The satanic mass
Subtitle: a sociological and criminological study
By: by Henry T.F. Rhodes ; with 4 half-tone and 2 line illustrations
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Satanism; Demonology
Description: An investigation into the history of the Black Mass and Satanic worship, primarily from the Middle Ages to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The antique gods; title: By the deceit of devils; title: The theoreticians; title: The legists; title: Prelude to the mass; title: Sabbat of the goat; title: The black turnip; title: The black mass priests; title: Vain observance; title: 17th-century background; title: The beautiful heretic; title: La Reynie and his police; title: The organizers; title: The Gibourg mass; title: The estate of the clergy; title: Underground; title: The unholy twelve; title: The Franciscan disorder; title: The white mass priests; title: The white magician; title: The last of the Manichaeans; title: Dr. Bataille; title: The man of Provence; title: Great was Diana; title: The confession of Gabriel Jogand; title: The devil and the freemasons; title: The end of the black mass; title: Indefinite conclusion.