Concluding a brief overview of the two main sects of Satanism, Rational and Occult, I will seek to observe the Satanic Panic that occurred in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s and compare it with the Post-Soviet countries of Poland and Lithuania. Through analyzing Jeffery Victor’s book Satanic Panic, along with news articles and court cases, I will document the events that occurred in the United States which began the nationwide phenomena of the satanic cult and it’s media fuel relationship of accusations of crime and child abuse until it’s dwindling in the 1990s. I will then like to compare our nation’s panic with the media panic and crime occurrences in Poland with the aid of work by Rafal Smoczynski and also to the dismissal of issue in Lithuania with work performed by Milda Alisaukiene and the website www.satan.lt.
