The Devil has been accused of creating many
things, including rock and roll, Harry Potter,
Dungeons and Dragons, and list-based
Internet infotainment. But you might be
surprised by the things around you that have
been seriously accused of being the diabolical
work of Satan.

10 Forks

There was a great deal of suspicion around
the resemblance of the fork to the Devil’s
pitchfork, which was probably borrowed from
portrayals of Greek and Roman gods. It would be a few centuries until the fork was accepted in Europe, and even then, it was considered suspicious or effeminate by many for a long time. England’s first fork enthusiast, Thomas Coryat, was mocked for his praise for the fork, which he saw as more sanitary. He was dubbed “Furcifer,” a Latin neologism that means “fork-bearer” and sounds suspiciously similar to “Lucifer.”

9 Musical Instruments
There is a common belief within Islamic
tradition that musical instruments were
invented by Satan because he was jealous of
the singing voice of Da’ud, or the biblical
David. Within the same tradition, it’s
alternatively stated that Tubal, a descendant
of Cain, invented the lute, tambourine, and
flute. A Syrian tradition holds that the
instruments were invented by the daughters of Cain to celebrate the death of Abel. While
other Muslims claim that there are no outright prohibitions of music in the Quran or had it's and that it can be performed for the glory of God, ultra conservative interpretations hold all music to be haram.


8 Socialism
While there is a venerable tradition of Christian socialism, and some see left-wing ideology as a reflection of the teachings of Jesus , some right-wing Christians believe that socialism has its roots in the machinations of Satan.

Proponents of socialism being the work of the
Devil highlight the rejection of God in the
writings of anarchists like Bakunin and
Proudhon, as well as the anti-God poetry of a
young Karl Marx. Bakunin wrote, “In this
revolution we will have to awaken the Devil in the people, to stir up the basest passions. Our mission is to destroy, not to edify. The passion of destruction is a creative passion.”
Proudhon, meanwhile, was more direct:
Come, Satan, come, thou the calumniated of
priests and of kings! Let me embrace thee, let me press thee to my bosom! Long is it that I have known thee, and long hast thou known me!
Thy works, O blessed one of my heart! not
always are they beautiful and good; but they
alone give a meaning to the universe, and save it from absurdity. What would man be without thee? A beast.


7 Smoking
The Spaniards were initially alarmed and
confused by tobacco. Columbus was
unimpressed when he was given it as a gift by natives, later complaining that for some of his men, “It was not within their power to refrain from indulging in the habit.” The first Spaniards to actually see natives smoking were reportedly interpreter Luis de Torres and seaman Rodrigo de Jerez, who soon took up the habit himself. In 1498, Jerez took six
crates of tobacco leaves back to Barcelona,
but his habit of breathing smoke alarmed the
locals, who suspected the Devil was at work.
Jerez was then arrested by the Inquisition and spent the next several years in prison.
King James I considered tobacco an invention
of the Devil, writing a screed called “A
Counterblaste to Tobacco,” calling it a
disgusting habit of godless savages and
worse—of Frenchmen and Spaniards. Smoking was considered a deadly sin in Russia and the Middle East, and Pope Clement VIII threatened anyone smoking in a holy place with excommunication .


6 The Telephone
Writer Ambrose Bierce once defined the
telephone as “an invention of the devil which
abrogates some of the advantages of making
a disagreeable person keep his distance.” He
was being satirical, but when the telephone
was invented, there were many who viewed it with suspicion and suspected a diabolical
origin. When the telephone was first
introduced in Sweden, many rural folks feared it was magical and that telephone wires would attract lightning or evil spirits. Preachers outright decried the telephone as an instrument of the Devil, and lines were often pulled down or sabotaged by irate farmers.


5 Dice
It is perhaps not particularly surprising that
gambling was decried as a great sin in the
Middle Ages. It was seen as encouraging
blasphemy and idolatry, and some gamblers
were said to substitute the name of Decius,
the god of dice, in place of God in prayers.
According to writer Bernadette Paton, the
Sienese friars believed that dicing was a form
of satanic worship and that gamblers would
“obey the will of the dice above that of God.”
John Mirk, a 14th-century English prior,
concurred, saying, “What shall we say of the
priest who, while flinging the dice upon the
gambling table, at the same time flings his
soul to the Devil! He makes of the gaming
table an altar for himself, upon which he
offers up the goods of the Church to the Devil and the goods of others too. With false oaths and other crafts of deception he toils to win profit.”


4 The Smurfs
During the 1980s, rumors spread among the
Jehovah’s Witnesses that the Smurfs were
satanic. In 2008, one person claiming to be a
former Jehovah’s Witness posted on Yahoo!
Answers about hearing rumors of Smurf dolls
making foul-mouthed remarks and coming to
life to bite children. Others claiming to be ex-
Witnesses also mentioned the same rumors
on a Reddit comment thread, along with
another unfounded rumor that the word
“Smurf” meant “demon” in German.
In 2011, televangelist Dorothy Spaulding was
asked a question about whether the My Little
Pony cartoon was satanic, to which she
answered, “I kinda think it is, but I’m not sure.”
She then proceeded to rant about the Smurfs
and their propensity toward Satanic
pentagrams. She also mentioned a child who
had trouble sleeping until their family took all
the Smurf-related sheets, covers, and curtains out of their room and burned them and then anointed the room with holy oils and asked the angels to clear it out.


3 The Cross
Adherents of the Church of the Great God
believe that the symbol of the Cross is not
Christian at all but rather a trick of the Devil
derived from old pagan traditions. The symbol for the Babylonian nature god Tammuz was said to be a Babylonian letter “T,” which resembled a cross. They claim that the cross was not publicly used to symbolize Christianity until the time of Emperor Constantine, implying
that the vision he allegedly saw on the
battlefield came from Satan, not God.
The adherents claim that the Romans had two methods of crucifixion. One involved the stake with a crossbar that we are most familiar with. The other involved tying prisoners to a stake and thrashing them with iron-tipped strips of leather until their flesh was stripped or their entrails visible. They were then forced to drag the stake to a place of execution to be fastened or impaled upon it. They say that the Bible does not clearly state which form of crucifixion Jesus suffered, and besides, why should a method of execution become a religious symbol anyway? The Cross was clearly popularized by Satan to fool the world into worshiping a false symbol .


2 Soccer
According to Nigerian evangelist Evang
Fumilayo Adebayo, the game alternatively
known as “soccer” or “football” was invented
as a form of idolatry by the Devil himself.
After mankind sought to reach Heaven by
building the Tower of Babel, God confused
their languages and scattered them to the
winds, or so the Scriptures say. Soccer is a
game that unites classes, nations, and
religions, with people idolizing their favorite
players and teams. This, she argues, is part of an agenda to create a one-world government and the rise of the Antichrist.
She claims that there is a spirit or god of
soccer, to which there is a temple dedicated in Brazil, and that this spirit is Satan. The spirit is said to bring prosperity and success, but it has a dark secret. She says, “You love football because you have been possessed by the demon of football . Almost everybody in the world had been possessed by this demon— only a few are left out. Many were possessed from the womb or as infants.”
Soccer fandom is a form of idolatry that
encourages immoral behavior and distracts
people from the worship of God. It also
encourages other sins, such as foul language,
violence, anger, gambling, drunkenness,
sorcery, animal sacrifice, and homosexuality.
She refers to the testimony of Ghanaian
teenager Emmanuel Agyarko, who claimed to
have had a vision of football fans and national football teams using charms, oils, and occult rings while being led by bizarre demons through a tunnel leading to eternal Hellfire.


1 Theater
In 1632, a Puritan named William Prynne
wrote Histriomastix: The Player’s Scourge ,
arguing that the theater was a sinful invention
of the Devil. He was particularly incensed by
the waste of quality printing paper for plays
rather than for Christian works: “Some Play-
books since I first undertook this subject, are
growne from Quarto into Folio; which yet
beare so good a price and sale, that I cannot
but with griefe relate it, they are now new
printed in farre better paper than most Octavo
or Quarto Bibles. Shackspeer’s Plaies are
printed in the best Crowne paper far better
than most Bibles.”
Actors and playwrights were “LovePeddler-masters,
ruffians, drunkards, and godless” and were
obviously engaged in acts of Devil worship. He
took a step too far when he referred to
actresses as “whores”; King Charles I’s wife,
Queen Henrietta Maria, had recently performed
in a pastoral masque play. According to a
handwritten note found in a copy of
Histriomastix , “For writing this book, Prynne
was sentenced by the Star Chamber to pay a
fine of £5,000, to be disbarred & to lose his
ears in the pillory .”
In 1910, Pastor Isaac M. Haldeman posted an
advertisement in The New York Times claiming
that theater was an invention of Satan and
boasting he had never seen a play in his life.
He said, “They are out of my life along with
dancing and card playing. All of them are
worldly and do harm .” This made sense, given
his worldview; he also feared the ungodly
influence of a local subway stop and declared
that women’s suffrage would lead to the area
being “flooded with unintelligence,
superstition, and lawlessness, under the
direction of alien

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