9. The famous pentagram logo depicts Baphomet, who dates back to the Knights Templar
You’re no doubt familiar with the Church’s goat-pentagram logo, known as the Sigil of Baphomet, from high-school exercise books and films, but its history is surprisingly ancient. The word ‘Baphomet’ first appears in a letter from 1098 which (falsely) accuses the Knights Templar of invoking the demon to help them in battle, and worshipping Baphomet was one of the main crimes for which the order was decimated by Pope Clement V in the 14th century. Baphomet took bipedal-goat form in the occultist Éliphas Lévi’s 19th-century illustration, which draws on earlier associations of goats with Satan and the Greek god, Pan.