Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

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!

The hosts discuss the origins and significance of the phrase 'Hail Satan' in a satanic context, the controversy surrounding the Satanic Temple's holiday display at the Illinois state capital, the secularization of Christmas trees, and the influence of 'Rosemary's Baby' on pop culture and the Church of Satan.

“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!

The podcast explores the concept of pride from a modern Satanist perspective. They discuss the recent Halloween Black Mass and ritual performance, the controversial beliefs of basketball player Kyrie Irving, and the complexities of pride. The hosts share personal experiences with Satanism and discuss the origins of pride. They also touch on pumpkin spice, Hume's moral philosophy, self-esteem, the evolution of pride in the LGBTQ+ community, and reflections on Bill Clinton's establishment of Pride Month.

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!