"Devil coins" featuring the image of Satan and found at Bath Abbey are proof that the UK was targeted in a legendary multinational prank orchestrated by a mild-mannered Danish art gallery clerk, Knud Langkow, acting on Satanic 'High Priestess Alice Mandragora's behalf.
Sometimes referred to by Scandinavians as "the prank of the century", the elaborate and extraordinary hoax began on the remote Danish island of Anholt. In May 1973, at around the time of a full moon, islanders began finding signs of Satanic rituals in an isolated area they called "the desert". As the Norwegian academic Jesper Aagaard Petersen later wrote - in a paper entitled Operation Mindf***, Viking Edition - there were Polynesian-looking masks, bones wrapped in string, and a fake human head on a stake that was planted in the sand through a child's sandal strap.
The satanic ritual abuse scare was a moral panic that began in the 1980's in North America and lasted throughout much of the 1990's. It was fueled by claims of Satan worship and made up of several components. In 1975 both The Church of Satan/Anton LaVey and Temple of Set/Michael Aquino, provided evidence of actual "Satanists" living and practicing satanical rituals in North America. LaVey was informed early of the occult on-goings on the remote Danish island Anholt.
Anholt is a small Danish island between Denmark and Sweden. The 172 inhabitants all live in a small area to the west. Most of the island consists of a flat, sandy desert - in fact Europe's largest, a historical and geological oddity. It is uninhabited and no building permits are issued.