A concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern Europe through the present. It covers such topics as legends of the black mass, hellfire clubs, the Romantic Satanism of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and nineteenth-century occultists who expressed reverence for Satan. It describes modern Satanic religions including the Church of Satan, The Temple of Set, The Order of Nine Angels, The Satanic Temple, and others. It also addresses contemporary Satanic Panic from the 1980s through QAnon.
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But even though early stories of satanic activity were false and functioned as propaganda, they nevertheless laid the groundwork for the later invention of religious Satanism and they continue to influence the satanic milieu today.