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Will Santa Muerte Spark a New Moral Panic?
Joseph Laycock, scholar and author of “Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism,” examines media coverage of the killing of two boys and one woman over the span of four years in Mexico,...
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Two Kinds of Witchcraft? Resisting Cynicism, False Dilemmas, and Moral Panics.
For several years I’ve been asking the question of what do we do when the men and women accused of “sorcery” and “witchcraft” are no longer “over there” in Africa or the Middle East, and are instead at...
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On Thursday, Religion Dispatches featured a guest editorial from Joseph Laycock, religion scholar and author of “Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism.” Laycock examined the most recent...
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The Action Plan to Stop Christian Witchcraft-Related Child Abuse
The United Kingdom’s Department of Education has released a national action plan for dealing with cases of witchcraft and occult-related abuse of children within religious communities. This comes after...
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Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)
There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to...
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Witch-Hunts, Moral Panics, and Modern Pagans
In North America and the UK the “Satanic” moral panics of the 1980s and 1990s are seen as an unfortunate rement of the recent past. A time when fear of secret “occult” and “Satanic” forces led innocent...
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Updates: UK’s Filters, Satanic Panics, Marie Laveau’s Tomb, and More!
Here are some quick updates on stories previously reported on at The Wild Hunt. In July of last year, I reported on rumblings in the UK over the possibility that new governmental policies over...
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Guest Post: The Slender Man, Fakelore, and Moral Panic
[The following is a guest post from author and journalist Beth Winegarner. Winegarner’s latest book is “The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in The Crossfire and Why Teens Are Taking...
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Nottinghamshire sees increase in Witchcraft complaints
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Eng — An unusual upswing in the number of complaints made to the police in one area of Nottinghamshire is concerning both local and national Pagans. Ashfield North saw 87 calls...
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The World Congress on Moral Panics and the Grey Faction (Part I)
Part one of coverage of the Satanic Temple's World Congress on Moral Panics that was held earlier this month. Continue reading The World Congress on Moral Panics and the Grey Faction (Part I) at The...
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