 Every culture in the world has its own folklore and within folklore. There are always Nuggets of truth, but before we go any further You know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like also as always a very very very special Thank you to all of our patrons if you would like to join our patron and help support this channel There are links down in the description box below Welcome to esoteric Atlanta and today on mystery Monday We are gonna be talking about the legend of the mass of Saint Sacaire So I know on Friday. I told you guys that your Monday video would be shot on the old camera However, I am attempting to shoot this with the new camera You might notice that I'm a little bit lower than I normally am We're still trying to figure out the lights and how to position this camera and all that jazz But I hope that the picture is better. I hope that my face is Facing you. I know that was a big complaint with the old camera that it couldn't quite get the angle of my face Otherwise, please be patient with us as we try to figure out what works best for this camera with the lights with the set All that boring background stuff that happens when you run a YouTube channel But nonetheless, thank you all for your patience as we learn and grow on this channel All right, let's get started with today's mystery and legend coming from France in 1890 sir James Fraser released a book called the golden bow Now this book really started to develop over time especially from its original release date now There's multiple volumes of sir James Fraser's work now sir James Fraser was known for his academics and his scholarship on things like magic and folklore and spirituality and in fact There are many people that believe sir James Fraser is one of the most important scholars who ever lived His book the golden bow is still in print over a hundred years later in the golden bow one of Frasier's topics is this idea of a thought process why we believe the things we believe and how they evolve over time He had this theory of magic then evolving into religion which then eventually turns into science Now those who have been a part of this channel for a while know that our ancient ancestors did not separate Religion from science the separation of religion in science is more of a modern Perspective on the world around us. I personally believe that our ancestors Knew a thing or two that we don't know and that religion and science do go hand in hand God is science in science is God now from what I understand one of the biggest Differences between magic and religion according to sir James Fraser was that magic was something that someone participated in when they wanted to control the elements or control the world around them Whereas religion was a form of spiritual practice someone engaged in when they wanted to learn how to Accept of the world around them now this concept isn't new to me We know that in the world of spirituality there are white lights and dark lights angels and demon gods Satan There's this dichotomy that's happening not just on the earthly realm on our plane of existence But in the heavens as well and I have studied before that a type of black magic is when you try to change nature and a type of white magic or Light-bearing spirituality is when you learn to work with nature to surrender to God's will And as we dive deeper into the concept of black mass in this total inversion From the Catholic mass we do start to look at these opposing forces of this same idea of a spiritual practice But for two different reasons one service to self in the darker negative side and one service to others and Accepting of divine will on the light side or the side of God well in James Fraser's book of golden bow He speaks about a legend that came from France called the mass of Saint-Sacare Now this was one of the most potent black masses that I have ever heard of But the thing is is sir James Fraser wasn't the first one for scholar to write about this particular legend of this particular mass in fact sir James Fraser quotes John François Blade in his work on studying the folklore around this mass by the way I really hope I'm saying his name right again. I'm not French So I apologize if I did not say the French dudes name right now the legends of this mass Originated in Gascony France, which is right on the southwestern side of France close to the Pyramids on the Atlantic coast This area is known as the Tuscany of France and as I was researching this story. Oh my gosh What a beautiful part of the world I really hope to be able to go there one day and see this magnificent area now the terrifying Legend of this black mass started in the Middle Ages It was rumored amongst the farmers in the area that if you wanted to get Even with your enemy then you would perform this Particular black mass now as I've stated on this channel many many times I myself grew up Presbyterian I come from a background of Protestants yes, my niece and my nephew are being raised Catholic and I am my nephew's godmother However, because I was not raised in the Catholic face There are a lot of things that I might miss in regards to these stories But from what I understand and this is a theory I had heard before is that when one enters of the priesthood This is dating back from the very beginning and of course in the Middle Ages There was no Protestant faith yet that was still to come so everybody in the European world was a form of a Catholic faith well when the priest would go to Priest school to seminary school to learn how to be a Priest they were taught the ways of a magician or a wizard They learned how to invoke certain spiritual forces I do believe this because I do believe that man is Capable of a lot more than we've been taught and I do believe that the powers that be try to separate us and keep the masses Dumb down to their full potential now of course whether you use your techniques of spiritual attunement Positive or negative is totally up to you as we know there are good priests to have a heart of gold that really want to serve humanity and as we know to there are obviously very very Bad priests who do really bad things You see this power of good and evil within the Catholic Church is almost two sides of the same coin this this massive dichotomy again, we know Vatican means the head of a serpent and we know that there's a Lucifer room Directly under the Vatican as well and as we know the Pope we have now with and most of the popes Have pretty much been serviced to self well within the recorded information. We have about this legendary mass It is said that this is one of the most dangerous Black masses that anybody can perform and in fact in some of the sources they call the priest performing this mass a magician it is claimed in some sources that a lot of priests Do know how to perform this mass But most won't because it's so evil that most priests Prefer to stay as far away from this mass as humanly possible And as it said in one of the sources no gold money or fame would ever tempt them into Performing this mass. That's how evil this whole thing is This also makes a lot of sense if you guys can remember from our Friday video Catherine would hire priests to perform the black masses for the French royal court during Louis the 14th's rain So they're definitely going to priest for these black masses It's not like they're there's like a Satan school down the street They can go get a priest from the Satan school No, they're going to the priest in the Catholic Church and bribing them with money to perform these horrifically evil task it is said in these sources that only the most evil of all the priests would be willing to perform these masses and Because these masses were so potent and so evil These priests could not stay in the same town for more than two days because if they were caught Performing these masses then the priests themselves would be executed now Let's say a farmer out in this area in the Middle Ages had an enemy another farmer that they wanted to get rid of they would go and find one of these wickedly evil priests to perform these black masses to cast a spell on Their enemy once they found the priest that was willing to do it Of course the farmer would have to pay a lot of money for the priest to perform this curse on Their sworn enemies Well, then they would have to find an abandoned church and this abandoned church couldn't just be like any old abandoned church There had to be some ruin to it some destruction done to the property of course There had to be bats and owls that lived in the church because why not and Under the altar the person hiring the priest was responsible for placing a bunch of live totes now before the official mass would start the priest would have to enter into this church with his lover his mistress who also Had to work as a prostitute and alone together the two of them would eat a dinner Once the clock struck 11 o'clock the ceremony would begin This is 11 o'clock in the evening of course. It wouldn't be in the middle of the day It would be in the evening at that point the priest would start to recite a mass Backwards during the communion portion of the mask the priest would eat Wafers the communion wafers and in the Catholic Church. So usually round circular wafers, but in this black mass They were black and triangles and instead of consecrated wine The priest would drink water from a well where an unbaptized Baby had been drowned during the mass the priest would also draw a cross on the ground with his left foot and By the time the clock strikes midnight. They have to then start to chant The name of the victim now once the mass was over It was believed that the victim would get really really sick and would start to wither away and die a long And agonizing death that doctors could not diagnose they couldn't figure out what was wrong with this victim Now it is written that there is a counter mass to this mass where you can reverse The curse and put it back on the priest and the person who paid for the mass However, most of the sources didn't didn't write down what that counter mass actually Was now get a title of this mass was the mass of saint's a care This is a very particular style of black mass Now the interesting thing is as I did my research. I couldn't figure out who sick hair was or if sick hair was a Real person like a lot of the saints that are within the Catholic faith I even got on to duck duck go and some of these Better search engines where there's not a lot of censorship and even though I could find more about this mass on duck duck Oh, I still could not find any origins for who this mass is named for So that within itself is a mystery part of me believes that it might be named after potentially the first priest to Allegedly do this mass or maybe it's the name of some demon that somebody chanted at one point I have no idea and it seems a lot of people have no idea either where the name came from Or it could just be a named that evolved over time Within this legend now within my research I couldn't find any actual eyewitness accounts from the Middle Ages to have witnessed any of these masses and Of course, we know that legend snowball on themselves and grow and become wilder and wilder and wilder as time passes We also have to remember that with the Middle Ages. We are coming out of the Dark Ages and I'm sure there were a lot of times where people would get really really sick and Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with them And so maybe that's where the legend came from that they would just accuse it and and say the reason for this death Was because somebody put a hex on them or used this black mass to curse them. However, I'm not so sure As I've said throughout my research the French People especially the Royals have been a lot more open about Their authority figures participating in these types of religious ceremonies way more open than My English background. So in my opinion this folklore had to start somewhere as I said in the opening most folklore has a nugget of truth in it Is there a black mass that somebody witnessed at one time in this area and did that story evolve over time and become the catalyst for anything unexplained that happened to particular people or is it all just simply legend and even scarier if it's not legend is It's still going on today Let me know your thoughts down in the description box below Have you heard of this black mass and if you haven't what do you think? Also, do you know of any other spooky legends about a black mass? Maybe in New Orleans that you would like me to cover. All right guys Thank you once again for being super patient with us as we try to work out this new camera Again as this channel grows Hopefully the equipment will get better and better and better and the quality of production will get even better Once again, thank you so much to Josh McKay for doing our music if you would like to purchase our opening song as always there is a link down in the description box below and Thank you so much to Todd Broderick for helping me get this video out to you guys today and being very patient as You explain the new camera to me Also, if you guys want to check out Todd's band the flying mystics There is a link to their channel down in the description box too All right guys I hope you have a wonderful day and a wonderful week ahead and I will talk to you soon. Bye