goat and Satan (Beard, The autobiography of Satan, 1872)
Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. ..." Leviticus 17:7 "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made." 2 Chronicles 11:15 Quote: The second term rendered devil in the Bible is Shoirim, from a root which recalls our word shaggy, and which, denoting what is hairy, what abounds in rough hair, signified a goat as emphatically the hairy being. The satyr is little else than an uglier goat. Indeed, the word satyr is used in our English Version as an equivalent for this Hebrew term. I will transcribe two or three of the passages (in all, forty) in which the word is used in the Old Testament: "Esau my brother is a hairy man" (Gen. xxvii. 11). "The priest shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it" (Lev. iv. 24). "Offer their sacrifice unto devils " (Lev. xv...