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ew geezer says he got it from aleister crowley though i have found no evidence that crowley ever used it this would be a much shorter article if he did gene simmons of kiss used the sign usually thumbs out but sometimes thumbs in starting november 14th 1974 according to his ultimately abandoned patent application from 2017 simmons says it was an homage to spider man he s been broadly mocked for trying to trademark the symbol but to be fair by the mid 70s he had done the most to popularize it in rock circles spidey by the way used the sign since his debut in amazing fantasy 15 in 1962 steve ditko and anton lavey were both fans of ayn rand but i doubt that connection is fruitful here the first use of devil horns of the satanic variety i could find in rock music was from the insert for coven s 1969 album witchcraft destroys minds reaps souls john lennon flashed the horns in publicity pictures for yellow submarine starting in 1967 he did the thumb out and in and palm out and in so who knows what he was going for it s just as likely he was doing the buddhist karana mudra as anything occult some have attributed it to crowley but again i haven t found evidence of crowley using it origins the sign of the horns being a symbol of protection in europe goes back to at least the middle ages though with no devilish connotations i assumed the satanic adjacent usage had some kind of heritage prior anton lavey but had the hardest time tracking that down i assumed aleister crowley had used it and part of me still thinks he must have and i just can t find it but i came up empty here are all the occult traditions that don t use the metal sign of the horns aleister crowley oto golden dawn templars the hellfire club theosophy rosicrucianism christian claims of black sabbaths or black masses kabballah éliphas lévi montague summers sabine baring gould or kenneth anger i found dubious 21st century graphics on pintrest that link it to the bavarian illuminati and enochian magic but i can t confirm it with a pre 21st century source dennis wheatley didn t use it until 1970 s gateway to hell and then it was more of the folk use i m making the assumption that lavey wasn t a secret initiate of some ancient tradition and that he got his rituals and symbolism from occult books and pop culture he s pretty generous with his sources such as joris karl huysmans là bas for his satanic mass but not much on the sign of the horns i say not much because he explains on the joe pyne show 1970 according to the american satan documentary october 28th 1967 according to tv guide though he may have appeared twice that the sign is used to curse people this is after appearing to zap everyone with a curse and saying he was blessing them maybe the meaning for him evolved over time or this is an example of satanic inversion or more likely that he was fooling around cursing everyone and just told a fib lavey s sources include popular occult books fiction and non fiction i keyword searched through dozens of occult texts from the 19th century on the first explicit mention of the sign of the horns hand symbol having satanic meaning is from 1970 s the second coming satanism in america by arthur lyons the sign of the horns is a traditional satanic greeting sign between initiates the sign is of unknown antiquity but probably does not date back further than the 13th or 14th century when satan was assigned his goat like attributes since the greeting is used between brothers of the left hand path the left hand is always used the accompanying picture is the too sweet variation used by wrestling stable nwo and turkish right wing terrorist group the grey wolves it also doesn t appear in any fictional accounts of satanism that i ve found until the october 6 1966 airing of the village of fear episode of british tv show adam adamant lives the timing here makes it unlikely that lavey or the bbc influenced each other and i m honestly more baffled by the adamant appearance i couldn t find another filmed satanic sign of the horns until 1969 other signs of the horns mind you this just covers the index and pinkie finger up brand of sign of the horns devil pre 1966 i ve found several alternate hand signs associated with horns and devil worship aleister crowley had the symbol vir pater amoun attitude of pan or bacchus shown here in a 1911 photo described thusly vir man the feet being together the hands with clenched fingers and thumbs thrust out forwards are held to the temples the head is then bowed and pushed out as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast attitude of pan bacchus etc this was used in the 1916 serial the mysteries of myra the sinister black order use it to hail each other it also makes an appearance in 1970 s the dunwich horror aldous huxley s 1948 novel ape and essence has a futuristic cult of belial worshippers who greet each other raising his hands to his forehead he makes the sign of the horns with extended forefingers christopher lee has a two handed variation in a 1964 episode of the alfred hitchcock hour the sign of satan other fictional variations called the sign of the horns include the fig or i got your nose sign fist with thumb sticking out between index and middle fingers the peace sign and the vulcan live long and prosper v sign some of these turn up in the non fiction texts but never as signifying membership in a satanic sect sign of the devil horns while fictional satanist were using every other possible variation of the sign of the horns descriptions of the italian mano cornuto using the term sign of the devil s horns pop up here and there such as in the april 25 1955 issue of life though it is a less common variation the conflation of good luck sign of the devil horns and different horn themed hand signs signifying devil worship probably set the stage for the two being combined by lavey but we have a smoking gun of sorts the devil in love we know that lavey had a copy of maurice bessy s coffee table book a pictorial history of magic and the supernatural first published in 1961 and lavey cribbed the signal of baphomet originally from this book source satanism today an encyclopedia of religion folklore and popular culture by james r lewis also in a pictorial history this claim about the horned hand it doesn t mention satanism and there are a lot of facts wrong here and in other places of the book but this is the first and only claim that the metal sign of the horns was used as a symbol of recognition between adherents it s a bit off on the source le diable amoureux or the devil in love was a 1772 french novel by jacques cazotte the illustration does not refer to events in the story itself rather to a forward by gérard de nerval in the 1845 and later editions this forward claims that after the book was published cazotte received a visit from a mysterious figure with a grave demeanor his features thinned by study and whose imposing stature was draped in a brown cloak he asked to speak to him privately and when they were left alone the stranger approached cazotte with some bizarre signs such as initiates use to recognize each other cazotte astonished asked him if he was mute and begged him to explain better what he had to say but the other only changed the direction of his signs and engaged in even more enigmatic demonstrations the mysterious figure assumed that cazotte was a high level adept in kaballism illuminati freemasonry due to esoteric secrets revealed in his book an incident i very much doubt the text doesn t describe the bizarre sign and i don t know if nerval came up with it or if it was from the painter édouard de beaumont no indication that either were into the occult though it wouldn t be surprising if they were a member of or familiar with fraternal orders with secret signs and handshakes between this visual representation of the sign of the horns associated with initiate recognition and a different sign of the horns being the call sign of a satanesque cult in ape and essence which lavey mentions in the satanic rituals i think we have his source i m guessing coven got it from the church of satan and it s still a mystery what the adam adamant lives people were up to devil signs in pop culure as we ve seen the first use of the sign of the horns index and pinkie up others down thumb optional that i could find to have an explicitly satanic connection was 1966 with adam adamant lives with the church of satan and coven using it around the same time or shortly after the first non fiction connection was in 1970 in the second coming satanism in america by arthur lyons as quoted above which acted as if that were established fact the first use in fiction i could find was in the 1973 horror porn novel a girl possessed by peggy swenson richard e geis after adam adamant lives the next filmed version i could find was 1969 s witchmaker aka the legend of witch hollow then 1970 porno madam satan 1972 asylum of satan february 14 1973 brought us the tv movie and failed pilot poor devil which has church of satan member sammy davis jr using the sign the same way samantha in bewitched twitched her nose i haven t caught up with the glut of satanic cult movies from the early 70s but by 1975 s devil s rain and kiss making it big the devil horns were getting around i have watched an obscene number of movies with satanists and black masses and these the only ones with the devil horns through the early 70s we get a lot of outstretched palms pointing daggers two finger points and of course a lot of sexy dancing interestingly the earlier films had a voodoo or romani slant to them before becoming explicitly satanic i don t know how one would measure such things but i don t think the satanic connotations of the symbol were truly cemented in the public consciousness until the satanic panic of the late 1980s it was also around that time that metal bands distanced themselves from the devil stuff and we get the lead singer of slayer saying he s a devout catholic posted by trash menace at 2 13 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 30 2025 the vikings 4 trail of blood by neil langholm the vikings 4 trail of blood by neil langholm kenneth bulmer 1976 sphere erik ravenhair returns to the new world to find the settlement gone his band liberates his people including his newly born child and finds that the irish pirates from a previous installment have joined up with natives hostile to raga and his people a couple of capture escape sequences and a rushed battle in the lava field of an erupting volcano finish off this series with this weakest entry from amazon posted by trash menace at 3 26 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 12 2025 elric of melniboné by michael moorcock elric of melniboné by michael moorcock 1972 hutchinson an evil tyrant maybe wants to be marginally less evil his cousin tries to usurp the throne and he gets a magic sword feels like a fix up novel a collection of short stories focused on his origins don t know if the stories later in the chronology were better a couple decent action sequences but mostly visions and prophecies and not much going on in a couple throwaway lines it manages to be more grimdark than most modern stuff i ve read low bar such as it is i m likely in the minority but elric didn t come across as especially goth or rock n roll certainly not as cool as the covers he gets weak without his drugs but it feels more like grandpa needing his heart medication more than keith richards it didn t feel especially elevated psychedelic or intellectual either just standard fantasy with less adventure than his earlier stuff from amazon posted by trash menace at 3 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels elric fantasy saturday december 6 2025 noose by eric red noose by eric red 2018 pinnacle had high hopes for this western written by the man behind the hitcher near dark body parts and others but too many things in a row just didn t ring true minutes after a murder a teenager telegraphs in a bounty of 100 000 and gets it approved about 3 million in today s money the nearest law thinks it s fishy but agrees to paying the sum as plan a and sending a posse to find the suspect for plan b noose is surrounded by a dozen men holding guns on him he escapes by pushing them away all twelve of them jumping on his horse and riding away without getting hit and gaining a considerable distance he does the wire across two lampposts decapitates a rider bit with barbed wire on a ridge no mention what the barbed wire was connected to or where noose could have been hiding to raise the wire how it was raised if he was holding it how did he manage to keep his grip while the wire sliced off the bounty killers head if the wire was held saddle high wouldn t the horse lose its head too or how far behind was this rider from his buddies that they didn t notice until the riderless horse followed them long enough that they couldn t just turn around and see noose rummaging through the corpse s stuff noose gets away again by sliding down an incline the baddies watching from 150 feet away clearly out of rifle range noose does a series of sneak attacks on foot against a group of men on horses on the wyoming plains no mention how he s hiding or slipping away i stopped at this point i was listening to the audiobook thinking i must have missed something and it being too much of a pain to skip back checked the ebook and it flowed even worse everything is big and happens suddenly the two women in the book have female or lady as their first name female marshal or lady criminal felt like an 11 year old wrote it and had none of the character of his films from amazon posted by trash menace at 12 03 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 5 2025 claw 1 day of fury by matthew kirk claw 1 day of fury by matthew kirk angus wells 1983 granada blacksmith tyler wyatt agrees to watch some money in a safe which makes him the target of bandits to stop his father in law from being tortured he brings in his wife who is gang raped in front of him and later murdered wyatt himself has his left hand crushed with a hammer which he replaces with a multi claw prosthetic the origin story is the main tale with some flash forwards of him starting his long trail of revenge pretty basic story wise but nasty and gory in parts the origin stories are usually the weakest looking forward to future installments from amazon posted by trash menace at 11 47 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels claw piccadilly cowboy western tuesday december 2 2025 spur giant soiled doves by dirk fletcher spur giant soiled doves by dirk fletcher 1995 leisure spur mccoy investigates a train robbery with three major items stolen bearer bonds cash 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