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Book Review: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. By Jeffrey S. Victor. Open Court Press, Chicago, 1993, 408 pp., $38.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback)

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Okami, P. Book Review: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. By Jeffrey S. Victor. Open Court Press, Chicago, 1993, 408 pp., $38.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback). Arch Sex Behav 29, 515–519 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001904105851

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