Rupert Russell believes the UK's 1960s-1970s embrace of Wicca helped give birth to the Satanic Panic when its ideas were co-opted by opportunistic Americans.
Satanic panic has taken over the world of fast food after pictures of devil-themed McDonald’s Happy Meals with Baphomets “offered” to little consumers started circulating last month.
It has been called “Satanic Panic,” and it has made its way into pop culture. Sometimes, pop culture is commenting on this fear of the Christian Devil, but sometimes, it is part of the panic.