some ethnoreligious groups were (and still are) falsely accused of being satanists, for example: it was believed that wiccans were satanists because the god worshipped by them has horns (a trait commonly associated with baphomet, a satanic idol, when in fact it means fertility for wiccans) and due to the demonization of paganism by christians as well, the kurdish yazidi were also accused by muslims and christians alike of being satanists because melek taûs, the central deity in yazidism is similar to iblis (the islamic equivalent of satan), and the afro-brazilian religions umbanda and candomblé were thought to be "satanic" by portuguese colonizers and jesuit missionaries in brazil and its deities ("orishas") deemed to be "demons" purely based on prejudice and racism towards the african slaves and their culture.