When you are 'goth' do you worship Satan? Why do they wear black, and do they have their own rituals?

Judging by the Goths I know and have known, no, they don't worship Satan. They wear black and that pale makeup and black eyeshadow for the same reasons that hiphop fans wear no belts and have trouble keeping their kecks up, and other people go round looking like Snow-white's dwarfs (with their hoods up in fine weather). They are rebelling against conventional people, and so have to adopt a uniform to show people that they are unconventional and do their own thing. Beatniks and hippies were the same, as are Hells Angels and Mormon missionaries. Going further back, the Puritans did just the same.

goth
n.

1. A style of rock music that often evokes bleak, lugubrious (overly sorrowful or morunful) imagery.
2. A performer or follower of this style of music.

Goth is a genera of music that has a certain dress 'code' and lifestyle. Satan is not a part of the Goth style although a fair amount of Goths deem themselves Vampires.


Original subculture
By the late 1970s, there was a small number of post punk bands in Britain labeled "gothic". However, it was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became its own sub-genre within post punk and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognisable group or movement. The opening of the Batcave in London's Soho in July 1982 might be seen as marking the coming out of this scene (which had briefly been labeled positive punk by the New Musical Express). As one of the most famous meeting points for early goths, it lent its name to the term Batcaver, used to describe old school goths.

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One must think of Dracula or Edgar Allen Poe or even Vincent Price when thinking of a Goth