Secaire requires a triangular black host and brackish water drawn from a well in which the corpse of an unbaptized baby has been tossed. At the first stroke of eleven he begins the liturgy of hell is mumbled backward, the canon said with a mow and a sneer he ends just as midnight tolls. The priest must make his way thither late attended only by an acolyte of impure and evil life. The mass is said upon a broken and desecrated altar in some ruined or deserted church where owls hoot and mope and bats flit through the crumbling windows, where toads spit their venom upon the sacred stone. Montague Summers provides a description of it in The History of Witchcraft and Demonology:
Secaire, said to have originated in the Middle Ages in Gascony for the purpose of cursing an enemy to death by a slow, wasting illness. One famous form of the Black Mass was the Mass of St. The service is performed by a defrocked or renegade priest, who wears vestments that are black or the color of dried blood and embroidered with an inverted cross, a goat’s head, or magical symbols. Black candles are substituted for white ones. Urine is sometimes substituted for the holy water used to sprinkle the attendees, urine or water is substituted for the wine, and rotted turnip slices, pieces of black leather, or black triangles are substituted for the host. The purpose is to parody the Catholic Holy Mass by performing it or parts of it backward, inverting the cross, stepping or spitting on the cross, stabbing the host, and performing other sacrilegious acts. There is no single definitive Black Mass ritual.
Black Masses have been performed for centuries and occur in contemporary times, but it is doubtful that they have been as prevalent-or as outrageous-as often claimed. During the Inquisition, witch hunters and Demonologists claimed that witches-or any heretics-frequently performed Black Masses as part of their infernal Sabbats with Demons and the Devil. The Black Mass is an obscene parody of the Catholic Holy Mass at which the Devil is worshipped.
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