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When you think about activities commonly seen at a preschool, things like naps, games, and Play-Doh sculptures probably come to mind. One thing that definitely would not is boiling and eating babies at least, not unless you grew up in the 1980s, when reports of daycare centers engaging in satanic rituals were widely circulated and readily believed.
Satanic panic was a phenomenon that swept North America, and at the height of the craze, you basically couldn’t open up the newspaper or turn on the news without hearing about subliminal messages hidden in rock music, pagan symbols in cartoons, or criminal trials involving teachers engaging in human sacrifice. People went to jail for years based on little more than a widespread rumor that the devil’s minions were corrupting and sometimes devouring children. The mass hysteria grew to include Oprah, the Smurfs, and even McDonald’s.
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10 Cities And Towns With Connections To Satanism
Devil worship, the black arts, satanism three different names for the same thing. In most instances, these words tend to fall from the mouths of blowhards who see little red demons in every crack and crevice of popular culture.
But on occasion, these terms do mean something. There are small churches and covens of practicing Satanists throughout the world, while bigger organizations like the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set occasionally get magazine coverage due to their large congregations. Some of the cities on this list are well-known hot spots of blasphemous activity, while others may surprise you.