Religion: Blasphemy in Milan

Naughty boys, perverts, and the world's few serious Satanists have for centuries amused themselves with much talk and rare observance of the luridly infamous Black Mass. Capable of infinite variation in its pseudo-liturgical mumbo jumbo, the Black Mass usually has as its basic ingredients a consecrated host, an apostate priest, a prostitute and a virgin, combined to achieve a maximum of orgiastic blasphemy.*

Last week the Italian city of Milan buzzed with rumors of a secret society, the "Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country...

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