SATANISM 🔥💀🔥 HISTORICITY

In examining the latter half of the eighteenth century in Europe, we also find the rise of a new kind of underground devil-worshiping cult, the Satanists. They differed only slightly from the black magicians, for although they intended no direct attack on the Church, they were nonetheless equally dedicated to evil and obscenity. Such cults drew their members from all strata of society and visualized Satan as a kind of invisible Grand Master of their order.

Typical of these were the German Buxen, a band of men and women led by several noblemen, who roamed the coun tryside at night dressed in cloaks and death's head masks. Whole districts lived in fear of these people, who would stop where they chose, practice their Black Mass and necromancy in front of terrified hostages and then disappear into the night. They were not above bloodshed and rape, so the authorities were much hampered in their attempts to capture members by the villagers' fear of reprisals if they talked.

The Buxen — and other organizations like it — was also very fond of using live animals in its sacrificial rites, and signs of its passing were found not only in Germany, but also France, Italy and Austria. One cult of Satanists in northern France even seized a young peasant girl, conducted a ceremony over her naked body and then left her with a wave of their masks-too quick and alert for the authorities who plodded on their trail.

These cults were in many respects the forerunners of today's devil worshipers. Their mobility, their open practicing of the dark arts and their obvious contempt for the law are all elements in twentieth-century Black Magic.

Witchcraft and Black Magic - Peter Haining