John Smith (a pseudonym) thoroughly documented in his 2001 article Hypocrisy, Plagiarism and LaVey, how Anton LaVey, the Jewish founder of the Church of Satan, when "writing" his The Satanic Bible, had "without so much as a footnote or bibliographic reference" plagiarised significant portions from the 1896 book The Might Is Right. LaVey also pilfered the inverted pentagram/goat head symbol from early occultists, and then tried to copy-write it!
Mainly due to LaVey's plagiarism, the inverted pentagram symbol, with or without the goat's head, is now mostly commonly associated with satanism (of one form or another). But the inverted pentagram is also an ancient Jewish symbol, and is found in the ruins of an 4th/5th century A.D. synagogue in Capernaum, Israel.
The Jewish Encyclopaedia Volume VIII, New York: Ktav Publishing House. before 1906, p.252
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