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Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard
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Sammy Davis Jr. Becomes the World's First Black Jewish Satanic Warlock
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Picking up from the previous episode, Marcus Parks traces the arc from NBC's TV movie 'Poor Devil' — in which Sammy Davis Jr. played a low-level demon — to Davis's formal induction as the Church of Satan's honorary warlock. Michael Aquino had called the show 'a magnificent commercial for the church,' and Marcus agrees it was genuinely Satanic in its message: focused, justified revenge that hurts only the deserving. Anton LaVey's antenna went up, but he kept his distance out of a pee-shyness about Hollywood. [1] — Marcus Parks "Sammy Davis Jr. didn't just flirt with Satanism — he went all in. Within a month of receiving the Church of Satan's letter, he accepted his…" 04:02 Davis, however, accepted the warlock offer within a month, and on the night of his concert — Friday the 13th, at the Circle Star Theater, a name that encodes a pentagram — he received his Baphomet medallion backstage before nearly 4,000 fans. He went out wearing it on his chest and closed with Sammy's near-Satanic anthem, 'I Gotta Be Me.' Nothing in the world could have made Sammy happier.
Sammy Davis Jr. didn't just flirt with Satanism — he went all in. Within a month of receiving the Church of Satan's letter, he accepted his honorary warlock title and wore the Baphomet medallion on stage in front of 4,000 people on Friday the 13th at the Circle Star Theater. His tame nights were with the Satanists.
Sammy Davis Jr. accepted honorary warlock status from the Church of Satan within a month, receiving a Baphomet medallion backstage before a concert on Friday the 13th.
When Michael Aquino wrote to LaVey excitedly about giving Satanic Bibles to Sammy Davis Jr.'s PR team, LaVey shut it down immediately: ignore the handlers, go directly to the celebrity. It's the most lucid, practical wisdom LaVey ever gave — and it came from a man who never actually followed it himself.
