Rupert Russell on how Wicca inadvertently gave birth to the Satanic Panic: “Transformed in the American context”
Rupert Russell believes the UK's 1960s-1970s embrace of Wicca helped give birth to the Satanic Panic when its ideas were co-opted by opportunistic Americans.
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Nine extraordinary facts about British witchcraft
5. A German bestseller changed the way people felt about witchcraft In 1486, a German clergyman called Heinrich Kramer wrote a book entitled Maleus Mallificarum. The author derided witchcraft ...