Satanic panic

Instead, they were becoming ready to conjure their own.

During the rise of the Satanic Panic and the panic around young people and the occult, which began in the late 1960s, popular slumber party games like Bloody Mary, Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, group seances, and the Ouija board took on a sinister quality in the eyes of parents and moral guardians, a feeling that the so-called witchcraft that had been practiced by European girls in the United States since the 1600s was back with a bloody vengeance.

Recalling those dumb supper rituals girls once used to reveal the spirits of their future husbands, creating a backward dinner may not seem at first to correlate as directly to Bloody Mary as the mirror-based divining methods.

But to me, it feels important to note that the backwardness of the ritual, the flipping of the required feminine custom of making dinner is an inversion that is similar to gazing into a looking glass.

A hundred percent.

And the next book I'm working on is about satanic panic crimes, but this, but this in particular, this like sort of hippie, like it's, and if you look at it narratively, it's 1969.

So this is the end of the sixties.

So we begin the sixties say with the Kennedy election.

And, uh, you know, it sold a lot of papers and it, uh, it, you know, it, it, it, launched a lot of folklore and they're still selling books and still making documentaries about these guys.

And, you know, I guess I'm guilty of that too.

I wrote, you know, I wrote a Zodiac book and, you know, I'm going to write a satanic panic book.

So that's, you know, that's another one that's, you know, is bogus, another bogus sort of, you know, thing that happened that became a media sensation and, you know, ruined lives.

As a matter of fact, I had people calling me a devil worshiper because I was a heavy metal fan.

It was part of the satanic panic thing, but Under all of those bogus accusations like I faced, there were actually real things going on.

But in connection with Blood Road, I learned about something more specific.

I personally spoke with a law enforcement officer back in 1993 who told me about the evidence of That's what the officer told me.

And then I think also with, um, you know, in the sixties and seventies, the interests of many rock and roll groups became very drawn to the occult, the Beatles being one, David Bowie being another, um, Then they started, that started making the pentacle even more of a symbol of counterculture.

The satanic panic didn't help with that at all, with the belief that, you know, the idea of a pentagram being connected with Satanism.

But that was a lot, probably, I mean, that's a big, deep sociological study we could go into.

Yeah.

Yeah, some of the...

I mean, I don't know if we're going to delve into the satanic panic at all.

It might be outside the scope of this one, but...

Well, I think that...

it was.

I don't remember too much going forward as far as the...

the transition from the paranormal fascination to like the satanic panic.

It was almost like the rural purge of the shows in the six, the sixties and seventies.

Right,

which then, of course, spawns satanic panic.

Yeah, all that stuff.

Ginny, are you back on? No, she's still down.

Yeah.

Jeannie, did you have a point before you dropped off? I know you wanted to make a point about something.

Um, well, I was just going to talk about like, and y'all mentioned the satanic panic, right? Which was just, I feel like just around kind of getting started there.

Um, and then the, a lot of, I read a lot of the characters were kind of based on real people.

They're haphazard replacement lines that drain tension from scenes because they're so obviously, and in many cases, clumsily inserted.

So beyond violence and language, horror films dealing with demonic possession, Satanism, or witchcraft sometimes faced additional editorial caution from network standards departments, particularly in regions or eras more sensitive to religious objections, and especially during the so-called Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

All around the world, there's been an increase in the practice of spiritism, fortune-telling, witchcraft, and Satanism.

This video seeks both to warn and inform the viewer about the possible dangers of any involvement with the occult.