Satanic Panic

 

 

 

 

 

Satanic Panic

 

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Nicky Falkof. (2012). ‘Satan has come Rietfontein’ Race in South Africa’s satanic Panic. Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262961669_%27Satan_has_come_to_Rietfontein%27_Race_in_South_Africa%27s_Satanic_PanicThis article is about the spread of fear about the conspiracy of evil that included most of the white people in South Africa. It was during the falling apart of the apartheid system that this moral Panic was developed. It was believed that the Satanists were everywhere, and they were involved in rape cases, murder, and eating of human flesh. This article was chosen as it examines three different incidences in South Africa that were involved with Satanism. This incident is the Orso murder trial in 1992, the case of the ‘Rietfontein slasher’ in 1992, and the case about alleged possession of a large number of black students in a school in the Atteridgeville township in 1989. It explains the Satanic Panic in South Africa.

1. Aja Romano. (2016). The history of Satanic Panic in the US-and why it’s not over. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained

This article was chosen as it explains the history of Satanic Panic in the Us and how it developed from 1970, and why it is not yet over now. It explains the rise of it in 1970 and the growing fear in the American neighborhood in 1980. It was chosen from the articles that well explains the rise of the satanic ritual abuse in the same year. This article connects the Satanic Panic in the 1980s to the Satanic Panic today. It also explains the continuity of the trials that continues up to today about the events that brought about the Satanic Panic.

1. Ben Riggs. (2016). How D&D writers fought the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Geek & Sundry. https://geekandsundry.com/how-dd-writers-fought-the-satanic-panic/

The article is about the people who worked for the company that published ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ dealt with the changes in Satanism, suicide, and sorcery that swirled around the game. The article is chosen as it explains the connection of Satanic Panic with the gaming world. It explains how the TSR connected with the Satanic Panic and the steps they took to try and clamp down the moral Panic in the 1990s. It explains how the company defended its games as just but classic imagination games. It is chosen as it best explains the events that brought to the controversy of children being involved in the Satanic Panic.

1. Jeffrey S. Victor. (1993). Satanic Panic: the creation of a contemporary legend. Sociology of Religio https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article-abstract/55/3/373/1612931?redirectedFrom=fulltext

This article is an explanation of what Satanic Panic refers to. The book features various subtopics such as multiple personality disorder, local rumor episodes among authors. The article is chosen out of its well explanation of the events that took place during the Satanic Panic. The author brings to bear methods and models from several social sciences. A vast amount of diverse literature is utilized and interrelated.

1. Angela Giuffrida. (2019). Italian ‘Satanic Panic’ case returns to court two decades later. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/23/italian-satanic-panic-victim-hopes-to-clear-his-name-in-court

The article is about the Italian courts’ case that involved several families about children who had been involved in Satanism. Federico Scott and his wife were jailed, and their children were taken into social facilities. The book is chosen as it magnifies the exact events around the beginning of Satanic Panic in US which cost a whole town its life. The book talks about how different families were separated from their kids. It also talks about the broken families and the severe consequences that followed after these events.

1. Nicky Falkof. (2015). “the devil destroyed us”: Satanism and gender violence in South Africa. Taylor & Francis Online. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2016.1235597?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rfms20

This article is about a young South African woman named Kirsty Theologo, set on fire and left for dead by her colleague students. The killing was said to be associated with Satanism. This article examines different press materials surrounding Kirsty Theologo’s death and her killers’ subsequent arrest and trial. It is chosen as it well explains the relationship between the students in south Africa and the Satanic Panic. It argues that the ongoing moral Panic around Satanism in contemporary South Africa has obscured the often gendered nature of so-called satanic violence.

1. Sarah Hughes. (2017). American monsters: Tabloid media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000. Journal of American Studies. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/american-monsters-tabloid-media-and-the-satanic-panic-19702000/D674D558FA7399E91149BFCAB138792D

This article analyzes the satanic Panic that dominated the media throughout the 1980s. This article involves hundreds of accusations that the devil-worshipping pedophiles were operating the American daycares. This article is chosen out of its specific description and explanation to the family that was associated with the Satanism of the daycare kids. Communities in the country became engaged in trials against central owners. This article explores how the Panic both reflected and shaped a cultural climate dominated by politically active conservatives’ overlapping worldviews.

1. Kieran Fisher. (2019). Remembering when ‘Pokémon ’caused Satanic Panic. Film School Rejects. https://filmschoolrejects.com/pokemon-satanic-panic/

This article describes how ‘Pokémon’ was associated with the Satanic Panic in the 1980s. The doom video games and Marily Manson were used as a scapegoat for the Columbine High School massacre. This article is chosen out of its state of direct explanation to how animations are associated to Satanic Panic. It was believed that Pokémon was responsible for the sneaky scheme to encourage children to practice Satanism and sorcery. Both the people and the churches made accusations against Pokémon. This explains the relationship of the accusation of Satanic Panic with children.

1. Emily Pasiuk, Lisa Bryn Rundle, Ilina Ghosh. (2020). Satanic Panic. CBC news. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/satanic-panic

This article talks about a tiny prairie town swept up in a wave of extraordinary accusations in the early 1990s. The people involved in this town were still haunted by what happened. The article is rich with the information about a local family in Martinsville accused of being a secret satanic cult, abusing children at their daycare and property outside town. This makes it a good work to use in the explaining of the events around Satanic Panic. It explains how the family was affected by this accusation. It also talks about the effects that followed that town and how that case continues today.

1. Jake Rossen. (2016). The devil made them do it: 8 examples of Satanic Panic in the ’80s. Mental Floss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87302/devil-made-them-do-it-8-examples-satanic-panic-80s

This article features different examples of Satanic Panic. Examples feature the Satan’s vessels, the Judas priest trial, the dungeon master, pampers diapers, the McMartin preschool scandal, the Mr. ED message from hell, child sacrifices on Halloween, and the Geraldo incident. This article is chosen due to its broad state of explanation. It gives examples of different events associated with Satanic Panic. It helps in relating the different cases that are still trying to solve this Satanic Panic incidences.