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unusual facts about Church of Satan


Shane Bugbee

In the course of his work, Bugbee has interviewed various well-known individuals, including TV magician Penn Jillette, and Anton LaVey, the High Priest of the Church of Satan.


Deadly Cults

Groups including the Branch Davidians, Church Universal and Triumphant, the Church of Satan, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Unification Church are discussed in the book.

Karla LaVey

The Church of Satan, under the leadership of Blanche Barton, was later moved to New York City, and subsequently transferred over to yet another administration.

It was at this time that Blanche Barton (LaVey’s assistant/biographer who also gave birth to LaVey’s only son, Xerxes) and Karla LaVey announced that they would run the Church of Satan as co-High Priestesses.


see also

Black Pope

Anton LaVey, newspaper nickname of the Church of Satan founder

Blanche Barton

A settlement was later reached in which Anton LaVey’s belongings, writings, and royalties would be split among his three children, Karla, Zeena and Satan, and that Barton would receive the “corporation known as Church of Satan.”

Several days later Barton produced a hand written will claiming that LaVey had left all of his belongings, property, writings, and royalties, including the Church of Satan to be put in a trust, exclusively for Barton's son Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey, managed by Barton.

Diane Hegarty

Their daughter Zeena Schreck was in the media spotlight at age 3, at her Satanic baptism, and again defending the Church of Satan against allegations of Satanic ritual abuse as public representative and High Priestess of the Church of Satan between 1985-1990 during the 1980s Satanic panic, the politically motivated Christian fundamentalist witch-hunts in America.

LaVeyan Satanism

The event was documented, and many members of the Church of Satan were interviewed, by the BBC with permission.