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On this season, we'll be exploring the moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy

theories that shape our psychology and culture and why he end up believing them. I'm your

host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American hysteria.

There's power in Satan, one more time.

Parents were actually, saw their child summon a Dungeons and Dragons demons into his room

before he killed himself.

Another scripture says that if you bring an abomination or an accursed thing into your

house, then you will be accursed like it is. Would you say these toys are accursed

to God? Oh, I would guarantee it.

The original Hebrew translation of the word Satan refers to an adversary, or more directly,

one who throws something across one's path. In the Bible, the word Satan can certainly refer

to the Satan, the actual character of the devil himself, but just as often also refers

to A Satan, to whatever challenges you as you move through your life's journey.

The entity of Satan, often seen as the fallen angel Lucifer, one who rejected the authority

of God, has long been the symbol of the world's ultimate evil, the evil beyond humanity

itself, the pain, the suffering, the death, and the gravity, all made into a convenient

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