Black Mass

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A Black Mass is a ceremony celebrated by various Satanic groups. Although alleged to have existed for centuries in different forms by Christian sources, only its modern forms are attested, and are intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a Catholic Mass. In the 19th century the Black Mass became popularized in French literature, in books such as Satanism and Witchcraft, by Jules Michelet, and Là-bas, by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Modern revivals began with H.T.F. Rhodes' book The Satanic Mass published in London in 1954, and there is now a range of modern versions of the Black Mass performed by various groups.

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