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.

During the 1980s, a moral panic swept across the landscape with the mistaken belief that there were Satanic messages hidden in various games, books, and music that at any moment would corrupt the ...