| 单词 | satanic panic |
| 释义 | > as lemmassatanic panic satanic panic n. public anxiety or alarm in response to supposed widespread satanic worship or satanic abuse (satanic abuse n.), esp. that which emerged in North America during the 1980s and 1990s; (also) an instance of this. ΚΠ 1988 Toronto Star 18 Jan. c1/4 Two little girls testified to being forced to take part in satanic and cannibalistic rites in a local graveyard... Now the Hamilton case is being used by child-care professionals to stir up what I can only call a satanic panic. 1991 Mother Jones July 30/2 The Ingram Case began at a time when satanic panic was rolling through the country in waves of rumor and media hype. 2016 A. Byers in A. Byers & F. Crocco Role-playing Society 25 Though it exploded into prominence in the early 1980s, the Satanic panic had been building slowly since the 1960s, with anxieties about the rise of the counterculture, increasing interest in the occult and ‘New Age’ beliefs.., and the growing number of new religious movements. < as lemmas |
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