satanic panic
Demonic conspiracy fears
Satanic panic refers to the moral hysteria of the 1980s and early 1990s when many Americans believed satanic cults were secretly abusing children in daycare centers, schools, and neighborhoods.
The panic produced sensational media coverage, coerced testimony from children, and wrongful convictions—most later overturned.
The term now describes any similar episode of unfounded mass fear about hidden evil: The satanic panic over Dungeons & Dragons seems absurd now.
- spectral evidenceTestimony from supernatural visions
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
- recovered memoryRecalled past forgotten experience
- daycareChild supervision facility
fear · false memories · backmasking · subliminal messages · Dungeons and Dragons · devil worship · pentagram · witch trials · Malleus Maleficarum · scapegoating · talk show · paranoia · fearmongering · child abuse · false accusation · stranger danger · misinformation · evangelical
- Conspiraciesconspiracy, deep state, new world order, chemtrails, flat earth
- fearmongeringscaremongering, fearmongering, scare tactics, fear tactics, alarmism
- mass delusionsmass hysteria, groupthink, mob mentality, herd mentality, witch hunts
- demonologydemons, devil, Satan, Lucifer, Lilith
satanic paniccritical thinking
Objective evaluation of information
measured response · due process · scientific inquiry · dismissiveness
panic, panicky, panics, panicked, panicking, satanism, satanic, satanists, satanically