Karen and Blake from the long-running skeptics' podcast, MonsterTalk. SHOW LINKS MonsterTalk: website, Twitter, and Facebook The Conversation: The monster festival – a pilgrimage to small town America, Joe Laycock (2018) Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program, by James T Lacatski D.Eng., Colm A Kelleher Ph.D., George Knapp (2021) Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, by Daniel Loxton (2012) Journal of Mormon History: A Mormon Bigfoot, Matthew Bowman (2007) Western Folklore: "New" Legends: Some Perspectives from Anthropology, Phillips Stevens Jr. (1990) Aztlan Magazine: Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, William Nericcio (2012) What Happens Next: Contemporary Urban Legends & Popular Culture, by Gail de Vos (2012) Ten Disturbing Dogman Sightings of the American Midwest, Aaron Fox (2021) LA Times: At Remote Forest Lake Monstrous Legends Spawn, Jason Song (2001) Jersey Devil: The History of an American Cryptid, Carolyn Cox (2018) New York Times: Ministers Plan Their Own Encounters, Matt Richtell (1997) GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Satanic Bay Area has our very own Satanic 'Chick' Tract celebrating the real history of Halloween, but the actual Jack Chick spent decades hatching fabrications about our favorite holiday. To help us with some of these comic misconceptions, we welcome Satanic artist Jason Lenox back to the show. SHOW LINKS Lenox Art Emporium Satanic Bay Area's Halloween "Chick" Tract -- Preorder now! NPR: Christian Majority To End Women Write About Comics: Jack Chick's Unhappy Halloween Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, by Kier-La Janisse, Paul Corupe Snopes: Cat O Nine Tales University at Albany: Origins of Halloween Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Did Druids Perform Human Sacrifice? Snopes: Pins & Needles Vox: The Myth of Poison Candy Learn Religions: Samhain Is Not a God Smothsonian: History of Trick Or Treating GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In past episodes we've added such creatures as goats, cats, and everyday snakes to our Mephistophelean menagerie, but today… Here there be dragons. We're making the biggest addition ever – in more ways than one. We explore the history of devilish dragons and why these mythical monsters are so often associated with Satan. SHOW LINKS Satanic Bay Area: Preorder our Halloween parody tract! San Francisco's best haunt: Terror Vault PopCrush: Mom Slammed Over Satanic Party Follow David's adults-only voice work at his Twitter The Penguin Book of Dragons, Scott G Bruce (2021) The Firedrake In Beowulf, Alan K Brown (1980) (info from Wikipedia) Natural History, Pliny the Elder (77 CE) Book of Beasts, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764, The Bodleian Library The Bible - New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, Daniel 14 Early Jewish Writings, Bel & the Dragon Beowulf: An Introduction, RW Chambers (1921) The Monsters & the Critics, JRR Tolkien (1936) Dragons and Dragon Lore, Ernest Ingersoll (1928) WorldHistory.biz, St George & the Crusades, Samantha JE Riches (2015) St. George and the Dragon: Introduction, Whatley, Thompson, & Upchurch (2004) YouTube: Dragon Size comparison Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley (2020) Dragons: The Modern Infestation, Pamela Wharton Blanpied (1997) Reddit: How to spot a dragon using an illusion spell GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

On your MARKS, get set, go! We all know those fateful numbers 6-6-6 by heart, but most people's assumptions about what they really mean don't add up. To help us decipher this inscrutable integer, we're joined by Beverly, longtime record-breaking member of our own Mark of the Beast club. SHOW LINKS Only Sky: After legal threats, Kansas school board repeals 'Satanism' ban in dress code Revelation 13 Against Heresies, Irenaeus (180 CE) A Commentary Critical & Explanatory of the Entire Bible: Revelation 13, Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown (1876) International Bible Commentary, William Farmer (1998) The Antichrist: A New Biography, Philip Almond (2020) The Late, Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey (1970) Naming the Antichrist, Robert Fuller (1995) LA Review of Books: The Desperate Search For the Mark of the Beast, Anna Merlan (2019) The Conversation: No, the COVID Vaccine Is Not the Mark of the Beast, Eric Vanden Eykel, (2021) YouTube: Watch out for 666! YouTube: Kathy Don't Go! GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

For five years here at Black Mass Appeal we've strived to pass around the fruit of knowledge and answer everyone's questions about Satanism, Satanists and non-Satanists alike. But we can't reach everyone, and some people have instead gone looking for wisdom on the wrong places, like Quora and the dearly departed Yahoo Answers. So today we're answering the burning questions that nobody asked us… but probably should have. SHOW LINKS New Yorker: Farewell, Global Liberal Cannibalistic Pedophile Conspiracy!, Robert Carlock (2022) Ashema Deva's online store GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!