Black Mass
Devil worship ceremony
A Black Mass is a ritual that parodies the Catholic Mass, traditionally associated with Satanism or devil worship.
The ceremony inverts sacred elements—reciting prayers backward, desecrating the host, using inverted crosses.
Whether such rituals were ever widely practiced or mainly existed in medieval imagination and anti-heretic propaganda remains debated.
The term appears in horror fiction and sensationalized accounts of the occult: The cult was accused of holding Black Masses in the abandoned church.
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Sacramental bread and wine
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