Editing Satanic panic (section)

===Origins===
Among the explanations of why the panic occurred when it did, or "took the shape that it did", include 
*Three films that opened and ran near the beginning of the panic having to do with Satanism, namely ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary’s Baby]]'' (1968), ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973), and ''[[The Omen]]'' (1976).<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.6>[[#JPLS2023|Laycock, ''Satanism'', 2023]]: 6 Satanic Panic</ref> According to scholar Joseph Laycock, patients hypnotized by therapists to recover memories of SRA, often "seemed to be recalling scenes from these films".<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.6/>
*The reaction against the surge of [[new religious movements]] (NRMs) in the 1960s due to both the immigration reform allowing missionaries for [[Asian religion]]s, as well as new religions, (including the [[Church of Satan]]), arising from the counterculture of the baby boomer generation. Sometimes called the "cult wars" or "cult scare".<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.6/><ref>D. G. Bromley, “Satanism: The New Cult Scare” in J. T. Richardson, J. Best, and D. G. Bromley (eds.), The Satanism Scare (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 1991), pp. 49–74 (p. 49).</ref> 
*The [[Tate–LaBianca murders]] committed by cult members in the [[Manson Family]] which consisted of "mostly lonely teenagers from broken homes"<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.6/>
* [[Mike Warnke]]'s bestselling 1972 memoir ''The Satan Seller'', in which he claimed to have led a group of 1,500 Satanists that engaged in rape and human sacrifice before he converted to evangelical Christianity. The book was praised by ''Moody Monthly'' and ''The Christian Century''. Two decades later the book was [[Mike Warnke#Investigation and debunking|debunked]] by an evangelical magazine, ''Cornerstone''.<ref name=JPLS2023:sect.6/>