The Satanic Panic

It’s over thirty years since the Satanic Panic in the UK. So perhaps it is fading from memory. But at the time, things were really scary — and with the current rolling back of various human rights legislation that we have taken for granted for a generation or more, in both the USA and the UK, those times could return.

When I first became a seeker of Wicca in 1989, and for quite a while after I was initiated in 1991, social workers had been rounding up the children of people who were seen...