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Black Mass
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English
Noun
Black Mass
en black mass<id:evil ritual><gloss:evil ritual>.
en 1936 Rollo Ahmed The Black Art Long London 101 An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.
en 1965 Attila Zohar Kings Cross Black Magic Sydney Horwitz Publications 30 As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.
Translations
black mass
en Paganism