Editing Satanic Panic (section)

==Meanwhile in Italy==
An interesting side note in this story is what happened in Italy. News from USA media filtered here. Italian culture is a strange duck where "proper intellectuals" think that nothing past the middle ages could have real influence or meaning. Therefore the D&D part was completely skipped.  But the "satanism doing bad stuff to children" kinda took roots. There were some investigations that supposedly uncovered satanist cults abusing children. Something that might surprise you - or really not if you know a thing or two about history - is that basically the only ones to come out and say "wtf is this bullshit about Satan? None of this can be real" was the Catholic Church, of all people. After all the Inquisition were torching exactly the same people putting up this kind of panics in the middle ages (usually). Not so funny, some thirty-odds years later some journalists said "What if we do our job for once?", started digging and found out that there was no real basis and kids were taken from their families on bogus charges. And never fucking returned. The whole thing spawned a trial started in 2020 called "Il caso di Bibbiano" (Bibbiano's case, from the name of one of the towns involved). Really scary stuff on what can happen when media-induced hysteria meets overzealous psychologists.