Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

It's said one's own birthday is the highest of Satanic holidays, so we're making a wish and diving into the history of these rites of passage with Satanic writer La Carmina; also, a classic American witch finally gets her day in court, and Satanic Bay Area finds its initiative.   SHOW LINKS Ripley's: Last Salem "witch" pardoned thanks to middle schoolers La Carmina's website, Twitter, and Instagram The Satanic Bible, by Anton LaVey (1969) It is about time: Birthdays as modern rites of temporality, Hizky Shoham (2021) The Strange Origins of American Birthday Celebrations, Joe Pinsker (2021) Birthday Parties: A Study of Developmental Change in American Culture, Janice Klein (1981) Rituals enhance consumption, Kathleen D Vohs (2013) Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope, Olivia B. Waxman (2018) How Are Horoscopes Still a Thing?, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (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 TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In 1992, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Lanning published his "Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse." Though many sources today credit Lanning with sinking the Satanic Panic, few people have actually read this conclusions, so today we’re getting to the bottom of a national panic -- and to the bottom of a few drinks. CW: We drink and talk about alcohol throughout the episode; if that's not the content for you, we understand!   SHOW LINKS IOL: South African Satanic Church co-founder explains why he turned his back on Satanism and why he now believes in Christ We Believe The Children, by Richard Beck (2015) U.S. Dept. of Justice: "Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse," Kenneth Lanning (1992)   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!

Nothing says "family friendly" quite like the name Disney, but Disney has always had its dark side. Here to help us with our cell-shaded sins, we have Ryan and James of the Creepy Kingdom podcast network.   SHOW LINKS Creepy Kingdom's website, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Giving the Devil His Due: Satan In Cinema, by JP Telotte (2021) Hell's Bells on YouTube Goddess of Spring on YouTube  Night On Bald Mountain, Michael Clive, Utah Symphony Walt Disney's Fantasia, by John Culhane (1983) Chernobog and Belobog – The Slavic Gods Who Weren’t, Brendan Noble (2020) The Gospel According to Disney, by Mark Pinsky (2004) The Consumption and Destruction of the Female Body in Modern Witch Media, Chankaya Simpson, Guilford College (2022) Overthinking It: Part of Your World, Carolyn Loy (2010) LA Times: Disney Romancing the Devil, Greg Burk (2014) Devil in Disguise: Characterizations of Hades in Children's Media, Morgan E Gray (2013)   ABORTION FUNDS Check out AbortionFunds.org for tons of resources near you -- and if you can, donate! Alabama Cohosh Collaborative Indigenous Women Rising Abortion Fund of Arizona Arkansas Abortion Support Network ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Colorado Doula Project The Brigid Alliance DC Abortion Fund Florida Access Network National Abortion Federation Hotline Chicago Abortion Fund Iowa Abotion Access Fund All-Options Hoosier Abortion Fund Kansas Abortion Fund Kentucky Health Justice Network New Orleans Abortion Fund Safe Abortions For Everyone Maine Baltimore Abortion Fund Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts Reclaim MI WIN Fund South Dakota Access for Every Woman Midwest Access Coalition Missouri Abortion Fund Susan Wicklund Fund Nebraska Abortion Resources Silver State Hope Fund Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire New Jersey Abortion Access Fund Mariposa Fund New York Abortion Access Fund Carolina Abortion Fund North Dakota Women in Need Abortion Access Fund Women Have Options – Ohio Roe Fund Cascades Abortion Support Collective Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choice Women’s Health and Education Fund Abortion Care for Tennessee Lilith Fund Utah Abortion Fund Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom Blue Ridge Abortion Fund Women In Need Fund of Cedar River Clinics Holler Health Justice Options Fund Chelsea’s Fund   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 the return of our podcast-within-a-podcast, Neil Before Pod, this time with John Carpenter's 90s Lovecraftian apocalypse classic, "In The Mouth of Madness."

We're off for the month of June, but we still manage to dig up some more heretical history with the Infernal Dictionary and the BMA'BCs.

We're off for the month of June (way off), but while we recharge our sins we've got some brand new supernatural gossip straight from ye olde Infernal Dictionary to tide you over.

We’re hitting rewind on one of our favorite movies to re-live deliciously. Also, Satanic Bay Area is once again being crafty, and in the news, Bay Area exorcists are confronting their own worse angels. CONTENT WARNING: The news section is a heavy one, dealing with child abuse and child death. If you'd prefer to skip it, the main topic starts 32 minutes into the show.   SHOW LINKS Poltergeists and Paramours (makers of the Black Phillip dress and many other great horror-themed clothes!) News: San Jose Mercury News: 3-year-old girl’s grandfather and uncle arrested in connection with her alleged exorcism death The Verge: The Witch director Robert Eggers talks about bringing Puritan fears to a modern world (2016) The New Yorker: Robert Eggers’s Historical Visions Go Mainstream (2022) Brutal N' Scary: The VVItch is not a Feminist Movie (2020) Hanover College: The Devil, History, and Studia Humanitatis, a lecture by Frank Luttmer (1999)   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!

Everyone remembers their first sleepover seance in grade school, with the help of the Parker Bros’-owned ‘oracle’: the Ouija board. But why are so many people so scared of a party game? We're making contact with the Talking Board Historical Society for more on the old Beelze-Board.   SHOW LINKS Newsweek: Couple Find "Satanic" Objects Talking Board Society website American Quarterly: Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings, R. Laurence Moore (1972) AustinTexas.Gov: Spiritualism In the 19th Century, Katie Keckeisen (2018) American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, by Jan Harold Brunvand (1996) The New Black Magic & the Truth About Ouija, by J Godfrey Raupert (1919) Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis (2000) The Conversation: How the Ouija Board Got Its Reputation, Joe Laycock (2016) Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, by Thomas Allen (2000) Inventor's Digest: Did the Spirits Move Him? (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 TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When we see Satanists and Satanism in media, it’s always the same story: Black cloaks, human sacrifices, and not a lot of authenticity. Today, we’ve singled out some of our favorite fictional works and characters that portray our real Satanic values -– even though none of these are actually supposed to be Satanists.   SHOW LINKS SF Gate: "Raves, Satanic Rituals, and a Journey Into a 130-year-old tunnel," Amanda Bartlett Baphy Official on TikTok The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast Star Wars Fandonm: Princess Leia YouTube: Strategically selected Loki scene (Simone did not pick this, but she approves) YouTube: Over the Garden Wall trailer YouTube: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) YouTube: Rocky trailer (1976) YouTube: The Philosophy of Uncle Iroh YouTube: Demonslayer trailer YouTube: The Untamed trailer YouTube: Wicked on Broadway trailer YouTube: The Vampire Lestat unabridged audio book YouTube: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea clip (1954) YouTube: Discworld's Wyrd Sisters clip GoComics: Calvin & Hobbes GoComics: Garfield YouTube: The Addams Family pilot (1964)   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!

In 1974, Dungeons & Dragons rolled into stores all across America. And without knowing it, the game stirred up some real demons in our culture. Because our Patreon backers demanded it, we’ve got the critical history of demons and devils in D&D, and to help us with these encounters, we’re joined by Dekan Wheeler, dungeonmaster and game industry pro.   SHOW LINKS Eldritch Wizardry, by Gary Gygax (1976) Gods, Demigods, & Heroes, by Robert Kuntz & James Ward (1976) AD&D Monster Manual, by Gary Gygax (1977) The Dragon Magazine #28: “The Politics of Hell,” Alexander von Thorn (1979) Inferno, by Geoff Dale (1980) The Dragon Magazine #91: "Eight Devilish Questions," Ed Greenwood (1984) Screenrant: “Dungeons & Dragons Had To Change Names Over Satanism,” Scott Baird (2020) Trollsmyth: The Changing Aesthetics of D&D (2006) Demons & Devils: The Moral Panic Surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, by Austin Wilson (2019) Dangerous Games, by Joe Laycock (2015)   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!