Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film, Carrol Lee Fry, Associated University Presse, 2008, pp. 92–98
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition, by Jan Harold Brunvand, ABC-CLIO, 31 Jul 2012 pp. 694–695
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis, University Press of Kentucky p. 125 In discussing myths about groups accused of Satanism, "...such myths are already pervasive in Western culture, and the development of the modern "Satanic Scare" would be impossible to explain without showing how these myths helped organize concerns and beliefs". Accusations of Satanism are traced from the witch hunts, to the Illuminati, to the Satanic panic in the 1980s, with a distinction made between what modern Satanists believe and what is believed about Satanists.
In many cases, the translators of the Septuagint, the pre-Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible into ancient Greek, chose to render the Hebrew word sâtan as the Greek word διάβολος (diábolos), meaning "opponent" or "accuser".[3][2] This is the root of the modern English word Devil.[2][4] Both the words satanas and diábolos are used interchangeably in the New Testament and in later Christian writings.[2] The Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark both use the word satanas more frequently than diábolos,[2][5] but the Gospel of Matthew uses the word diábolos more frequently and so do the Church FathersJustin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Origen.[2]
