‘Hail Satan?’: Documentary Examines Protest Group That Bedevils Religious Conservatives

Meet the devil worshipper turned ‘hipster’ vicar. I first got into Satanism when I was My parents are committed Christians and took my sisters and me to church when we were kids.

The Nine Satanic Statements by Anton Szandor LaVey The Nine Satanic Statements originally appeared in The Satanic Bible, © Satan represents.

When I was six years old, I woke up to find a large black wolf standing at the side of my bed. The wolf was staring down at me. With a nod of its head, it directed me to get up. Oddly, I felt no fear as it led me out of my bedroom, into the living room, and onto the couch. The wolf spoke in a calm but authoritative voice, explaining that I was part of its tribe—”One of us,” it said. Then the wolf led me back to my bedroom window, outside of which was an old stone well.

When I looked out, three other wolves surrounded the well. They looked back in my direction. Atop the well, they had presented me the corpse of a slaughtered deer. Then it disappeared. To the outsider, it would be easy to dismiss this vision as nothing more than a false memory, either a recent invention or the rumblings of my six-year-old imagination. But it is the most vivid memory I have of childhood.