Much of this criticism came during the period of "Satanic panic," when Satanic ritual abuse was feared to be epidemic.

She attracted the attention and sympathy of evangelical author Johanna Michaelsen, one of the most influential promoters of the Satanic moral panic of the period.

Satanic panic: The creation of a contemporary legend.

These stories became known as the Satanic panic.

During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Bob Larson repeatedly debated, interviewed, and confronted Satanists, during the period known as the Satanic panic.

Ross called this a ridiculous manifestation of the Satanic panic, referred to it as a "Hail Satan Pass", similar to the Hail Mary pass in football, a desperate and unlikely attempt.

Satanic panic may refer to:

Leveritt's book revolves around the central idea that the three teenagers convictions were a result of "Satanic panic" rather than actual evidence.

It was once part of the Satanic panic and beliefs about the Witches' Sabbath.

In her 2012 MA thesis, Danielle Dunbar argues that while influenced by the international Satanism scare, past periods of Satanic panic in South Africa reflected localized periods of political upheaval and social anxiety.