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To: Olog-hai
complete with pentagram

These Satanists are a little mixed up. The pentagram is a symbol warding off demons, at least in Goethe's "Faust."

Mephistopheles is trapped in Faust's study by a pentagram, which because it was poorly drawn, Mephistopheles didn't notice when he slipped in.

Then he can't leave, because of the pentagram: "Die Sache sieht jetzt anders aus; der Teufel kann nicht aus dem Haus."

13 posted on 05/05/2014 6:32:19 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

The “upside-down” pentagram was the one associated with devil worship. That notion came from Eliphas Levi, apparently. The goat’s head appeared in the 1800s.


22 posted on 05/05/2014 6:45:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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