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14 unusual facts about Satanism


Aeroméxico Flight 576

Flores asserted mystical, religious motives for the hijacking, claiming that the date the hijacking took place was 9/9/09, which is the satanic number 666 upside down.

António Gomes Leal

During his youth took pose poet Bohemian,& Satanism, but with the death of his mother in 1910, he fell in the poverty and converted to Catholicism.

Ghoulies

The Ghoulies films are an American horror-comedy series released throughout the 1980s and 1990s and centered on a group of demons usually summoned by Satanic worshippers.

Iowa State Penitentiary

Iowa State Penitentiary allows inmates to participate in a wide range of religious observations, ranging from Buddhism and Wicca to Satanism.

James Derrick Hale

The son of a Christian minister, Hale was raised in various states in the U.S. and discovered Satanism as a religion at the age of 8.

Li Tobler

The happening included the worshipping of the Four Elements and was claimed as being close to Satanist and Lovecraftian aesthetics.

Nature Trail to Hell

"Nature Trail to Hell" includes a deliberately-hidden backwards message that parodies the idea of satanic backmasking, the idea—perpetuated by alarmist groups in the early '80s—that rock bands were hiding Satanic messages in their songs.

Ormeau Park

The gruesome nature of the murder was such that local press speculated it may have been carried out as part of a Satanic ritual.

Satanism

Gilles de Rais (15th century, France) was a French nobleman who was tried and executed for the murders of hundreds of children in quasi-Satanic rituals.

Secret Messages

This was Jeff Lynne's second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists which led up to early 1980s American congressional hearings (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the "Fire on High" track).

The Ministry of Darkness

Led by The Undertaker, the Ministry was a controversial group with pseudo-Satanic themed storylines, that included rituals and sacrifices.

The Sham Mirrors

Lyrically, the album deals with abstract science fiction-themed subjects, a departure from the Satanic lyrics of earlier work.

Ultramega OK

The songs "665" and "667" are parodies of the idea of Satanic content in rock music, the idea being that if 666 is such a powerful number, then the surrounding numbers must be equally as powerful.

Vampires Are Alive

They accused the song of Satanism and emphasized that it could be misleading and even encourage teenage suicide.


Adolfo Constanzo

Brujería, a death metal band whose lyrics focus on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex and drug smuggling, put a picture of a severed head (later nicknamed Coco Loco) in their album Matando Güeros.

Contemporary Religious Satanism

Contemporary Religious Satanism was a part of Ashgate's series of books on "Controversial New Religions" alongside tomes devoted to religious movements like Wicca and the Order of the Solar Temple.

Satan's Little Helpers

Satan's Little Helpers features the bands trademark theme of Satanism, sex and drugs the lyrical concept also focuses on the crimes of infamous murderers, such as Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jack The Ripper, and Sean Sellers.

The Hookers

The Hookers make extensive use of Satanic, sexual, fantastic and mythological imagery in their lyrics, as well as frequently referencing horror films, Vikings and biker culture.