Roman Catholic descriptions of Satanic Rites practiced by their Opponents

For 2000 years, the Roman Catholic Church has written (in Latin) about its opponents, and in particular about the servants of the Devil. During the beginning of Christianity, there were many arguments and discussions with gnostics and with pagans, both of which were described as worshiping the Devil. Later, in the Middle Ages, the Church wrote about heretics, witchcraft, and blasphemous groups within its own ranks.

Marci Minucii Felicis Octavius
(A Roman pagan in 200 AD describes the rituals of Christians as worshiping the head of an ass, worshiping an instrument used to kill a wicked man [i.e. Jesus and a wooden cross], and having sexual orgies at the end of the rituals. Sometimes seen as the first outline of a Black Mass.)

De Haeresibus
(Augustine of Hippo 354-430, describes a ritual performed by a group he calls Catharistas, in which flour is placed beneath a man and a women during sexual intercourse, so that their sexual fluids may be mixed with the flour to be used in making a Host, which was then believed to contain the spiritual light.)

Malleus Maleficarum
(Instructions for witch-hunters; printed in Latin in Germany in 1487.)

Compendium Maleficarum
(Descriptions of Pacts with the Devil and the Witches Sabbat where Satan was worshipped; printed in Latin in Italy in 1608.)

Pact with the Devil
(A Pact with Lucifer, used as evidence in the trial of Urbain Grandier, Loudoun, France, 1633)

De Daemonialitate
(Descriptions of sexual relations between witches and demons at the Witches Sabbat, and the children that resulted, which would include the birth of the child of Satan, or the Antichrist; printed in Latin in Italy in 1680.)

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Latin descriptions of Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
(Extensive Latin quotations from original sources that Montague Summers used to document medieval witchcraft in his book The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 1926)

Synagoga Satanae