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A few years later, she released her first album, “The Litanies of Satan,” a rending 30-minute maelstrom of weapons-grade solo voice and electronics.

From New York Times • May 6, 2016

John Zorn Zorn has taken his music on a numerological and symbolical journey into the occult in recent years with albums such as IAO: Music in Sacred Light or the barnstorming Six Litanies for Heliogabalus.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010

The Litanies, the Stations of the Cross, Litany and Prayers at Forty Hours' Devotion, etc., the whole forming a compact volume of two hundred and forty-one pages.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various

Moreover, the common custom of the Church confirms this, since in her Litanies she asks the prayers of the Saints.

From On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Pope, Hugh

All the bishops and priests then prostrated themselves while the Litanies were sung.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)