The Satanic Panic is an extreme example of how humans are driven by fears.
We are irrationally anxious about very unlikely dangers, meanwhile most of us do things daily that increase risks of preventable causes of death.
The truths about these mass hysteria events and imaginary "Satanic ritual child abuse" crimes can be shared even only as a warning, however repeating the story makes most people actually more likely to think there's some truth in these superstitious and outlandish horror stories.
Many good quality psychological and economic studies have been published on how suddenly seeing something extraordinary causes an avalanche of shock, outrage, and concurrent beliefs in its likelihood - The “Availability Cascade” cognitive bias.
(Think about how white supremacism is spreading partly because all kinds of people keep viewing and sharing ideas in articles that earn those extremists ad revenue.)
Movies, TV, and novels also spread irrational beliefs and fears by popularising fictional stories in their dubious aims to make good content out of bad Logic.
Reality can seem nebulous. Thinking is hard, fear is effortless.
Lions are waiting outside the campsite even if, for example, our tribe is in Utah (for a few denominations, Satanic evil is “real”).
The world is our tribe.
We can appeal to people's fear of being ostracised by our world tribe if we simplify or parody the illogic in batcraptastic fears.
We bond through humour and simplistic dualism, and self-evident human evolutionary truths of biological and physical evidence, not just bonding out of fear of the dark outside our minority's campsite.
