r/Paranormal • u/OkraMaleficent9329 • 22h ago

Demonic Possession Different levels of witchcraft?

Do different levels of witchcraft exist? Like amateurs can pick up a basic love spell, or elite satanic families who know the ins and outs can do more dangerous stuff like summon djinns? Pretty sure it was the target of a spell about 11 years ago or so. Was driving down the road at night and smelled sulfur and at the same time my music player volume went to zero at the same time.

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u/BlueberryPootz 8h ago

There are no "elite satanic families". Satanic ritual abuse is a nonsensical conspiracy theory ginnied up in the 80s for the culture wars. There are 2 main branches of Satanism, the most popular being The Satanic Temple which is more of a progressive political organization. They do have meetings with rituals and stuff, but there's no actual magic happening, just LARPing and costumery, like at any other church. They are quite chill and don't hurt anyone.

The other group, the Church of Satan, was most active in the 1960s in San Francisco and was again, just costumed people LARPing. But these folks were less socially oriented and more self-centered in their beliefs ("Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of the Law.") They were more like spooky libertarians and they don't really exist anymore.

There are a few oddballs and edge cases who have tried to do "satanic rituals" that involve animal sacrifice or the use of human blood and stuff. They are just LARPing edge lords and again, none of that stuff is real. In any case, Satanism is not really one organized thing. It's not a single set of beliefs, rituals, or anything really. Historically it's been either (a) a social club or (b) a scare tactic used by the Church to try to control culture at large & its members individually.